Example sentences of "that [pron] be [v-ing] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having signed on and said that she was looking for a job as a research scientist , she was advised that she should think again . |
| 2 | Later in the morning we were able to confirm that she was heading for a port in Southern Ireland . |
| 3 | And , oh I did n't tell you this either that she was going for a promotion ! |
| 4 | It dawned on Folly that she was waiting for a tip and , gathering what she could of her wits , she struggled out of bed to delve in her handbag . |
| 5 | ‘ Do n't say that you are looking for a gilded mare too ! ’ |
| 6 | If you do n't already have goals that you are aiming for a ( at work , at home , and in leisure ) , it is advisable for your to spend some time and work out what you really want to achieve . |
| 7 | Your landlady said you was n't married , that you was waiting for a while . |
| 8 | However , as the real appeal of DTP is in its ability to manipulate pages it 's likely that we are looking for a page makeup product such as PageMaker or its many rivals . |
| 9 | I just wanted to come back on er David Potter 's assertion that we were looking for a a higher allocation under I five and I I thought I 'd specifically covered that point by saying that that was n't what we were looking for because that would n't address the sort of development we 're talking about here . |
| 10 | NSS , in common with virtually every other publication in the country , got its fingers burnt last week as a result of giving too much credence to the pollsters ' consistent message that we were heading for a hung parliament . |
| 11 | Basically this calls for an identification of present requirements and an assessment of likely requirements over the next 5 years , subject to review/upgrading in year 6 ; it may be that our letter conveyed the impression that we were asking for a ‘ 12-year plan ’ , this is not the case . |
| 12 | Lastly , just as people looking for jobs are advised to ask around and find out about prospects through the grapevine rather than from official sources , employers too , where appropriate , can let it be known that they are looking for a certain sort of employee . |
| 13 | As for the Socialists , they have been told so often that they are heading for a total rout that they will actually be relieved if they manage to get the 20 per cent which the last polls were predicting . |
| 14 | This reflected the nature of the environment , the local pride of the individual Australian colonies , and the awareness of the railway builders and architects that they were building for a grander , though then unrealized , future . |
| 15 | McLeish thanked him , scrambled up the embankment , drawing in deep breaths , and walked carefully down the side of the track in the sizeable footsteps of his squad , explaining to them that they were looking for a sharp-edged weapon . |
| 16 | LABOUR 'S health spokesman , Mr Robin Cook , claimed during health questions that eye tests were dropping so steeply since charges were imposed earlier this year that they were heading for a fall of three million , but health minister Mrs Virginia Bottomley said the Government had not yet reviewed the effect of charges . |
| 17 | Siemens AG has now acknowledged that it is looking for a strategic partner for its troubled Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG , which is facing growing woes over the next couple of years now that the German economy is plunging into what threatens to be deep recession . |
| 18 | He knows that he 's looking for a one-way result . |
| 19 | But Bingham has hinted recently that he 's pushing for a ‘ younger , more mobile midfield ’ — and that will certainly be needed against the run-all-day Republic quartet of Townsend , Keane , Houghton and Staunton . |
| 20 | As soon as he sets foot on the elaborate stairway which rises three floors from the dark hall , itself leading off a gloomy cobbled courtyard , he has the feeling that he is leaving for a blessed hour or two his insubstantial world . |
| 21 | A few years later , that sum was awarded to Robert Maxwell for the false suggestion that he was angling for a peerage , while ten times that amount was lavished on Jeffrey Archer in revenge for the suggestion that he had received a sexual favour from a prostitute he had admitted to paying to leave the country . |
| 22 | When , in 1978 , after four years with the company , Al Clark presented himself in Branson 's office to announce that he was leaving for a job with better pay and more responsibility , Branson 's response was to pull a water pistol from his desk and start firing at him , grinning broadly all the while . |
| 23 | He told me how , at one point in his life , presumably in the 1930s , that he was searching for a new purpose and direction in his life ; one offering greater personal fulfilment . |
| 24 | Working as a pageboy in a club in St James 's in the 1930s , he mentioned to a member that he was looking for a better-paid job . |
| 25 | He called the tower , told them he had an emergency and that he was returning for a landing . |