Example sentences of "[v-ing] for the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Looking for the Lord 's coming are n't they ? |
| 32 | They arrived in Liverpool after an uneventful railway journey and for the second time in three months Cam walked along the dock wall looking for the Langdale ; but now there was confidence in his stride and eagerness in his face . |
| 33 | I was looking for the Mr because I remembered I said I would be here in this session and I 'd forgotten . |
| 34 | I 'm writing with regard to a letter from Andy Mitchell from Ashington ( Aug ‘ 92 ) , who was looking for help in the preamp/processor direction , and was looking for the Eddie Van Halen , Brian May and the Nuno Bettencourt sounds for his processor . |
| 35 | When she first stood in for Terry Wogan she insisted , ‘ I love standing in for Wogan but I 'm honestly not looking for The Sue Lawley Show with my name in lights and me swooping down a staircase . ’ |
| 36 | ‘ I love standing in for Wogan , but I 'm honestly not looking for The Sue Lawley Show with my name in lights ’ |
| 37 | She wondered whether Amy had been looking for the Julians or for her when she drove down the drive ? |
| 38 | Choice of location for the joint venture company is still up for grabs , the source said , although Hitrail , which is based outside Amsterdam , is lobbying for the Netherlands , while Nynex would like to have it in its own continental back yard in Brussels . |
| 39 | Unlike Mengele , a freelance monster exploiting opportunities only the Nazis could give him , and unlike Teller , so openly fronting for the Pentagon , our anonymous scientist would acknowledge his dreadful error , his responsibility . |
| 40 | Carbon dating for the Altamira caves , a penguin troubles sceptics at the submerged Grotte Henri Cosquer , and the sponge is a give-away at Alave |
| 41 | Some years later he met Mr Parkinson again during a campaign meeting for the Penrith and Borders constituency . |
| 42 | There were also two French anthropologists , a raggedly effete group of Dutch and American missionaries , from opposing Christian denominations politely vying for the Toraja 's attentions , and the splendid Werner Meyer , looking like the Cheshire Cat in safari costume . |
| 43 | ‘ Because he is also searching for the Presley hoard which is in the Volvo . ’ |
| 44 | ‘ We are searching for the Christ Child , ’ said the second king . |
| 45 | He will be searching for the Volvo and with his kind of luck he will no doubt find it . |
| 46 | Chief Justice Hughes , writing for the New Jersey Supreme Court , put it well when he wrote , resting his decision on the fledgling constitutional doctrine of privacy but addressing the wider issue : ‘ We think that the State 's interest [ in the preservation of life ] weakens and the individual 's right of privacy grows as the degree of invasion increases and the prognosis dims . ’ |
| 47 | Another person who was around the scene at the time was Chrissie Hynde who , after Malcolm 's shop and writing for the NME , had really been scuffling around . |
| 48 | She 'd been writing for the NME , about David Cassidy and things like that but it must have been quite a struggle to get by . |
| 49 | The prophet Tawney , now writing for the Manchester Guardian and still committed to an extension of grammar-school opportunities could , on the twenty-first anniversary of Secondary Education for All , write : ‘ Now , at last , the reign of organised torpor masquerading as statesmanship shows signs of ending . ’ |
| 50 | Inevitably , writing for the Cornhill gave him a first experience of the restrictions imposed on authors by the readers of quality magazines , but for the time being he was happy to compromise in the interests of his career . |
| 51 | By the time we were enquiring for the Hacienda Lucinda he was growing in my mind as something wholly evil , as deformed and monstrous as Victor Hugo 's hunchback of Notre Dame without the saving grace of simplicity . |
| 52 | This can too easily move into saving endangered species and not caring for the Minke whales , the Harp seals , or the East African mammals . |
| 53 | Morecambe 's John Coleman also scored from the penalty spot , with Karl Thomas ( Witton ) and Simon Rudge ( Altrincham ) replying for the FA . |
| 54 | D-DAY is looming for the BBC chiefs John Birt and Marmaduke Hussey . |
| 55 | Tom Jennings , the marathon running weaver is once again heading for the London marathon . |
| 56 | He later went on to say that he had seen the same man in the vicinity about 5.30 to 6.00 , and that he seemed to be heading for the Oliver 's shop . |
| 57 | We were heading for the Westerman Islands on the far south-east corner of Iceland and a front came in faster than Robin Knox-Johnston , the skipper , had anticipated . |
| 58 | It is believed they were heading for the South Shields area when they disappeared Witness plea : Police have appealed for witnesses to a disturbance in the Albert Street and Princess Square area of central Harrogate on Friday . |
| 59 | The whole detachment set off on 15 March from Siwa in the trucks of John Olivey 's Rhodesian patrol , heading for the Jebel mountains to the south of Benghazi , a journey of 400 miles . |
| 60 | If you 're heading for the Paris Disney during the Easter holidays , how can you beat the queues ? |