Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [v-ing] for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm looking for some smokes to smoke . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm dying for some punch . |
| 3 | I was looking for some short-cut to getting a complete description of who you are . |
| 4 | I was looking the other day , when I was looking for some of these things . |
| 5 | We were just walking away , and I was looking for some sort of rubbish container in which to put the bag of icing sugar , when we suddenly heard all those sirens going , and saw masses of policemen running into the park . |
| 6 | Celery seeds , I was looking for some of those yesterday . |
| 7 | I was hoping for some money , as I was saving frantically to buy the owl for myself . |
| 8 | While I was searching for some Arab property in the area , I had come across three young Palestinians standing beside a shabby food stall on the waterfront . |
| 9 | The medieval period sometimes attracts people who are looking for some general structure for the undergraduate curriculum which goes beyond a mere aggregation of subjects ( see , for example , MacCabe 's 1982 , proposals for a ‘ modern trivium ’ ) . |
| 10 | Their meaning is not easily grasped by those who have spent some time studying the Christian faith , and yet the church still presents these complicated extracts from the Bible and the ASB to people who may never have heard the name of God spoken reverently before , and who are searching for some germ of belief to help them understand the vacuum created by the death of the person they love . |
| 11 | First you are looking for some mystery man called Svend , then it is your sister , but all the time you are taking an inventory of my apartment . ’ |
| 12 | But RSI sufferes who 're hoping for some compensation from their employers are worried the Judge 's ruling may make harm their chances . |
| 13 | ‘ If you 're looking for some kind of … counselling , ’ says Riva , ‘ I 'll ask my father if he knows of anyone who … ’ |
| 14 | I says I 've already told you about it , she says yeah I know she says but you 're going for some petrol tonight , I just wondered if you were coming up for an hour tonight . |
| 15 | They 're the times when when actually look at which ones we 'd use remember the strengths in these some of the biggest yes you can go into greater detail you can see the reaction face to face you 'll get feedback straight away verbal as well as non-verbal er you know immediately what the answer is if there 's if you 're waiting for some sort of reply to it , you 'll have more effect because it 's face to face erm , cheap on material but it 's expensive on time you do n't have a formal written record and it can be very time consuming . |
| 16 | If she 's crying for some other reason like because we 've been quarrelling and she wants to make up but does n't know how to I just put my arms round her and cuddle her and let her cry it out . |
| 17 | She was in pain , but she was taking it out on a complicated Fair Isle jumper that she was knitting for some nephew in Canada . |
| 18 | Did he think she was lying for some reason ? |
| 19 | She was longing for some peace and privacy , believing that now the wedding was over she would slip back into relative obscurity . |
| 20 | Such cheating may take the form of coaching or practice , but it may also take the subtle form of the chemistry teacher who asked the GCE student , ‘ are you sure that is what you want ? ’ when she was asking for some particular potion to complete an experiment in a practical examination , or the American teacher on the same 1987 visit who pointed to a particular answer in a workbook and asked the student to ‘ check that out ’ . |
| 21 | She said that she was waiting for some of her belongings to be sent on , but she 'd supply all her tax and National Insurance details as soon as they came . |
| 22 | WE are looking for some one-cap wonders of soccer this week with a query that wins £25 for Mr F. Stillwell of Basingstoke . |
| 23 | It is thus possible that , just as we are suggesting for some of the other finds at Mycenae , it was taken from Knossos : if so , the implication is that other pieces of statuary and relief carving from Minoan Knossos were also removed — by some Mycenean equivalent of Lord Elgin , perhaps . |
| 24 | at the minute , we 're waiting for some bits for this should be in today . |
| 25 | We 're asking for er communication back with the ship and we 're asking for some straightforward answers from them . |
| 26 | Yeah and then we were looking for some carpeting were n't we ? |
| 27 | In the light of their two powerful flashlights visibility was all that could be wished for and it took them only two minutes to carry out their examination : unless one is looking for some obscure mechanical fault there is very little to look for in an engine-room . |
| 28 | Unix System Labs Inc reportedly had a meeting with SunSelect last week : thinking is they 're looking for some help speeding up their PC emulation . |
| 29 | They 're looking for some purpose for it all and they ca n't find it . ’ |
| 30 | So they 're looking for some money to finance a research fellow at the Hospital . |