Example sentences of "[pron] be [v-ing] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Veronica and I are going to look for mushrooms . ’ |
| 2 | I know I do the same now , but at least now I am getting paid for it every day . ’ |
| 3 | I am writing to apologise for not having been in touch to arrange a time to visit your new editing facility in Wellington Square . |
| 4 | That is why I am writing to ask for your support . |
| 5 | It is for refugees in Britain that I am writing to ask for your help . |
| 6 | I am writing to ask for the co-operation of your Institution in a survey of Language in Teacher Education which is being carried out by the NCLE . |
| 7 | THE Great North Run is nearly upon us , and I am writing to ask for help in finding a runner who is prepared to run for DIAL UK , the National Association of Information and Advice Lines . |
| 8 | In response to your advertisement in the Bedfordshire Reporter , I am writing to apply for the post of secretary/ receptionist . |
| 9 | I am trying to account for the paradox of the sameness of so many accounts , in language , of the strange , the exotic , the new . |
| 10 | First I am going to look for Kathy . |
| 11 | ‘ When you come down to it , I 'm getting paid for farting about all day long , ’ he says . |
| 12 | No yo no I 'm getting paid for it . |
| 13 | Helen 's quiet , Jenny 's quiet ooh I tell you what , I 'm beginning to fall for Jenny actually I have to admit . |
| 14 | ‘ If you think I 'm standing waiting for a charging animal the size of a tank to reach me … how on earth do you grab its nose before it tramples you into the turf ? |
| 15 | With Stella away I 'm having to fend for myself . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm fed up with you Tories , ’ she said , ‘ this time I 'm going to vote for that nice Mrs Williams . |
| 17 | I 'm going to live for as long as this forest remains standing . |
| 18 | I 'm going to live for ever and ever and ever ! ’ |
| 19 | At that moment , hundreds of miles away in Yorkshire , Colin was seeing the secret garden for the first time , and saying , ‘ I 'm going to live for ever and ever and ever ! ’ |
| 20 | I 'm going to live for ever and ever and ever ! ’ |
| 21 | I 'm going to bid for it myself . ’ |
| 22 | " I went to the Charing Cross Road to buy some books I 'm going to need for my studies . " |
| 23 | No actually I went for four to one Oxford , but tonight I 'm going to go for Port Vale two , Oxford United two . |
| 24 | The second leg of our yankee is the eight forty five , well this is a sprint race ; two fifty metres , only erm only go round two bends , and therefore you have to have some erm early pace sort of erm greyhounds , and I 'm going to go for a trap one here , Chair Boy 's Blue , he 's already won plenty over this erm shorter trip . |
| 25 | Well this is a four fifty metre , an A three grade and I 'm going to go for trap five , Hippy . |
| 26 | erm She 's having her first race tonight erm under her latest a newish trainer , Bernie Doyle , he 's doing ever so well , his kennel 's really in form erm so I 'm going to go for trap five , Hippy to win erm first time erm at the track tonight , that 's the third leg . |
| 27 | erm And then the twelfth race , the ten twenty , there was just the top erm standard distance event , an A one grade , four fifty metres and I 'm going to go for trap one again , Ambridge Power , trained by Paul Garland , another nice erm nice dog , he 's running really well . |
| 28 | In the second race which is a sprint race , that 's a two bend race , I 'm going to go for trap one , Brook Mead Flash trained by Paul Garland. erm Ideal draw trap one , Brook Mead Flash there for me , dangerous Flashing Sabre in five and Super Zoom in trap two . |
| 29 | And then we come to the sixth race which is the eight forty five , well I 'm going to go for Angie Baby here in trap three , she 's erm a little bit of a kidder but she might have the legs of these , as long as something leads her , she 'll come and erm try and do them on the line , so it 's Angie Baby for me there , erm Ruby Blue in trap six is a danger . |
| 30 | And then we come to race nine , the third leg of our yankee tonight , Radio Oxford 's yankee , that 's in the nine thirty two erm here I 'm going to go for Kerry Limb Gold in trap six erm this one does like the underfoot conditions to be soft , so he 's got it tonight — Kerry Limb Gold then as the third leg of the yankee , nine thirty two . |