Example sentences of "[pron] he [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | So although there is not as yet any definitive question , any definitive answer to this same question which was raised by Mr a couple of years ago , it is under consideration and we would hope that the sort of answer which he is hoping for might be forthcoming from that source . |
| 2 | The most comprehensive survey of Nicholson 's art since the exhibition held at the Gulbenkian Foundation , Lisbon , and the Fondacion Juan March , Madrid , in 1987 , it is Lewison 's dress rehearsal for the major retrospective of more than one hundred works which he is organising for the Tate Gallery in the autumn of1994 . |
| 3 | Understandably nervous , and no doubt a little distracted and distraught both with his loved one 's untimely departure and that which he was planning for himself , he resorted without a thought to his habitual method of calming himself down , and lit a Marlboro . |
| 4 | It is perhaps not by chance that the first Greek book to speak extensively about the Jews was written by an adviser of Ptolemy I in the years in which he was campaigning for the conquest of Palestine . |
| 5 | Endill learnt he had been in the army but was told to leave after forgetting who he was fighting for . |
| 6 | He was told to say just who he was working for , or he would have ammonia poured onto the blindfold . |
| 7 | ‘ We know who he was working for , anyway . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Perhaps it is saying something when I tell you he was aiming for the optician 's and ended up in the carpet shop , ’ he said . |
| 9 | I was the one he was looking for , and he was the one I was looking for . ’ |
| 10 | I knew then that what I was telling him he was hearing for the first time . |
| 11 | I told him he was looking for the mother he 'd never had , but of course he would n't listen . |
| 12 | Hagans told him he was waiting for his girlfriend . |
| 13 | ‘ When he told me he was panning for gold , I simply did n't believe it . |
| 14 | Heydrich did not need to file a flight plan — had no intention of so doing-but he strolled to the control tower to tell them he was going for a spin . |
| 15 | ‘ He has been crying out for support for ages , and I am sure that this new opportunity is just what he is looking for . ’ |
| 16 | But Regan wilfully distorts this into the implication that we can never say in advance that a given proposal has been drawn up by an incompetent researcher who does n't know what he is looking for … |
| 17 | The new chief executive of the Munich conglomerate , Heinrich von Pierer , told the Wall Street Journal that he is interested in one or more ‘ strategic partners ’ for Siemens Nixdorf , saying that what he is looking for is joint development and possibly manufacturing of a broad range of hardware with one or more competitors . |
| 18 | ( b ) He must take reasonable steps to explain what he is looking for and the basis of his suspicion ( s.2(3) ( b ) ) . |
| 19 | The social anthropologist can find what he is looking for in either . |
| 20 | I du n no what he 's looking for — maybe he lost summat . |
| 21 | I do n't think he finds what he 's looking for , cos after he looks in all the bins he goes off without taking nothing out . |
| 22 | What he 's looking for is certified numbers , field numbers |
| 23 | Ask him what he 's saving for — is he worried about redundancy ? |
| 24 | The fee was n't much , but Harford wanted a club in the south and that was it — not much consolation for Kendall , who knows he might well have done for Everton what he 's doing for Chelsea , helping to turn them into a real Premier League force . |
| 25 | Just see what he 's doing for Scum nowadays , it makes me sick ! ! ! ! ! |
| 26 | Look what he 's doing for Leeds United nowadays ? |
| 27 | I rather admired what he 's doing for Margaret because , as far as I can see , he 's taking er as she 's not able , as far as I can see , to er exist , to live on her own and he seems to be taking over from elderly parents . |
| 28 | What he 's asking for is that any references to that particular disastrous day is not referred to as Black Wednesday , but in fact as Devaluation Day . |
| 29 | Once the Tunnel opens — or maybe just before it does and before the French realize what 's going on and think up a way to stop it — he 'll sell them for maybe a thousand times what he 's paying for them now . ’ |
| 30 | ca n't do anything about it David we 're getting in touch with Blackpool , summat 's gone wrong somewhere along the line , that 's what he 's waiting for a call |