Example sentences of "[verb] we be [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps I 'm being obtuse , but why should our visit to Nice suggest we were shopping for drugs ? |
| 2 | and then we started speaking to this chap and say we were looking for this place where the erm , they sell all this food and so on , what 's the name of the place , he said oh he says it 's finished , so he said you know where the er , we said er where 's somewhere good you know to , to go and have a nice sleep , and he told us about that place up the mountain where we went , where we all went the last time |
| 3 | Right if we were looking for a fifteenth , say we were looking for a fifteenth what would make |
| 4 | She says we are looking for people who can pull a crowd as well as have a bit of fun . |
| 5 | He says we are pressing for compensation for more of these men . |
| 6 | Erm , I 'm not absolutely certain , I ai n't got the keys , I mean we 're waiting for the mortgage to that 's just being decided , draw the contracts after the exchange and er all that lark , but it will be a few weeks . |
| 7 | These proved to be the isolated buccaneer haunts we were looking for , and the hidden source of most of the nation 's sailing prahus and their mariners . |
| 8 | ‘ Do you think Old Fat will guess we 're making for the smoke ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ My morale wo n't be shattered if we do n't win , I suppose we 're going for second place . |
| 10 | Many people believe we are heading for environmental catastrophe unless we radically change the way we live , and the programme is a practical bid to bring about that change in urban areas . |
| 11 | I get embarrassed when I 'm putting out there because so many people keep asking me how long and how many more times do you have to keep saying we 're waiting for the lorry to turn up . |
| 12 | I think people felt we were aiming for this point , but we never had the opportunity to do it before . |
| 13 | Their initial abuse would give way to laughter when they understood we were looking for a prahu which would carry us eastwards . |
| 14 | ‘ By the time I went to Devonshire I knew that there was a real hound , and I knew we were looking for a man and a woman . |
| 15 | Andrew Jackson got a bit nearer what I thought we were asking for with his ‘ Crazy For You ’ from Madonna in support of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party . |
| 16 | We thought we were going for a month or so , until the fighting died down . |
| 17 | ‘ So that means we 're looking for somebody between five and eight ? ’ |
| 18 | I think we 're auditioning for summat when they listen to this . |
| 19 | The only grass that 's well cut is where people cut it themselves outside their own house but , in particular , erm , th I would like to see the supervision of the contract and that we do n't cough up the money unless the job 's done properly because I think we 're paying for a job that 's not being either done at all , or when it is being done it 's not being done well . |
| 20 | What I think we are looking for , in asking for during th was a ratification of the definition of Greater York . |
| 21 | Well they asked for you , and your name , and I said no you were n't in , and then said we 're looking for Joanne . |
| 22 | and he said we 're aiming for five thousand . |
| 23 | So when we went to Stylus Records and Telstar you know they were more than than happy to have because they seemed but I think that at at the start had we been looking for somebody here to take us over probably it would never have happened . |
| 24 | But I shall stop to buy some of those beautiful little slate-green lentils for which the district is famous and which a greedy guest of mine recently proclaimed as good as caviare — and also to telephone to Madame Barattero at the Hotel du Midi at Lamastre to say we are coming for dinner . |
| 25 | Just think , what have we been looking for ? |
| 26 | Volume numbers of Unix-based PC 's are n't there yet and Motif ca n't give us the cash returns we 're looking for with this product ’ . |