Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] 's [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm once the development er that would have been g going into Selby actually goes into the new settlement then it 's me it 's either meeting the new settlement 's er sorry the the it 's either meeting the goals of Greater York , in which case that 's been taken away from Selby , or it 's substituting for Selby . |
| 2 | cos you could , I mean if if she asked you about it , you know , you could just say well honestly I 'm quite , I did n't think you were the kind of person who 'd go for I know , I know that thing is I mean I can see , I can see that she 's going for him because |
| 3 | When we got down to the final paragraph , Ms Green says that all this extra work will mean that more staff will be needed , and that she 's asking for money . |
| 4 | So I do believe in me soul that she 's working for me . |
| 5 | What I 'm trying to say is that it 's providing for people already here that I think should be a major item of population policy , and doing it not in a massive world sense , or even a country , but in particular areas as well . |
| 6 | ‘ But I think that it 's asking for trouble to let the bookies open so late . |
| 7 | He knows that he 's looking for a one-way result . |
| 8 | He says that he 's looking for birds preening or doing something which makes a good composition . |
| 9 | Well let me speak to my brother first but erm give Geoff a call , I know that he 's looking for something . |
| 10 | Erm those sites are subject to other lo locational restrictions and other environmental restrictions and would n't in our view be appropriate for the sort of development that he 's looking for erm a location in in our context anyway generally speaking along the A one corridor . |
| 11 | But Bingham has hinted recently that he 's pushing for a ‘ younger , more mobile midfield ’ — and that will certainly be needed against the run-all-day Republic quartet of Townsend , Keane , Houghton and Staunton . |
| 12 | It 's just that he 's coming for it at three so if I get my camera I want it before three . |
| 13 | ‘ He 's worried about Gairloch so he 's waiting for the vet . ’ |
| 14 | This is one hell of an angry Duchess and she 's looking for trouble . |
| 15 | His mother says it 's not the first time a window has fallen out of a school coach , and she 's calling for action to make the buses safe . |
| 16 | Julie says she was never told about the risk of toxoplasmosis … and she 's calling for all pregnant women to be screened for the infection : |
| 17 | I 'm late , and she 's waiting for me . |
| 18 | The doctor says it 's her only chance , but it 's touch and go , seemingly , and she 's asking for you . ’ |
| 19 | She 's give us twenty tapes and I 'm only tape five and she 's coming for 'em tomorrow . |
| 20 | faxed across to Stansted cos she 's waiting for it |
| 21 | Mm , yeah , sounds like she 's looking for a paid holiday . |
| 22 | Marie looks at me like she 's waiting for me to say something . |
| 23 | I try giving her Coke all the time because she looks like she 's begging for my Coke . |
| 24 | Well she copes because she had the same problem as me with her hands if she 's writing for long , her hands ache , so she can write a longer letter if she types , so I said I , I did n't really , I like a hand written letter best it seems more personal somehow , perhaps they do , having a typed letter means you can send a longer one , they all mean |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | You 're in the nearside lane and you 're going uphill and er you 're trunking away quite nicely , you see a guy coming down in the fast lane , down the hill getting a bit of a roll on , fully laden , and he gets halfway up the hill , he runs out of steam and he 's looking for a hole to get into . |
| 27 | Some feedback now Jeff said okay he 's done this course before and he 's looking for feedback to see the level of his competence at this point , but everybody er I 'm sure you will agree by the end of tomorrow will have got feedback . |
| 28 | Charles Pollard says soft sentencing is letting criminals get off lightly , and he 's calling for urgent reform of the criminal justice system . |
| 29 | A decade on he wants to return to the islands and he 's advertising for a Herefordshire woman to accompany him . |
| 30 | In Hereford and Worcestershire , Conservatives control education decisions , but only by the casting vote of the chairman , and HE 'S standing for re-election as an independent in the county elections , because he 's unhappy about |