Example sentences of "[conj] [indef pn] [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | or somebody 's looking for this or somebody 's looking for that |
| 2 | or somebody 's looking for this or somebody 's looking for that |
| 3 | Well a word about next Friday 's match then , that 's the big one , the one that everyone 's waiting for against Kings Lynn . |
| 4 | A series of complex and powerful planetary influences suggest that everyone 's gunning for you this month . |
| 5 | He told me he had heard I was being watched , and that someone was looking for Magwitch . |
| 6 | It is extremely likely , also , that someone was waiting for them at their intended destination . |
| 7 | Thursday the tenth of February on Wednesday the ninth , now this is all on the assumption that everything is going for us |
| 8 | It was , anyway , Norman Tebbit that everybody was waiting for . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's as if everyone is waiting for something , is n't it ? ’ |
| 10 | But if someone 's looking for an unusual night spot On Grace there was , after all , not so very much to be done . |
| 11 | Erm that in fact one of the odd points here is that when a person is convicted , that information is public , but nevertheless as the years go by and indeed er this has been recognized in for instance the rehabilitation of offenders act , it becomes private information and if someone 's looking for a job the fact that he was convicted of an offence many years ago should not be er er relevant . |
| 12 | His voice sounded odd to him , as if someone were speaking for him . |
| 13 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 14 | 1 You work in an estate agency and someone is looking for a property for £30,000 . |
| 15 | In every prima facae case there are always anomalies if somebody is looking for them . ’ |
| 16 | So if if nobody was looking for it or if they were n't used to the machines , examining the machines , they would n't know it was there . |
| 17 | Behaviour which is hard to explain , if one is looking for moral consistency , makes underlying sense , if one thinks in terms of power . |
| 18 | If one were looking for the reasons for the present situation , does my right hon. Friend agree that it has been the departure of the building societies and other lenders from the traditional concept of not lending more than 75 per cent . |
| 19 | It could be argued that the proposed phonemes and ( if one were arguing for the one-phoneme analysis ) have distributions similar to other consonants , while other combinations of plosive plus fricative do not . |
| 20 | I mean and everybody 's looking for that dream amount are n't they . |
| 21 | And everybody was working for Hurley , although most of them did n't know it . |
| 22 | Sir — If anyone is looking for a good cause to support — perhaps as a competitor in the ADT London Marathon , or in some other activity — please remember the NSPCC . |
| 23 | If anyone is looking for an experienced goal scorer he fits the bill . |
| 24 | But nobody is paying for the increasingly large amount of work we do for the childbearing and professional public at large . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Strolling rather than walking he reached the point where the footpath to Trebyan left the road ; it was by no means obvious unless one was looking for it : a ditch , a screen of willows , and a stile all but covered with ivy . |
| 27 | Maybe it 'll lead him to explain that he latched on to lust because something was missing for the moment in your relationship . |
| 28 | SINCE everyone 's gunning for Chancellor Lamont can we expect him to lose his job soon ? |