Example sentences of "[conj] he [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They rarely strayed out of Middleton but Solowka remembers with perverse affection a gig at Liverpool University , where he was studying for his degree in environmental biology . |
| 2 | 49 Miss Havisham regrets her ‘ training ’ of Estella and when Pip returns from abroad where he was working for 11 years he finds Estella much changed from her unhappy marriage to the spider . |
| 3 | Maybe there was some difficulty about Lilian 's dress or he was waiting for her to get back from the hairdresser 's . |
| 4 | He knows that he 's looking for a one-way result . |
| 5 | He says that he 's looking for birds preening or doing something which makes a good composition . |
| 6 | Well let me speak to my brother first but erm give Geoff a call , I know that he 's looking for something . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It 's just that he 's coming for it at three so if I get my camera I want it before three . |
| 10 | Sir Terence adds that he is enclosing for Christopher Patten a copy of the rules which the Cabinet Office has issued for the guidance of officials ‘ on such exercises ’ . |
| 11 | As soon as he sets foot on the elaborate stairway which rises three floors from the dark hall , itself leading off a gloomy cobbled courtyard , he has the feeling that he is leaving for a blessed hour or two his insubstantial world . |
| 12 | NICKY MASON , ranked No.5 , showed during England 's outstanding 5-1 victory over the Soviet Union at Worthing on Thursday night that he is pushing for regular inclusion in the England team . |
| 13 | He indicates that he is looking for £150m.The defence division had appeared as a ‘ blot on our copy books ’ , he said — pre-tax profits at the business plunged to £1.5m from £13.2m , and turnover slipped to £425m from the £436.5m of a year ago . |
| 14 | Can anyone expect Mr. Kiechle to stand up and explain everything that he is looking for ? |
| 15 | Sooner or later the searcher will fail to find a registration that he is looking for . |
| 16 | Mr Bryan Gould , the party 's environment spokesman , has already announced that he is standing for both the leadership and deputy leadership . |
| 17 | In April , while on a protracted stay with Janet 's parents in Walsall , she complains of his extremely hard work , and in early May she first states that he is working for Oxford entrance . |
| 18 | It became clear as the Prime Minister 's speech progressed that that is precisely the most that he is playing for . |
| 19 | She was surprised to see that he was struggling for words — something he had not done since the day two years before when her brother Thomas had been murdered by the English . |
| 20 | A few years later , that sum was awarded to Robert Maxwell for the false suggestion that he was angling for a peerage , while ten times that amount was lavished on Jeffrey Archer in revenge for the suggestion that he had received a sexual favour from a prostitute he had admitted to paying to leave the country . |
| 21 | She smiled at him , aware that he was angling for an invitation . |
| 22 | God only knew how he had tried to replace her in his thoughts and in his heart — striking relationships with one woman after another , lurching from one crisis to the next , building his business with her in mind … driving himself like a man demented and amassing a fortune , yet knowing all the time that he was striving for the impossible . |
| 23 | Springsteen was out but there were tell-tale signs that he 'd been ruling the roost and no evidence that he was pining for my return . |
| 24 | He very rarely spoke about business matters to Georgina and decided on reflection against recounting the day 's events except to say that he was leaving for Istanbul in the morning , and would be away for three or four days . |
| 25 | When , in 1978 , after four years with the company , Al Clark presented himself in Branson 's office to announce that he was leaving for a job with better pay and more responsibility , Branson 's response was to pull a water pistol from his desk and start firing at him , grinning broadly all the while . |
| 26 | Fowler , who had been a member of the Cabinet since January 1981 [ see p. 30708 ] , stressed that he was leaving for " family reasons " and that there was no disagreement between him and the Prime Minister , Margaret Thatcher . |
| 27 | He told me how , at one point in his life , presumably in the 1930s , that he was searching for a new purpose and direction in his life ; one offering greater personal fulfilment . |
| 28 | She could see that he was searching for the right words , the very thing that would describe what he had felt , what he had experienced at that moment . |
| 29 | He knew that he was searching for sixteen points of comparison before he could be sure of positive identification . |
| 30 | Working as a pageboy in a club in St James 's in the 1930s , he mentioned to a member that he was looking for a better-paid job . |