Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Foreign Minister Levi told the Knesset ( parliament ) on March 18 : " Those who carried out the murder and those who sent them are destined for a painful punishment . |
| 2 | Aycliffe and I are trying for a way to have the will stand . |
| 3 | ‘ Pettigrew and I are going for a stroll , ’ said Mark , who had been finding the atmosphere of the tea room rather oppressive and not really what he had come to Rome for . |
| 4 | So I let her just pass , and said , ‘ Oh , darling , I am looking for a new ‘ element ’ … ’ ; and after half an hour the manager came back to me and said that she was sitting upstairs weeping . |
| 5 | I am looking for a 2hr 8min pace and I prepared to take it up if it falls below that . ’ |
| 6 | He stormed : ‘ I am looking for a dramatic improvement in our defending . |
| 7 | I am looking for a people who will come on bended knee , |
| 8 | I am looking for a people who will come on bended knee . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , I am looking for a receptionist . |
| 10 | I am looking for a man . ’ |
| 11 | In summary , I am looking for a jacket which is wind and water proof , breathable , looks respectable enough to turn up at the office in , and offers conspicuity . |
| 12 | And can I remind the district planning officers I am looking for a positive contribution from you on Tuesday . |
| 13 | I am looking for a Leeds United match programme … not looking for any particular but I would prefer the most recent or a forthcoming copy . |
| 14 | A very authoritative voice shouted : " Joe , I must come in because I am looking for a wing commander . |
| 15 | Now I am looking for a new start and go on from there . ’ |
| 16 | I am staying for a few days at the Dale End Hotel while I explore the district , and I 'd like to know about the Brownies ' Bridge , as I am to do with Brownies . ’ |
| 17 | I am searching for a pattern . |
| 18 | What I am suggesting for an understanding of the workings of television generic fiction and its associated forms of subjectivity ( or , indeed , of narrative cinema and its subjectivity ) , is that it may be more fruitful if we approach it as an historical development of the complex , theoretical genre of novelistic discourse rather than as a collection of autonomous elementary , historical genres . |
| 19 | ‘ I am prepared for a partition that will not put me to shame before the Arabs ’ they reported him as saying , and he assured me of them , Golda Meir , ‘ that he would not attack the partitioned Jewish State but that he would annex [ Arab ] Palestine . ’ |
| 20 | I am , at present I am applying for a job on the |
| 21 | ‘ Well , that 's an artful way to get me to wait on you , ’ interrupted Sally-Anne frankly , ‘ and I suppose , since you are so cunning , and I am dying for a drink , you might have your way — perhaps a bonus on my wages might be an idea , seeing that I shall be doing this out of hours . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I am asking for a mandate from the supporters and shareholders to put me on the board . ’ |
| 23 | I am arranging for a copy of our submission to the Welsh Affairs Committee to be sent to you . |
| 24 | I am heading for a wilding apple tree I discovered last year — sniffed out , actually , since its lemon-yellow fruits smelt deliciously of quince and scented the air for dozens of yards around . |
| 25 | In denying that bilinguals are special in this respect , I am arguing for an approach to the study of linguistic interactions which bridges the old barrier between " variationist " studies , which deal with social and stylistic variation in " monolingual " , socially stratified speech communities , and " ethnographic " studies of code switching and related phenomena which are normally confined to bilingual or diglossic bidialectal communities . |
| 26 | I am negotiating for an agreement that reflects our national interests and is also in the interests of a wider Europe . |
| 27 | I 'm busting for a pee , back in a sec … ’ |
| 28 | I want you to take that in , I 'm pausing for a little I want you to take it in . |
| 29 | ah look at this mum look I 'm wiping for a pound |
| 30 | I 'm hoping for a part in Superman V — but I 'm not sure I can fly around anymore . ’ |