Example sentences of "[pers pn] be really [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So I 'm really hoping for some sort of sponsorship for the eight months we 're away , ’ she added . |
| 2 | What I 'm really searching for is a bit more evidence from the C , all participants as to why the principle of expanding an exis existing settlement has been rejected , I well appreciate that those who lived in the settlement that was chosen would not like it , but that 's not the point I 'm getting at , is there nothing in this principle of building on what 's there ? |
| 3 | ‘ No , I 'm really looking for the people who told my fortune at the Puck Fair , ’ I said . |
| 4 | Floating voters tend to say things like ‘ Of course , being in carpets , what I 'm really looking for from the parties is a firm pledge on European weaving quotas , ’ and they tend to sound like Hurd and look like Gummer . |
| 5 | I 'm really looking for something similar to the national parks article which appeared on page 19 of the last edition , written in an urgent , campaigning style . |
| 6 | What I 'm really looking for is er the option to take charge of my life myself . |
| 7 | yeah , you know quite hopeful so what I as I say what I 'm really looking for is I 've got a preference for older properties but you know try not to pin myself down to too much at the moment , I 've got about a hundred and thirty to spend so ideally I 'd like a cottage old style but I do need three bedrooms |
| 8 | I 'm really preparing for something . |
| 9 | People can tell : I 'm really longing for them to leave so I can get on with it . ’ |
| 10 | So what I 'm really asking for is full democracy and not the rather closed democracy that we 've been used to in this country er for too long . |
| 11 | you might 've er I mean you did it right , it could 've been a bit stronger though , a bit more punch to it , er punch is n't the right word erm , you know , well okay look what I 'm really asking for Dave is your help , you know , when people ask you to help what would you normally do , you 'd help would n't you ? |
| 12 | ( I was really asking for you ) . |
| 13 | I 'm all dirty , I was really waiting for daddy to come back up . |
| 14 | Could he honestly believe that when I went off to work at nine o'clock each morning I was really heading for some regular-as-clockwork day-long love-nest ? |
| 15 | In fieldwork , you are really looking for anything that might confirm the existence of a ley . |
| 16 | Carl : ‘ No we 've deliberately shied away from doing remixes with Boys Own and so forth , because you 're really asking for a backlash for starters and also so many dance mixes sound really soft , like PWL productions . |
| 17 | Carl : ‘ No we 've deliberately shied away from doing remixes with Boys Own and so forth , because you 're really asking for a backlash for starters and also so many dance mixes sound really soft , like PWL productions . |
| 18 | I do n't know who you 're really working for but it must be a pretty influential organization to have the editor of the New York Times over a barrel . ’ |
| 19 | In order not to disappoint anyone , Celia would explain in her reply that although she was pregnant , she was really looking for an older nanny . |
| 20 | ‘ I need to know , Malamute , ’ she said frostily , and Tammuz knew what she was really asking for was his permission to intrude upon his therapy programme . |
| 21 | We are really looking for original material performed in an original way . ’ |
| 22 | If we are really looking for an archetypal sin offering , we must turn in our Bibles to Leviticus 16 , where Aaron presents two male goats before the Tent of the presence . |
| 23 | ‘ We are really looking for some sort of justice for these people . |
| 24 | That we are really praying for peace and identifying ourselves with peace struggle in Ireland . |
| 25 | ‘ At the end of the day , what we 're really looking for is the right byelection . ’ |
| 26 | How do you work out his total marks which is what we 're really looking for ? |
| 27 | That 's what we 're really looking for , hazardous |
| 28 | I think that what we 're really looking for is a stimulating , exciting involvement of parents , of students , of teachers , of everyone who has an interest in the success of a school , and I think for some years at Cardinal Newman we have been trying to create this open society , which gives access at all levels to all the children and to their parents , and we do n't want to close the society in any shape or form . |
| 29 | That 's what we 're really asking for yes . |
| 30 | So we were really looking for a home for the turbine ( which needed a thirty-foot head of water ) , as well as for ourselves . |