Example sentences of "[pers pn] 's [verb] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This is one hell of an angry Duchess and she 's looking for trouble . |
| 3 | She 's looking for batter . |
| 4 | You 'd better watch out ; maybe she 's looking for husband number four on this trip . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ She 's screwing for money , Jack . |
| 6 | Well she 's waiting for Home and Away to come on as well . |
| 7 | She 's playing for time now you see . |
| 8 | She 's practising for Catholicism . |
| 9 | Because she 's heading for trouble . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We had that well she 's claiming for loss of earnings , think she 's broke a leg , we do n't know were n't allowed to take a photo bike she had a brand new . |
| 12 | She 's changed for gym already . |
| 13 | Somewhere in the depths of Bell Atlantic Corp , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , Very Long Instruction Word technology is making a resurgence , and this time around it 's destined for use with Sun Microsystems Inc 's Sparc RISC chip . |
| 14 | I suppose it 's striving for immortality , just being different , making your mark . |
| 15 | Available as a desktop package or as a builder kit , it 's scheduled for release this month — prices start at £20,000 for the desktop and builder software combined or £2,000 for the builder kit alone . |
| 16 | It 's built for speed , and at this game no-one 's faster than Bruce . |
| 17 | I can assure you , from some very solid experience , it 's asking for trouble to be obstructive . ’ |
| 18 | In a way , I think it 's asking for trouble … ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It 's asking for trouble when people are being turfed out into the street and have paid to come to a club until 2am . |
| 20 | ‘ But I think that it 's asking for trouble to let the bookies open so late . |
| 21 | It 's a bird , but it 's adapted for flight . |
| 22 | The Ministry of Defence says : ’ Bomb disposal experts clear former military land for building but not if it 's used for agriculture . |
| 23 | It 's a long time before cloth wholly decays — look how long a bag of cement lasts under water when it 's used for emergency repairs to a sea-wall . |
| 24 | The living room has to house some or all of these things and if it 's used for eating has to come up with storage for china , glass and cutlery too . |
| 25 | Unix System Laboratories Inc is now alleging that Berkeley Software Design Inc , the start-up it 's suing for copyright infringement and misappropriating trade secrets ( UX No 392 , 396 , 413 ) , plagiarised Unix line-for-line in portions of its BSD/386 operating system and attempted to cover up some of the copying . |
| 26 | But I wa but I was there for a fortnight and when I came back I , you know it 's preparing for Synod just takes all the time we have somehow and I |
| 27 | He 's hoping for emergency cash for building work and the chance to keep all his students at school . |
| 28 | And then you get lots of other unwelcome knocks on the door — one man who says he 's looking for number 11 , another who says he 's a taxi-driver who 's come to the wrong house — and he probably is but his timing is enough to make you rush about panicking and locking the place up like Fort Knox . |
| 29 | He 's looking for Goshawk Squadron . |
| 30 | 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 . |