Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hands tightly clenched , Gina broke into the slow , seductive future he was forecasting for them . |
| 2 | ANDREW Fitton , the chief executive of Braithwaite , has withdrawn the consortium bid he was preparing for Eagle Trust , the Midlands mini-conglomerate currently under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office and the West Midlands fraud squad . |
| 3 | A car he was heading for to draw his next breath suddenly drove off . |
| 4 | That 's right the tenth replacement depot in Lichfield and they used to come round to Walsall looking for absentees and deserters and they there was actually a shooting match in Street the MPs started firing the guns at these fellas who 'd gone absent without leave , and , but as I understand I remember at the time there was a lot of racism in America then and they , they picked these coloured fellas up and apparently the C O at Lichfield was very much a southern colonel and he was a racist and they used to chain these coloured guys up behind the trucks and make them walk all the way back to Lichfield behind the trucks driving the trucks at walking pace and I understand there was a , a salver , a commemorative salver in the Town Hall to be presented to him , and some an MP in the Council he were looking for this colonel , but as I understand he was court-martialled after the war for racism and so I do n't think he 'd be wanting , wanted to be connected with Walsall any more , so but this was |
| 5 | And I heard Monks say that he 'd seen Oliver in the street , and that he knew at once Oliver was the child he was looking for , although I could n't hear why . |
| 6 | For I have no doubt of the welcome he is preparing for Hector when they meet . |
| 7 | Any one of them could have been the girl he was looking for , with or without a bandage . |
| 8 | And the stone seats beside the fire would be replaced with benches , once Cameron brought the rest of the spare timber he had promised from the linen mill he was building for the Flemyngs at Aberfeldy . |
| 9 | It was some time before Jean-Claude found the place he was looking for . |
| 10 | The place he was making for was at the end of the spit of land and he was driving directly into the sun . |
| 11 | She may just have vital information that will give Bob the lead he 's looking for . ’ |
| 12 | Mr Major will now face a rough ride when he reports to the Commons on the summit tomorrow instead of the cheers of approval he was hoping for . |
| 13 | That day he came into Frank Green 's shop he was looking for me , and his seeing me with you nearly blew the whole thing . |
| 14 | Oxford old boy John Aldridge was looking for his 40th goal of the season … it came just two minutes after Durnin 's … and gave Aldridge the eclub record he was looking for . |
| 15 | The young health correspondent on a new glossy mag he was freelancing for said it could be one of three things . |
| 16 | But when she opened the door of her room he was waiting for her . |
| 17 | In this particular respect Morse ( suggesting the likelihood of the Botley Road area ) had got things quite wrong , for it was at the Hertz ‘ Rent-a-Car ’ offices at the top of the Woodstock Road where Dixon had finally spotted the name he was looking for with all the excitement of a young angler just hooking a heavyweight pike . |
| 18 | The friend he 's looking for served with the Royal Military Police in Austria from . |
| 19 | On this occasion he is posing for us with the ‘ stripper ’ in one of the kilns . |
| 20 | All the same , I ca n't help feeling a little anxious about this relish he is revealing for anarchy . |
| 21 | ‘ This could be the very opening he is looking for . |
| 22 | It may be that the correct account of knowledge does unfortunately give the sceptic the opening he is looking for . |
| 23 | Last night he was heading for London with wife Mona , to collect his Littlewoods cheque . |
| 24 | If you do , then maybe you should give him the chance he is asking for . |
| 25 | If you do , then maybe you should give him the chance he is asking for . |
| 26 | A week he 's going for |
| 27 | He found the paper he was looking for in his briefcase . |
| 28 | Six years later , in 1868 , he needed the poems to complete a volume he was preparing for the printer . |
| 29 | The next time he saw her she was emerging from the very lift he was waiting for . |
| 30 | This was the type of man he was looking for and , by his own account , not infrequently found . |