Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] be [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of them are farming for little more than the subsidies . |
| 2 | A great majority of them are looking for the theatre of books , and it is not there . |
| 3 | There are currently 79,000 children and young people being cared for by the local authorities in the U.K. and half of them are looking for foster homes . |
| 4 | Little wonder , really , that right now the two of them are looking for the time of their life with someone of their own age . |
| 5 | All three of them are looking for work in large towns . |
| 6 | Let me tell you about the Barking women most of them are dead , some of them are working for local authority . |
| 7 | And one of them is waiting for you . |
| 8 | I looked at set-backs as if they were predetermined , as if a fixed number of them were waiting for me and once one of them was overcome the number to come decreased . |
| 9 | It is quite obvious that if all of you are going for the same niche in the marketplace , as is happening increasingly at present , then it will be a highly competitive situation where you will have to rely even more than usual on the superiority of your own skills or technology to bring you through . |
| 10 | It 's just possible that when the two of you were hunting for a means of rescuing the marchioness she could have pulled herself out and reached firm ground . " |
| 11 | These days more and more of us are going for names we can trust — household names like Matchbox for instance which we remember from our own childhood . |
| 12 | That 's why we want to stay in Hout Bay and most of us are working for them here in Hout Bay ; they should know that . |
| 13 | This went on for three hours while the rest of us were preparing for the move to Canjuers . |
| 14 | Well she was th mm she was looking for she was looking for somebody Re , who was in a particular age group . |
| 15 | A lot of those parts would be worked out anyway , almost like a big band having charts , so it 's not like you 're looking for a vision from those people in the way that you would be from a group of high dollar players , who are hired to create their own thing for you . ’ |
| 16 | You ca n't think like that Has he died yet , sounds like you 're waiting for him to die ! |
| 17 | The city seems like it is preparing for a masked ball . |
| 18 | A man who advertised for a woman to live on a desert island with him is looking for another female travelling companion to repeat the trip . |
| 19 | No offence to Mr Unsworth , but the poet in me was rooting for ‘ Footprints ’ as the judge agonized . |