Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] be [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos say I was looking for angles and that would 've just been fifty up here would n't it . |
| 2 | ‘ I expect she 's looking for another husband , ’ she said . |
| 3 | I expect you 're waiting for Mr Right , ’ said the woman to Rachaela . |
| 4 | The feeling intensified when she met Marshall who gave a knowing look and said : ‘ I expect you 're working for Mr Harbury . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps I 'm being obtuse , but why should our visit to Nice suggest we were shopping for drugs ? |
| 6 | and then we started speaking to this chap and say we were looking for this place where the erm , they sell all this food and so on , what 's the name of the place , he said oh he says it 's finished , so he said you know where the er , we said er where 's somewhere good you know to , to go and have a nice sleep , and he told us about that place up the mountain where we went , where we all went the last time |
| 7 | Right if we were looking for a fifteenth , say we were looking for a fifteenth what would make |
| 8 | Supermarkets themselves say they 're catering for increasing customer demand , customers too seem to reinforce that attitude . |
| 9 | They say they 're speaking for everyone , but they 're not . |
| 10 | they organized their own child care practices , all the things that women say they 're fighting for today , has actually been done before , and done very successfully . |
| 11 | Medical campaigners say they 're fighting for quality of life . |
| 12 | They say they are looking for ‘ a more just society ’ . |
| 13 | the japanese say they are looking for the instructions they can work a solar car but ca n't put up a tent for eats … its what you fancy … at night its noodles … come daybreak its what 's left … |
| 14 | Rebels say they are heading for victory |
| 15 | The Health Authority say they are waiting for the results of national pay talks before coming to an agreement with their clerical workers . |
| 16 | I find it difficult to understand those who say they are planning for next year 's championships — what is the point , they could be run over by a bus before next year ? |
| 17 | They say he was looking for evidence of natura naturans ‘ all-creating nature ’ , rather than natura naturata , ‘ the made world ’ ; in certain seventeenth- and eighteenth-century writing of unimpeachable orthodoxy reference is made to anima mundi , a spirit pervading the world and supplying the continuing presence of God . |
| 18 | It must have been about the turn of the century the er Times newspaper ran a competition and it wa , the competition was a very simple one , difficult to answer but it was very simply put it was asking for people to write in letters and essays , and features and articles on , what was wrong with the world . |
| 19 | 'Cos you 're on the dole , as soon as your money comes — I mean you 're prayin' for your money to come — as soon as it comes it goes . |
| 20 | ‘ You mean you 're working for a calculating machine ? ’ |
| 21 | ah look at this mum look I 'm wiping for a pound |
| 22 | That 's why I despair when I read what is passing for news in some of the tabloids . |
| 23 | Erm , I 'm not absolutely certain , I ai n't got the keys , I mean we 're waiting for the mortgage to that 's just being decided , draw the contracts after the exchange and er all that lark , but it will be a few weeks . |
| 24 | Yeah , I know I was looking for the erm oops ! |
| 25 | I know I 'm trying for it I 'm trying for it . |
| 26 | I know you are working for Ipuky , but you must let me work with you . |
| 27 | Okay you know you 're looking for eight threes , what are eight threes ? |
| 28 | Mr de Klerk , so eager to placate Margaret Thatcher and international opinion generally , was saying , between the lines : ‘ Look , I know you 're asking for Mandela 's release . |
| 29 | Remember you are aiming for not one lighting effect but several . |
| 30 | But they know they are struggling for both Wimbledon stars and now Ferguson has become their top target . |