Example sentences of "[v-ing] to [pron] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , if someone gave as their hobbies on their CV only reading and chess , and they were applying to you for a job where they would be working with the public , might you not have doubts about that person ? |
| 2 | I 've been listening to it for a while . |
| 3 | But if you 're looking to me for a list of who really makes which strings , I 've found that asking straight questions does n't always get you straight answers . |
| 4 | Mr Hurd needs no minders , but the 60 Tory MPs who declined to support Mrs Thatcher for leader last week , plus MEPs , this week 's Lords report and many industrialists will be looking to him for a more emollient performance in difficult circumstances . |
| 5 | Mr Hurd needs no minders , but the 60 Tory MPs who declined to support Mrs Thatcher for leader last week , plus MEPs , this week 's Lords report and many industrialists will be looking to him for a more emollient performance in difficult circumstances . |
| 6 | However anyone looking to it for an explanation of how women have come to be excluded so completely from the control of machines , or even for a theoretical framework within which to pose such a question , is in for a disappointment . |
| 7 | oh yeah , and end up not speaking to her for a month |
| 8 | He looked from one to the other , his bleak glance resting briefly on Sarella 's upturned face , and then he said , ‘ I tell you one thing , Peter ; when you 're down and out and she 's left you for richer pickings do n't come running to me for a hand-out , because it wo n't be forthcoming . |
| 9 | Sheila talks to her mother about the situation and her mother says the social workers are quite right ; Sheila was heavy-handed with the children and has had this coming to her for a long time . |
| 10 | She sounded breathless and he frowned , his eyes lifting to hers for a moment before someone drew his attention and he turned away . |
| 11 | After talking to her for a while I asked her if she was English . |
| 12 | ‘ You can tell if their attitude 's right just by talking to them for a few minutes , ’ he says . |
| 13 | ‘ But you 've only been talking to them for a little while ! ’ said Angalo . |
| 14 | It 's one of my jobs to meet the boats and this involves assembling the visitors and talking to them for a short while about the wildlife and rules of the island . |
| 15 | I wondered if she was talking to me for a minute . |
| 16 | She stood stroking the animal and murmuring to it for a moment longer before glancing around the hut . |