Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | If they heard a knock at the door or if they heard shouting and bawling in the street , but there 's nothing they can do what we 're asking for here is and I 'm asking for support is a phone to the people who can not afford one whereas if they hear something they can phone the police , or they can phone the support unit because are two people staying together in this day and age where they can not walk in the streets they 're attacked even in broad daylight going to get their pensions never mind at night-time . |
| 32 | Do you know what she said last night , after I 'd told her what Dieter and I were planning for next week ? |
| 33 | After several days of rain , my wife and I were praying for sun . |
| 34 | After several days of rain , my wife and I were praying for sun . |
| 35 | If you and I were working for an organization which gave say half a million to charity , our , I mean correct me if I 'm wrong , but I , I 'm sure our temptation would be to say how can we promote this giving in the media in order , let's be honest about it , to make our , us look good , partly that would be it . |
| 36 | And Jerry and I were posing for pictures … ’ |
| 37 | I think these things were not common in those days and I was looking for someone who had great potential , and decided I 'd found it in David Bowie . |
| 38 | There were a lot of distractions , and I was looking for the . |
| 39 | We were living here and there , and I was looking for investors , so we gave a care-of-Cook 's address . |
| 40 | And I was looking for real ones this time . |
| 41 | We were just walking away , and I was looking for some sort of rubbish container in which to put the bag of icing sugar , when we suddenly heard all those sirens going , and saw masses of policemen running into the park . |
| 42 | You look at a crowd of people , er last , a week , a week yesterday at Wembley at the Billy Graham mission there , er we were sitting in one place and I was looking for , for some other folk and I knew approximately where they were and there I was stand , they were , all you could really see was this mass of people , very difficult to pick out individuals within them but God does n't see it as a mass like that . |
| 43 | When it was time to leave and I was waiting for the car to take me back to the station for the journey back , I have to confess that I shed a tear or two . |
| 44 | Lewis Luther was there within five minutes , and I was waiting for him in the foyer by Purvis 's desk . |
| 45 | He said : ‘ We would have been about 13 and I was playing for South London district and Ian was in the Blackheath team , which also had Paul Elliott in it . |
| 46 | It was down the pasture near Lartington on a day during the last war , when the weather was very bad and I was going for the bus to Barnard Castle . |
| 47 | At least it felt like it was my own money and I was working for it . |
| 48 | It will : identify your belongings from those of other people that may also be in the removal van ; enable you and your friends , or the removal men , to put the boxes in the right rooms ( i.e. anything labelled ‘ crockery ’ in the kitchen ) , this saves sorting it out later on ; and it will enable you to lay your hands quickly on the teapot when it is all over and you are gasping for a cuppa ! |
| 49 | Like me , you know the Abbe Gerard was murdered , and you are looking for that book , a gift from our royal master which , by rights , should now be returned to its proper owner . ’ |
| 50 | Obviously if you did a course in engineering or modern languages and you are going for a job where these skills are required it should not be difficult to explain that this is what positively interests you and you chose the subject because you wanted to go on to employment in the same field . |
| 51 | Perhaps you have had telephone problems of late and you are waiting for the Telecom engineer . |
| 52 | You know how it is Elsie when you go to the show in August and they have those horses jumping and you are waiting for one of the riders to fall off . |
| 53 | well that would make your twenty would n't it because if you have four speakers and you 're aiming for sixteen punters |
| 54 | After you 've swapped your pounds for punts , and you 're looking for a bed to rest your jet-lagged body try Isaac 's , a comfortable hotel in Frenchman 's Lane . |
| 55 | if you 're the only one in house he follows you and you 're looking for him and every time you 're moving around he 's moving around behind you so you ca n't find him . |
| 56 | But if you have to choose one market and you 're producing for or looking to sell to TV , then MIP-TV is probably the better place . |
| 57 | And all the way through the film these things were happening and you 're waiting for the thrilling resolution . |
| 58 | Choose the strong dog in a pack , then fail to discipline it properly , and you 're asking for trouble . |
| 59 | If there is to be a major publicity launch of some kind , or you 're going to have , if you 've got an advert in some magazine , journal , newspaper or whatever , and you 're asking for people to call in , please let the switchboard know who to put the calls through to , and what it 's likely to be about . |
| 60 | But because when you got the , you think you got the heating on and you 're paying for the heating , and you open the windows . |