Example sentences of "[det] [pers pn] [be] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you know the type of this you 're looking for , then you can get free use of paper , stamps and a telephone , in fact anything that 'll get you that ideal position . |
| 2 | Can you possibly remember how much you were paid for your apprenticeship with Amos ? |
| 3 | They do n't work out how much they 're paying for their money |
| 4 | Two years ago , such farms were told to be self-sustaining , self- financing , many state subsidies were withdrawn , yet here today they 're still working to a central plan which dictates how much they produce and how much they 're paid for it , so decades of mismanagement are compounded by a lack of funds . |
| 5 | After being arrested by the Securitate , Lupescu is dragged in chains before Ceauşescu , who demands to know how much he is paid for his jokes . |
| 6 | A week later , having applied for jobs with three firms , Leith heard that two of the vacancies were filled , but she was lucky in the third in that she was called for interview . |
| 7 | so it was , even then , it was summer after that she was trying for Em , it was two years after . |
| 8 | and doing that you 're paying for the opportunity of having erm other services |
| 9 | Later she was to think how little she was prepared for the simple events which were to change her life completely — indeed she would have said that so much had happened to her already that any further incidents must be minor , a judgement which could not have been more faulty . |
| 10 | Erm I I know with certainty that the thirty five hectare that we 're ask hectares that we 're asking for can be achieved , because we know the sites that er that where development will take place . |
| 11 | When I meet women from other countries and they talk about Western feminism and Third World feminism , I did n't see it that way at all I was looking for a political party and I found that I could n't find any which suited my political beliefs and a party that combined Third World and British issues . |
| 12 | ‘ That 's all I was watching for . |
| 13 | If I 'd have been on me own I mean that 's all I was waiting for , mine to grow up so I could clear off . |
| 14 | One slip of the tongue would have betrayed all I was working for . |
| 15 | And all , all I 'm looking for there are the reasons for those figures being so much different from bridge and P Way . |
| 16 | All I 'm waiting for right , is for somebody to set a precedent for for erm doing people for manslaughter because of secondary lung cancer then you 're fucking history sonny . |
| 17 | But all I 'm asking for is an all-glass tank four feet long , and around 18″ × 18″ so that I can watch my shoals patrolling its full length . |
| 18 | I 've spent a fortune in this place and all I 'm asking for is a reduction in the service charge . ’ |
| 19 | One line , that 's all I 'm asking for . |
| 20 | It 's just an opportunity to meet and that 's all I 'm asking for . |
| 21 | All she is asking for , she says , is to live the same kind of life as everyone else . |
| 22 | It was at that moment that Fabia was shaken to realise that all she was looking for was an excuse to be in touch with him again . |
| 23 | ‘ Once is all you 're getting for a five pound note . |
| 24 | there 's various things you can talk to them about , and all you do is , all you 're looking for is some key words to motivate them , right eh er to a certain extent you want , you want to assume from the start that they do n't have a clue what they 're doing |
| 25 | Yeah , that 's all you 're paying for yeah . |
| 26 | Is that all you 're having for tomorrow ? |
| 27 | All we 're looking for is that you 've got what you 've ordered . |
| 28 | That that 's all we 're looking for at the moment . |
| 29 | That 's all we 're waiting for now . |
| 30 | As has just been suggested , and I also mentioned in my speech , yes please , read the rule , it does n't say at every stage and that is all we 're asking for , that at every stage in the procedure a member knows why he or she has n't won the appeal . |