Example sentences of "[Wh det] he [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | So although there is not as yet any definitive question , any definitive answer to this same question which was raised by Mr a couple of years ago , it is under consideration and we would hope that the sort of answer which he is hoping for might be forthcoming from that source . |
| 2 | The most comprehensive survey of Nicholson 's art since the exhibition held at the Gulbenkian Foundation , Lisbon , and the Fondacion Juan March , Madrid , in 1987 , it is Lewison 's dress rehearsal for the major retrospective of more than one hundred works which he is organising for the Tate Gallery in the autumn of1994 . |
| 3 | Understandably nervous , and no doubt a little distracted and distraught both with his loved one 's untimely departure and that which he was planning for himself , he resorted without a thought to his habitual method of calming himself down , and lit a Marlboro . |
| 4 | It is perhaps not by chance that the first Greek book to speak extensively about the Jews was written by an adviser of Ptolemy I in the years in which he was campaigning for the conquest of Palestine . |
| 5 | ‘ He has been crying out for support for ages , and I am sure that this new opportunity is just what he is looking for . ’ |
| 6 | But Regan wilfully distorts this into the implication that we can never say in advance that a given proposal has been drawn up by an incompetent researcher who does n't know what he is looking for … |
| 7 | The new chief executive of the Munich conglomerate , Heinrich von Pierer , told the Wall Street Journal that he is interested in one or more ‘ strategic partners ’ for Siemens Nixdorf , saying that what he is looking for is joint development and possibly manufacturing of a broad range of hardware with one or more competitors . |
| 8 | ( b ) He must take reasonable steps to explain what he is looking for and the basis of his suspicion ( s.2(3) ( b ) ) . |
| 9 | The social anthropologist can find what he is looking for in either . |
| 10 | I du n no what he 's looking for — maybe he lost summat . |
| 11 | I do n't think he finds what he 's looking for , cos after he looks in all the bins he goes off without taking nothing out . |
| 12 | What he 's looking for is certified numbers , field numbers |
| 13 | Ask him what he 's saving for — is he worried about redundancy ? |
| 14 | The fee was n't much , but Harford wanted a club in the south and that was it — not much consolation for Kendall , who knows he might well have done for Everton what he 's doing for Chelsea , helping to turn them into a real Premier League force . |
| 15 | Just see what he 's doing for Scum nowadays , it makes me sick ! ! ! ! ! |
| 16 | Look what he 's doing for Leeds United nowadays ? |
| 17 | I rather admired what he 's doing for Margaret because , as far as I can see , he 's taking er as she 's not able , as far as I can see , to er exist , to live on her own and he seems to be taking over from elderly parents . |
| 18 | What he 's asking for is that any references to that particular disastrous day is not referred to as Black Wednesday , but in fact as Devaluation Day . |
| 19 | Once the Tunnel opens — or maybe just before it does and before the French realize what 's going on and think up a way to stop it — he 'll sell them for maybe a thousand times what he 's paying for them now . ’ |
| 20 | ca n't do anything about it David we 're getting in touch with Blackpool , summat 's gone wrong somewhere along the line , that 's what he 's waiting for a call |
| 21 | You know what he 's waiting for ? |
| 22 | ‘ It 's when you can go , ‘ That guy knows exactly what he is and that 's exactly what he 's going for , ’ and everybody just loves the shit out of it because of that . |
| 23 | We knew what he was looking for and it was n't there . |
| 24 | Often at this time of day , when he felt the day 's journey should be ending or reaching a destination , but knowing that it was not , knowing that what he was looking for probably happened after everybody else had gone home , he wished that he could end his days walking at the edge of a sea or a lake so big that you could n't see its other shore . |
| 25 | Horowitz was not even looking at her : opening his executive case , he lifted the base , sorted through several documents , found what he was looking for and shut the case . |
| 26 | He decided to go on to the second and third caves , determined to find what he was looking for . |
| 27 | Edouard knew what he was looking for , a Picasso , a Matisse , whose medium was not paint but rare stones and precious metals ; the genius who would be the linchpin of his whole enterprise . |
| 28 | Other methods of meeting the organisation 's needs were considered , but Mr Nabakov knew what he was looking for : ‘ I wanted a nuts and bolts accounting system , like Platinum , and it is also highly flexible . |
| 29 | I do n't know what he was looking for , some guilt , some shame , some scandal , I do n't know — but it just is n't there , I suppose . |
| 30 | No movement that he could see , with or without the aid of the binoculars — but then he did n't really know what he was looking for , whilst Windeler had seemed far more assured . |