Example sentences of "be [v-ing] for [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What I 've been using for about the last five years are Seymour Duncan amps . |
| 2 | Of course while they may be imagining that they are bending my ear and creating a good impression , they are also providing me with the kind of evidence I am looking for about the gendered and generational aspects of this kind of racism . |
| 3 | You simply have to weigh up your personal circumstances and what you are looking for from the job , keeping in mind any long-term plans that you may have for your future career development . |
| 4 | Oh , yes , you 're just the sort of bloke we 're looking for for the guards . |
| 5 | That that 's all we 're looking for at the moment . |
| 6 | What did they accuse him of in front of Pontius Pilate , that 's what we 're looking for in the Roman trial next to come . |
| 7 | Police have released a description of the man they 're looking for in the Tewkesbury attack . |
| 8 | What you 're , what you 're aiming for in the future ? |
| 9 | It turned out that he was a heavy drinker and smoker , who had not been running for about the last 20 years . |
| 10 | This is what goats have been asking for in the their prayers . |
| 11 | He remembers sitting on a hard seat , among a hundred other candidates in a large , impressively ancient room , scribbling a General Essay paper for three hours on EITHER Political Necessity OR ‘ Enrichissez-vous ! ’ not at all sure what the examiners would be looking for in the answers — their ideas or his ideas , or the former subtly disguised as the latter , or the latter masquerading as the former . |
| 12 | When you work with people and you communicate you listen to what they say and you make sure you say what you need to say then that trust is there and that trust builds and it fosters trust , and really that 's what we 've got ta be looking for in the work situation . |
| 13 | ‘ What we will be aiming for on the night is to make sure we score first — and it need n't be in the opening minutes . |
| 14 | This is , I think , what we should all be aiming for in the future . |
| 15 | Perspicacious as ever I asked the council 's marketing director , John Howard , if he had then researched what consumers were looking for during the 60 seconds that were being removed from their lives for ever . |
| 16 | Anybody get what we were looking for in the , yes you should ? |
| 17 | And end up the same circumstances we was now , er with out the stuff that we 'd we were paying for for the next six months of the year . |
| 18 | And if you do n't withdraw it , the C E C is completely and totally opposed to it because we already have what it 's asking for in the rule . |
| 19 | This er committee is fighting for inside the National Health Service , and I think we should make that clear . |
| 20 | Get some movement out there we had a young , a young lady who er she name and she 's up front in the cabinet you know every opportunity she had she was looking for round the room , but not sort of in the round the outside all the time and it 's just that she wanted to be with a group of people all the time . |
| 21 | The DUC found the group it was looking for in the Oxford-based Political Ecology Research Group : ‘ They more or less said to us , ‘ We 'll not take on your issue if we decide that in the upshot our report will be favourable to the mining companies . |