Example sentences of "be [v-ing] for [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police in York are looking for two sex pests following indecent exposure incidents in Salisbury Terrace and Heslington Road . |
| 2 | So we 're looking for one person . |
| 3 | They 're looking for one sort of nice house to sort of show them more or less . |
| 4 | Securicor have joined the cowboys on the contract guarding and really I mean you must be getting sick of us getting up every time about security guards , but it 's an important problem and you must know that a lot of you must work at places where you 've got guards on the gate and we all should take a bit of interest in going to see these guards , find out that they 're working for two pound or two pound forty an hour , they 're working as many hours a week as they 'll actually work with no overtime rate , no night rate , no benefits worth having and I mean really I wish you 'd go to your companies and try and arrange site allowances , cos that 's the only way we 'll get any improvements , but when we talk about resolving grievances , we just took in Yorkshire region someone to a tribunal for constructive dismissal . |
| 5 | I , I look at these science things where , you know , they 're sending these things , America 's sending them , it 's been going for two year thousands of miles an hour , you know , probably a minute er and the as the man came over who went to the moon , the top man , to lecture and he was asked innumerable questions and one was do you think there 's anything up there ? |
| 6 | The team has only been going for one term and we have only played two matches against other schools . |
| 7 | Erm the issue is is that potentially you could be goi we could 've been going for four point three extra people and we probably wo n't do that . |
| 8 | Erm if he 's another easy one is if he 's been travelling for one hour how far has he gone ? |
| 9 | Tim Curtis is not afraid to leave out seamers — but it still looks as if Illingworth and Stemp will mostly be competing for one place . |
| 10 | We were playing for four pound for two lines on Saturday . |
| 11 | Why all of them if he 's searching for one slave ? ’ |
| 12 | He is heading for 350 League appearances with Liverpool ( 183 goals ) and 50 FA Cup games . |
| 13 | The Johnny Mathis ‘ A Child is Born ’ disc also avoided this by fudging the identity of the infant — ‘ The world is waiting for one child … black , white , yellow ? … no one knows . ’ |
| 14 | Mr West 's company is preparing for zero growth over the next two years . |
| 15 | Although he has only been rallying for one year he has already appeared on the BBC Top Gear championship series when viewers saw him win his grand touring class . |
| 16 | A Devon labourer who promised his mother not to marry in her lifetime , finally married only at the age of 51 : ‘ bugger , we was courting for seventeen year . |
| 17 | I was looking for one hole . |
| 18 | For they knew perfectly well that Lothar was waiting for one thing to happen before engaging in battle : one thing which would make him too feel he could win . |
| 19 | Kubrick was working for one year with Marlon Brando on One-Eyed Jacks while I was preparing Spartacus . |