Example sentences of "be [v-ing] for that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | And while they 're looking for that direction , they are vulnerable . |
| 3 | Well , I would suppose that the person they 're looking for is similar in character , but if they 're going to er if they 're looking for that person I think they 've just got to act normally , and it 's not a one-off thing , I think it 's built up over the years . |
| 4 | because people are dissatisfied with the treatment and they 're paying for that treatment and they 're dissatisfied , so you always get complaints whether you pay or not |
| 5 | ‘ We 're aiming for that contradiction , ’ explains Jim James , one of the band 's two singing guitarists . |
| 6 | That we 're recording for that lady ! |
| 7 | Now they 've come out the front door and the bus is running er coming down the road so they 're running for that bus , so they 're using up their energy , the insulin level 's there , but the energy level is going down . |
| 8 | The pattern is very much first half er , erm , loss or small profit , second half all the profit and in fact you should watch out for the bigger , the bigger Addison Wesley gets , the more the loss in the second half will be because we 're investing for that sale |
| 9 | What 's actually happened is , first of all Tracey 's leaving , she 's been promoted to Area Telesales Manager for Talking Pages so she 's going up to Slough and Michelle will be going for that position , and one other girl and the two others that are on management development , one is now leaving cos she 's like , burnt out , she does n't want to do it any more and the other one 's going into the field so it 's literally just me and this other girl and Michelle , but I 'm obviously just starting , but next time around it 'll just be me again Di , and Dianna is good at her work |
| 10 | She would be waiting for that moment . |
| 11 | She should be longing for that day to come — should be ticking off the seconds till she was free of him again . |
| 12 | They want a meeting , they intimate , and are boarding for that purpose now . |
| 13 | New uses are emerging for that space and new governmental and administrative forms and processes are being created which facilitate its reordering in a way which is analogous to the use of enclosure to expel a surplus peasantry , of the New Poor Law in England to dispose of a surplus of rural proletarians , of clearance to reorder the Highlands of Scotland for capitalist sheep farming , and of the Poor Law , eviction and the failure to relieve famine which was intended to transform the congested districts of Ireland from peasant to large-scale landlord-led capitalist farming . |
| 14 | In Stage II you can use the foods that you are introducing for that week . |
| 15 | Tha that Scottish card that you were looking for that painting ? |
| 16 | Is this what you found when you were looking for that card ? |
| 17 | We were paying for that plane . |
| 18 | He is looking for that quality which you must allow me to call ‘ modernity ’ ; for I know of no better word to express the idea I have in mind . |
| 19 | I mean and everybody 's looking for that dream amount are n't they . |
| 20 | Let's see if he does , he comes Chapel now , to bowl to him and he hoicks that away on that leg side , that 's the area you 're gon na try and hit it , that 's four runs , anywhere near it , so making intentions plain , he 's going for that leg side boundary , that was a real power shot , hit with a spin , this is exactly the way he played at Hove , he got away with it there , he moves on to twelve , I think there 's going to be a field change as a result of that and quite rightly so . |
| 21 | Shaw is negotiating for that hen house over there . ’ |
| 22 | Everyone 's hoping for that dream ticket , and tonight there 's a big win . |
| 23 | Fabia arose on Sunday morning , thought of Cara , of Barney , and of the man she had never yet met but , with guilty conscience , hoped to , and then attempted to shed her anxieties by remembering that , with Františkovy Láznë being less than twenty-five miles away , Františkovy Láznë was where she was heading for that day . |
| 24 | ‘ I think I know why Billy was heading for that house , ’ Prentice went on . |
| 25 | I think he had a thing about it particularly because he knew the record company really was going for that song because the first American space shot was coming up . |