Example sentences of "he be [verb] for [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Peter Ackroyd is all of the formidable pasticheur that he is praised for being , and Dyer 's tale , which affects to be that of someone who lived in the eighteenth century , and in which the element of imitation , present in writing of every kind , is more obtrusive than it is in the other tale , is the livelier of the two . |
| 3 | What he 's looking for is certified numbers , field numbers |
| 4 | All he 's waiting for is his number to come up . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But in April 1878 he was cautioned for being intoxicated while on duty , and when discovered drunk in 1882 was reduced to the second class . |
| 7 | The kind of place that he was looking for was the second home , the petit-bourgeois country retreat which is usually sparsely and cheaply furnished and rarely occupied . |
| 8 | What he was looking for was something very small if he was prepared to tip out tiny containers . |
| 9 | He says he was made redundant from his storeman job but Mrs Smith says he was sacked for being drunk . |
| 10 | He says he was made redundant from his storeman job but Mrs Smith says he was sacked for being drunk . |
| 11 | He was known for being jailed for his homosexuality , but the show looks at his family life . |
| 12 | He passed her , and he was known for being crappy . |
| 13 | The place he was making for was at the end of the spit of land and he was driving directly into the sun . |
| 14 | WHEN in March 1989 the American treasury secretary , Nicholas Brady , announced his plan to reduce the third world 's commercial-bank debt , particularly Latin America 's , he was criticised for being too vague . |
| 15 | He was criticised for being negative , so he resorted to inserting the word ‘ positive ’ at dreary intervals into his stock responses to questions . |
| 16 | He was blamed for being too lax a disciplinarian , and indeed for the defeat on the snap ‘ cordite ’ vote on 21 June 1895 which saw the government resign . |
| 17 | All he was waiting for was confirmation . |
| 18 | It may also not have been the least of Ælfheah 's attractions to the people of London , heavily taxed in 1018 , that he was murdered for being unable or unwilling to give money to the Danes ; nor need it have made Cnut 's position any easier that King Æthelred , too , lay buried in St Paul 's . |