Example sentences of "he is [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mentally or instinctively he is looking for the pattern and his antennae are an outward expression of that inward instinct . |
| 2 | If the chattel has been purchased through a dealer or auction house or in market overt ‘ it can not be recovered from the first purchaser or any subsequent bona fide purchaser , unless he is compensated for the purchase-money paid ’ [ Art . |
| 3 | He is searching for the salmon 's loom . |
| 4 | His ankle is badly swollen and he is struggling for the weekend . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He is prepared for the paradoxical . |
| 7 | That is unless , like Wade Dooley whom Rodber joined in the England pack against Scotland and Ireland last season , he is picked for the Test against the South Africans four days later . |
| 8 | Whenever they gather in private , he is berated for the economic mess in which their political fortunes are floundering , although in public , as hon. Members know only too well , the fiction is resolutely maintained that Conservative economic policy has been a continuing success . |
| 9 | He looks likely to run in Doncaster 's Flamborough Head Novices Hurdle tomorrow though do not be surprised if he is rerouted for the Grade 2 Berkshire Hurdle at Newbury . |
| 10 | In this way , should you be unable to attend at the last moment and he has to sit twiddling his thumbs in his consulting room because it is too late to give the appointment to anyone else , he is recompensed for the wasted time . |
| 11 | ‘ He is studying for the ministry . |
| 12 | Big , bearded and broad-shouldered , he is studying for the ministry , on a campus where black theology is preached and Christ is held to have advocated violence . |
| 13 | He is blamed for the Tories ' allegedly disastrous campaign . |
| 14 | He is waiting for the shares to be registered in Pembridge 's name . |
| 15 | Now the strings have gone slack , and he is waiting for the end . |
| 16 | Here the use of the definite article with ‘ driver ’ seems quite appropriate , even though he is mentioned for the first time . |
| 17 | The famous cantata Quando ridi , in which a lover claims he is dying for the sake of a beautiful mouth ? |
| 18 | He has kicked the booze , lost weight , and he is itching for the Italian League to get under way . |
| 19 | He is remembered for the Wembley disaster and little else , but the following season he inspired a poor Celtic team to pursue Dundee and Rangers for the League flag . |
| 20 | Swales is not at the US Cup , though he is expected for the final match in Detroit against Germany on June 19 . |