Example sentences of "we be [v-ing] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A chasm separates us from the other side and now we are looking round for the bridge . ’ |
| 2 | And so it goes on through life ; always a struggle between wanting to hold on to what we have at the same time as we are reaching out for new joys and satisfactions ; always the dilemma of making choices , of greedily wanting everything , of resenting having to let anything go . |
| 3 | From 1989 , with around 165,000 divorces per annum , we are getting on for almost one in two marriages ending in divorce . |
| 4 | we a we are going , we are going out for a meal on Saturday night i er , in , with or without , we 're going out , I 've er we want to go to the when we went with . |
| 5 | This provides another test of the ‘ mandate theory of party democracy ’ which we are carrying out for Britain , USA , Canada , France , West Germany , Austria , Australia and the Netherlands . |
| 6 | ‘ Got to observe strict ARP , you see , Miss , though here we are gettin' on for five months of war and not a peep out of a Jerry plane . |
| 7 | and I 'm the mail-out coordinator we 've we 've so far mailed out all but one of the of the new magazines and er we did n't do the last one but we 're we 're scheduling up for doing this one . |
| 8 | But the point is what I 'm saying is if we could get that stuff there on Friday afternoon and get the the conveyor set to where you want 'em , because I do n't know what leads you want the lorry got there on Monday morning , wants unloading , and we 're flying about for damn leads , we we 're gon na be in trouble . |
| 9 | The decision makers we 're screaming out for . |
| 10 | ‘ So we 're bunking off for a day or two . |
| 11 | Now , that obviously means , colleagues that we 're , we 're going over for a period of time , but we 're er slightly behind this afternoon , so certainly need to be trying to pull some work back . |
| 12 | Is n't it awful to think your legs decide what your retirement 's going to be , but they do , more or less , so that if you th if you think a if you 've ever had any trouble with them you 'll realize , people say , you know , would you , we 're going out for the day , you coming ? |
| 13 | look it does n't matter now because we 're going out for some milk , here |
| 14 | Monday we 're going out for dinner . |
| 15 | Has Mum told you that we 're going out for a Chinese ? |
| 16 | These friends from up north are coming for the weekend , so we 're going out for the weekend |
| 17 | ‘ We 're crying out for a replacement for Gary Lineker , ’ said Horton , ‘ and a front two of Bull and Shearer does n't sound bad to me . |
| 18 | We were hanging about for 19 hours altogether . ’ |
| 19 | So we were looking around for interesting stuff to push — sounds like drugs , eh ? — he-he-he ! — and someone mentions Walter Machin . |
| 20 | ‘ When we were looking around for a royal to open the centre , we were promised as soon as someone was available for a royal visit , we would get one , ’ said Peter Carberry , chairman of Darlington Mind . |
| 21 | We were slowing down for lunch and lack of fitness , and after traversing 200 feet of horizontal ridge and tricky gendarmes , we found a terrace in the sun below the final flawless tower and sucked on soggy oranges . |
| 22 | ‘ We were getting on for ten when we liked it , ’ Finch said . |
| 23 | The taxi driver who left us at the station , enchanted by the idea that we were setting off for the source of the Nile , refused to accept any fare . |
| 24 | I think that year we were making up for the limitations of the one before . |
| 25 | We were tooling up for it when we were sacked . |