Example sentences of "say [pers pn] [was/were] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos say I was looking for angles and that would 've just been fifty up here would n't it . |
| 2 | and then we started speaking to this chap and say we were looking for this place where the erm , they sell all this food and so on , what 's the name of the place , he said oh he says it 's finished , so he said you know where the er , we said er where 's somewhere good you know to , to go and have a nice sleep , and he told us about that place up the mountain where we went , where we all went the last time |
| 3 | Right if we were looking for a fifteenth , say we were looking for a fifteenth what would make |
| 4 | They say he was looking for evidence of natura naturans ‘ all-creating nature ’ , rather than natura naturata , ‘ the made world ’ ; in certain seventeenth- and eighteenth-century writing of unimpeachable orthodoxy reference is made to anima mundi , a spirit pervading the world and supplying the continuing presence of God . |
| 5 | Chairman Murray had said he was looking for an apology from Crosby over rumours linking the Sunderland boss in a reunion with former manager Denis Smith at Bristol City . |
| 6 | Well , he said he was a writer , and I said I was looking for plays to invest in and why did n't he write one about his friend , and a couple of months later he 'd written something pretty splendid , had n't he ? |
| 7 | So I said I was waiting for my sister , Mrs Webb . |
| 8 | ‘ You said you were looking for me . ’ |
| 9 | She made her get into bed and said she was sending for the blue ladies right away . |
| 10 | She concentrated on the one with the trousers and said she was looking for George . |
| 11 | ‘ She used to say she was coming for a day and stay a week , ’ Rosemary said . |
| 12 | They said they were looking for me and I had to go with them back to the convent . ’ |
| 13 | FEDERAL officials yesterday made one arrest in their search for the bombers of the World Trade Centre in New York and authorities said they were looking for other suspects . |
| 14 | The testers presented themselves at factory gates , the minority one first and the other about half an hour later , and said they were looking for work . |
| 15 | ‘ Darling , ’ Arabella had said , ‘ You know that PR firm I did some work for ? I was talking with their boss the other day , and he said they were looking for new blood … ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Those burglars he sent — you said they were looking for something . |
| 17 | Judges said they were looking for a pleasing colour , a sharp flavour and a good fruity smell . |
| 18 | Police said they were looking for three young men in connection with the raid on Wednesday night . |
| 19 | But a young couple with a seven-year-old daughter said they were leaving for good . |
| 20 | In answer to our enquiries they said they were waiting for goods coming from Egypt to receive customs clearance . |
| 21 | Said they were talking for somebody big . |
| 22 | Labour 's campaign coordinator Jack Cunningham was forced to apologise yesterday to Hexham woman Caroline Drain after her name was included without her permission on a list of people who had telephoned the health hotline to say they were waiting for operations . |
| 23 | To say they were playing for a 0–0 is an understatement . |
| 24 | George Underwood : ‘ When you leave school , you have to queue up and see a career 's officer and I remember I was standing right behind David in the queue and asked him what sort of job he was going to say he was looking for . |
| 25 | On arrival , however , Mr Cristiani said he was looking for reconciliation and wanted a ceasefire in El Salvador . |
| 26 | On arrival , however , Mr Cristiani said he was looking for reconciliation and wanted a ceasefire in El Salvador . |
| 27 | Finally he took me in to his office and said he was looking for Girls to work at the Winter Gardens , Blackpool . |
| 28 | ‘ He said he was looking for enthusiasm and his gut instinct for people . ’ |
| 29 | Siemens AG is disputing a politically-sensitive article carried in The Wall Street Journal Europe on February 16 , which claims that , for the first time , a top Siemens manager , Heinrich von Pierer , said he was looking for a strategic partner for ailing Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG ( CI No 2,117 ) : Pierer allegedly stated that he was not interested in a ‘ one-sided partnership ’ , rather in one that involved ‘ real co-operation ’ ; according to Computerwoche , Siemens denied any claim that it was seeking shelter for Siemens Nixdorf under the umbrella of Japanese or US competitors , ‘ like the other three European computer firms ’ ; the Journal 's London office says the paper is sticking by its story . |
| 30 | Siemens AG is disputing a politically-sensitive article carried in The Wall Street Journal Europe on February 16 , which claims that , for the first time , a top Siemens manager , Heinrich von Pierer , said he was looking for a strategic partner for ailing Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG : Pierer allegedly stated that he was not interested in a ‘ one-sided partnership ’ , rather in one that involved ‘ real co-operation ’ ; according to Computerwoche , Siemens denied any claim that it was seeking shelter for Siemens Nixdorf under the umbrella of Japanese or US competitors , ‘ like the other three European computer firms ’ ; the Journal 's London office says the paper is sticking by its story . |