Example sentences of "what [pers pn] be [v-ing] for " in BNC.

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31 Yeah , the need for the job er er yeah , not , not quite exactly what I 'm looking for , the way of the trainer 's dilemma is n't it ?
32 What I 'm looking for is a locked , unmarked door on the fourth floor up a flight of stairs .
33 Well what what I 'm looking for there Rod obviously is a response to this letter I have sent to .
34 Nevertheless undaunted , since things have moved on a bit since nineteen eighty seven , I suppose what I 'm looking for is some guidance as to the way in which policy I twelve has operated in practice .
35 What I 'm looking for is information about myself .
36 And what I 'm looking for , Coffin thought , is what they might not remember , the little details , the sequence of small events that might shift Ted Mosse into a different perspective .
37 Perhaps early in the presentation the customer might say ‘ Yes , that 's just what I 'm looking for ’ , to which the salesperson replies ‘ Good , when do you think you would like delivery . ’
38 That 's what I 'm looking for , I 'm hoping she 's rubbed it out in pencil .
39 and it 's what I 'm looking for
40 Oh , yes , that 's the one , that 's what I 'm looking for , bet you have n't got , well he want 's a large .
41 I , what I 'm looking for is oh
42 Er so what I 'm looking for is to try and see that we do all we can to make sure that the second half of ninety three we take full advantage of everything that we 've got so that we do actually rapidly increase our productivity in the second half of the year .
43 It 's as , what I 'm looking for is that the people who tick it off as being okay know what they are looking for , and that maybe that it 's the right number of boxes , it might be it 's the right grade of paper , whatever it happens to be that , that , if they tick it to say it 's right , then that 's what , that they have checked in some way .
44 ‘ I think what I 'm asking for a pair of shoes is fair enough though I am keeping the prices low as an incentive for my customers to come back for more . ’
45 He said , ‘ That 's not what I 'm asking for . ’
46 Yes , the copying music , what I 'm asking for is not so much copying there , ag it 's it 's the old friend transposition , well it 's partly copying , but it 's mainly transposition of erm horn , trumpet and clarinet parts
47 What I 'm asking for is that we keep this approach up to fight this government to give er our senior citizens a better chance in this life , cos a lot of us here would not be here today if it was n't for the senior citizens who brought us up .
48 ‘ That 's what I 'm crying for .
49 a little portion of what I 'm paying for the heel .
50 What I 'm arguing for tonight is that given that we 've relatively recent boundary change , the people have just about got used to it , so by and large er it does n't seem to have huge numbers of demerits as far as the city is concerned and that we are now very , very close , as close as is possible to the norm for the average constituency size that we actually endorse the boundary commissions proposals and leave well alone and the second part of the motion merely says to a neighbouring authority , y'know , please in some senses be punctilious about not to suddenly decide to poke your noses into something way beyond your it 's not just a couple of parishes on the south boundary , a couple of parishes from from the north of their but actually way to our area but what candidly I can only see as a rather partisan er er
51 That 's what I 'm waiting for . ’
52 this is what I 'm fighting for , I 'm fighting for equal rights , and I 'm fighting to get more women into further education cos I think it 's it 's a very basic that we all need to go into and it 's hard , and the openings are n't there women to go into , you 've got to fight for it , yeah !
53 I love what I 'm doing for Revlon but there are two things that I do think about , one is becoming an actress and the other is going to university to study art history .
54 That 's what I 'm doing for him now .
55 I want you to get involved in sharing what I 'm doing for you with other folk .
56 ‘ This result is exactly what I was looking for , ’ Prost said .
57 ‘ This is what I was looking for , ’ he said , and opened it .
58 In this I may be vulnerable , for I was on the lookout for miracles and it was while watching Nancy , listening to her and eventually breaking my own icy shield and talking to her , that I came close to seeing what I was looking for .
59 I knew exactly what I was looking for , they had to be here somewhere , the one and only pair of knickers left uncontaminated in that disastrous load at the launderette , the stuff that had got washed along with that bargain-price bright-pink non-fast Indian-cotton mini-skirt from C&A .
60 They had already found what I was looking for , traces of gun oil , some brown dog hairs and minute traces of dead flesh . ’
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