Example sentences of "one [pron] be [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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1 | A first time garden is usually small and certainly the typical one I am imagining for this series is no more than 40ft x 20ft and surrounded on all sides by other houses . |
2 | I was the one he was looking for , and he was the one I was looking for . ’ |
3 | The one I was looking for . |
4 | Sorry that was the one I was looking for . |
5 | There 's the one I were looking for . |
6 | Cos there was one in July and I suspected it would clash with holidays , which it probably does , so the November one I 'm trying for . |
7 | The one I 'm looking for is what , have I got to the strings yet ? |
8 | The one you 're looking for … ’ |
9 | One of them 's old and one of them 's young , but I do n't think the young one could be the one you 're looking for , not unless she changed her trousers on the way down . ’ |
10 | Is that one you 're knitting for Shirley ? |
11 | ‘ She 's the one you were looking for , right ? ’ |
12 | While the water steamed from the taps , she busied herself at the long table beneath the bathroom mirror , lifting the lids from the various jars and sniffing at them until she found the one she was searching for . |
13 | The reason for this , I later discovered , is that at yours there is likely to be a selection of friends and relations , one of whom in the course of discussion is bound to say , ‘ Come on , let's give him the best ! ’ and although he or she is very seldom the one who is paying for it , no one likes to appear mean at such a time — an attitude , I might add , of which the undertaker thoroughly approves ! |
14 | I 'm the one who 's looking for a friend who may well be in the hands of the cochon gris . |
15 | But that 'll help you check he 's the one we 're looking for . ’ |
16 | I was the one he was looking for , and he was the one I was looking for . ’ |
17 | Having seduced over one million new users to OS/2 2.0 with the implication that they should adopt Database Manager with it — it actually came bundled in OS/2 Extended Edition — IBM Corp is planning to replace the database with the one it is developing for AIX , according to Computerworld . |