Example sentences of "i [be] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aycliffe and I are trying for a way to have the will stand . |
| 2 | ‘ Pettigrew and I are going for a stroll , ’ said Mark , who had been finding the atmosphere of the tea room rather oppressive and not really what he had come to Rome for . |
| 3 | So I let her just pass , and said , ‘ Oh , darling , I am looking for a new ‘ element ’ … ’ ; and after half an hour the manager came back to me and said that she was sitting upstairs weeping . |
| 4 | I am looking for a 2hr 8min pace and I prepared to take it up if it falls below that . ’ |
| 5 | He stormed : ‘ I am looking for a dramatic improvement in our defending . |
| 6 | I am looking for a people who will come on bended knee , |
| 7 | I am looking for a people who will come on bended knee . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , I am looking for a receptionist . |
| 9 | I am looking for a man . ’ |
| 10 | In summary , I am looking for a jacket which is wind and water proof , breathable , looks respectable enough to turn up at the office in , and offers conspicuity . |
| 11 | And can I remind the district planning officers I am looking for a positive contribution from you on Tuesday . |
| 12 | I am looking for a Leeds United match programme … not looking for any particular but I would prefer the most recent or a forthcoming copy . |
| 13 | A very authoritative voice shouted : " Joe , I must come in because I am looking for a wing commander . |
| 14 | Now I am looking for a new start and go on from there . ’ |
| 15 | " I am looking for the Reed Girl . " |
| 16 | ‘ Now I have got that first win I am looking for the second . ’ |
| 17 | The ‘ maid ’ in the villa in which I am lodged for the purposes of research ( she is a statuesquely beautiful and highly intelligent woman who is called ‘ maid ’ , rather in the way the South Africans call elderly black servants ‘ boy ’ ) suffered the horror of seeing both her parents shot by the Germans whilst the aristocrats from the local castle entertained the S.S. officers to black market dinners of wild boar and chocolate sauce . |
| 18 | I am ordering for the week . ’ |
| 19 | I am staying for a few days at the Dale End Hotel while I explore the district , and I 'd like to know about the Brownies ' Bridge , as I am to do with Brownies . ’ |
| 20 | I am searching for a pattern . |
| 21 | He was celebrated at court for the eloquence of his sermons , and in 1683 Lord Dartmouth , who commanded the large fleet which was to visit Tangiers and evacuate its garrison , implored him ‘ For God 's sake , and as I am to answer for the preservation of so many souls as he hath put under my care ’ , to join the expedition as his chief chaplain . |
| 22 | What I am suggesting for an understanding of the workings of television generic fiction and its associated forms of subjectivity ( or , indeed , of narrative cinema and its subjectivity ) , is that it may be more fruitful if we approach it as an historical development of the complex , theoretical genre of novelistic discourse rather than as a collection of autonomous elementary , historical genres . |
| 23 | I am allowing for the fact that , in a substantial number of cases , investigations could not be concluded , and many complaints were withdrawn . |
| 24 | ‘ I am prepared for a partition that will not put me to shame before the Arabs ’ they reported him as saying , and he assured me of them , Golda Meir , ‘ that he would not attack the partitioned Jewish State but that he would annex [ Arab ] Palestine . ’ |
| 25 | I am , at present I am applying for a job on the |
| 26 | I am applying for the post of … |
| 27 | So I am fighting for the profession . |
| 28 | ‘ I am fighting for the return of the community spirit , that is basically what my whole campaign stands for . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Well , that 's an artful way to get me to wait on you , ’ interrupted Sally-Anne frankly , ‘ and I suppose , since you are so cunning , and I am dying for a drink , you might have your way — perhaps a bonus on my wages might be an idea , seeing that I shall be doing this out of hours . ’ |
| 30 | Partly I am mesmerised by its spinach-green tanks and cowling , its red pulleys , dogs and levers , its greasy leather belts , its twitching , glittering blades , stink of hot oil , petrol , exhaust … and partly I am praying for the chance that something — I 've no idea what , but just something — may go wrong … so that I , Jimbo , the firstborn , may step into the breach and save the day . |