Example sentences of "i [vb mod] be [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may be heading for the infernal scrap-heap , but I still have my professional pride . |
| 2 | Sometimes colleagues may read my signals wrongly ; they think that , because I wear short skirts and I 'm not afraid to let the conversation get personal , I must be looking for an affair . |
| 3 | ‘ Even now you still believe your body to be so irresistible that I must be hungering for it ? ’ |
| 4 | Now the rag I should be using for this is the very dirty one and I 've started off with the clean one by accident . |
| 5 | I thought to myself , ‘ Jimmy Dickinson does n't go abroad and certainly not to the States , so if I make a good job of it at Walton Heath I might be caddying for Sandy full-time in the future . ’ |
| 6 | " I think I might be falling for you , you know , " he said as they were drinking up at eleven . |
| 7 | ‘ The money I get for the scrap is paid into the Finance Department , and when the fund has built up to a worthwhile sum I 'll be calling for suggestions for a local charity to whom we can donate the cash . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Also , I 'll be looking for the slag personally , so I reckon between us we should find him . |
| 9 | If you want me , I 'll be looking for Sam . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ That 's possible — he knows I 'll be looking for him — but he 'll have to remain in this country until he can collect his legacy , and by then he 'll expect me to have given up . ’ |
| 11 | I 'll be looking for anything . |
| 12 | Tell me you 're pregnant , I 'll be looking for a camel ! |
| 13 | I 'll be leaving for Naples within the week . ’ |
| 14 | " And I 'll be watching for you . " |
| 15 | ‘ I 'll be praying for you . ’ |
| 16 | You 'll have no trouble in finding details of my engagements and future movements , including the papers I 'll be needing for a trip to Bruges next month . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'll be waiting for you there … ’ |
| 18 | I went and said to the girl at reception , ‘ Tell Vern I 'll be waiting for him just out there , will you ? ’ and swung my bag casually as I wandered down the drive . |
| 19 | I 'll be waiting for you on Chesney Green . " |
| 20 | I 'll be waiting for you in my suite . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Do we have enough air ? ’ ; through controlling proceedings : ‘ I 'll be talking for ten minutes , with five minutes for questions at the end ’ ; and through acting as guide to the presentation , by commenting on the route , ‘ So that 's my second point . |
| 22 | ‘ I could be looking for something more , ’ she said , and again she wished she had kept her mouth closed , but he seemed to bring out the worse in her , and she could n't resist answering his insults in the only way she knew . |
| 23 | It is I 'm looking for five er may be for each of those companies so that 's thirty people I could be looking for . |
| 24 | I 'd been caddying for Ralph Moffatt on the pro circuit and got him through the pre-qualifier at Fairhaven , so I told him I 'd be caddying for him in the Open as I 'd heard nothing from Jack . |
| 25 | If I was spending £500-ish on amplification , I 'd be looking for good second-hand gear , and there 's loads of that about . |
| 26 | So if the president of my company calls from Allentown and says Ricky I 'd like to see you in my office on the thirtieth , I do n't say I 'm sorry Steve , it 's catch up day , I say what time would be convenient for you Sir , because you know , otherwise I , I 'd be looking for a job . |
| 27 | Erm tt whether that 's appropriate , you know , I 'm thinking of it as a first appointment just to get a general picture whereas you might be coming back to stir his memory for referrals by saying er , you know , er you mentioned here you 're a member of the squash club , do you remember I said I 'd be looking for introductions , maybe we 'll learn whether at the beginning of the second appointment you jog the memory there er you know in other words what I 'm do doing is keeping that in my mind , that you are remembering the squash club or whatever club it may be and use that later , although I did n't er elaborate on it at that , that er because I think you can go off at a tangent |
| 28 | I 'd be looking for sixty five for ours , if we were to put it on the market , I mean we 're not |
| 29 | You know , hardly get a go-round in the in the Dictionary of Quotations but at least you got the person there which is right , but in actual fact , how I might have treated that and I might what might have grabbed me a little bit more would have been the story which I would be looking for , I 'd be looking for my journalist to turn that into and therefore you might as well try and do it for us , because journalists like , like count on your labour , as I |
| 30 | Normally I 'd be reaching for ‘ annihilate ’ button when faced with such an ‘ aware ’ and ‘ right-on ’ selection of topics but Leatherface succeed where so many others have failed by virtue of the tuneful tempestuousness of their music , an assault with melody , muscle and sheer conviction which is irresistible , and the fact that Frankie Stubbs never sounds like a po-faced preacher — unlike a certain other native of the North-East whose name I can hardly type without sending my blood-pressure into the red . |