Example sentences of "he [be] [v-ing] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is heading for 350 League appearances with Liverpool ( 183 goals ) and 50 FA Cup games . |
| 2 | In fact he is asking for two kinds of help : aid to stop ongoing injury and aid to recover from the damage . |
| 3 | Why all of them if he 's searching for one slave ? ’ |
| 4 | Our Dave 's coming for us , he ca n't have all that time off , he 's coming for three weeks in er |
| 5 | The club 's community development officer , Mike Rigg , said he was looking for eight unemployed young men and women , aged 19 or over , to organise soccer schools as part of the 12-month Employment Training plan . |
| 6 | Then the 62-year-old globetrotter from Bristol revealed he was looking for two more women ! |
| 7 | He had a small touring company which had just suffered a couple of deaths in a carriage accident , and he was looking for two versatile and experienced ( yes ! ) players . |
| 8 | He knew that he was searching for sixteen points of comparison before he could be sure of positive identification . |
| 9 | He wondered if Huddle would use her in the painting of the Visitation he was planning for one of the aisles . |
| 10 | Though he had no hope of beating Stevie or Buck , he was heading for one of the best net scores of the day . |
| 11 | At the University , pursuing his hope of becoming an archaeologist ( he may really have meant an antiquarian ) , he was studying for three Honours Degrees . |
| 12 | By 1782 he was paying for 16 boys and 7 girls aged 4 to 11 to attend the local school , and contributing money to build the local workhouse . |
| 13 | 49 Miss Havisham regrets her ‘ training ’ of Estella and when Pip returns from abroad where he was working for 11 years he finds Estella much changed from her unhappy marriage to the spider . |
| 14 | I thought he was going for three weeks . |