Example sentences of "they [be] [v-ing] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , yeah bu yeah , but they are rehearsing for two and a half hours . |
| 2 | They are playing for one of the biggest clubs in the game and that should be a source of pride , but that seemed to be painfully absent at Bradford last week . |
| 3 | ‘ They are asking for eight per cent , whereas the housing associations can afford to pay only three-and-a-half per cent . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ They 're looking for two vital elements , ’ explains Matthew . |
| 5 | They revealed they 're looking for two suspects . |
| 6 | They revealed they 're looking for two suspects . |
| 7 | they 're looking for four fifty it 's a sixteen hundred with black cloth interior terrible |
| 8 | They 're looking for one sort of nice house to sort of show them more or less . |
| 9 | I mean now they 're going for thirty two . |
| 10 | When you can get choice of them , if they 're going for forty over a piece ! |
| 11 | Securicor have joined the cowboys on the contract guarding and really I mean you must be getting sick of us getting up every time about security guards , but it 's an important problem and you must know that a lot of you must work at places where you 've got guards on the gate and we all should take a bit of interest in going to see these guards , find out that they 're working for two pound or two pound forty an hour , they 're working as many hours a week as they 'll actually work with no overtime rate , no night rate , no benefits worth having and I mean really I wish you 'd go to your companies and try and arrange site allowances , cos that 's the only way we 'll get any improvements , but when we talk about resolving grievances , we just took in Yorkshire region someone to a tribunal for constructive dismissal . |
| 12 | Tommy Drennan and Mr O'Donnell came next and they were looking for two to bring up the rear . |
| 13 | They were looking for 4 men . |
| 14 | Police said they were looking for three young men in connection with the raid on Wednesday night . |
| 15 | They were searching for ten fridges and freezers which the consumer magazine ‘ Which ’ says are the most energy-efficient models on the market . |
| 16 | Malatie and her husband were prepared to make sacrifices so that their children might get a decent education : they were paying for two of them to attend a special boarding school for Harijans . |
| 17 | They were selling for five pounds each at a market at Moreton in Marsh in Gloucestershire . |
| 18 | It was not until they had just left the Church that Joan discovered they were going for two weeks to Tenerife . |