Example sentences of "'s [v-ing] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | More and more money has been spent on the police , and it has n't worked , and that 's why everybody 's looking round for new initiatives , that 's why Patrick Sheehy who after all is chairman of a very successful commercial corporation , was asked by your government to put forward recommendations , that a lot of very unsuccessful police forces rejected out of hand . |
| 2 | I think that 's , that 's pretty consistent , probably with how bands are formed , actually , is n't it , its friends of friends , and somebody knows somebody else , and somebody 's looking round for a drummer , just happens that somebody mentions it to somebody else . |
| 3 | Is it the criminal who tortures the cop , who 's looking out for his own , or is it the undercover copy , who 's selling them all out ? |
| 4 | he must be maybe he 's looking out for more work , I admire |
| 5 | At the moment he 's searching around for sponsors . |
| 6 | Oh I 'll get before this thing comes , oh he 's pulling in for you |
| 7 | Yeah , he 's not pulling in for me , he 's pulling in for himself I think actually . |
| 8 | ‘ Well ’ — she straightened her broad shoulders ‘ perhaps everything 's turning out for the best then . |
| 9 | He 's waiting outside for Patrick . ’ |
| 10 | The Davidsons ' publicist Clifford Elson said last night : ‘ Jim 's going away for quite a while over Christmas which will give the situation a chance to defuse . |
| 11 | that 's why he 's selling it , he 's going away for seven |
| 12 | ‘ Hard to tell what 's going on for sure . ’ |
| 13 | sell the house or whatever but er there 's this pal of mine and er he 's going on for , for ten years , |
| 14 | It 's going on for quite some time . |
| 15 | Do you know it is , it 's a little tiny but it 's going on for ages and ages . |
| 16 | Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us . |
| 17 | Because if they do n't , if they do n't become any more aware of what 's going on for them , they will take all that unfinished business into a new relationship and statistically , we know that second or third time marriages are more likely to break down than first time marriages . |
| 18 | Master John 's going up for the high one . ’ |
| 19 | When everything 's going well for you it 's easy to forget that God 's there with you , because life 's so busy and so much fun . |
| 20 | Our Dawn thinks she 's going just for a tea party when they to ask her to drink owt she just takes her time and drinks it . |
| 21 | He 's going in for another one next month , but I doubt if that will work either . |
| 22 | The record card for such a client was scribbled over with the comment of dealers : " He 's about to buy a house ; has no funds ; he 'll see how the shares he already has do ; he 's going in for Rolls Royce , so has no money ; he 's still waiting for share certificates — once these have arrived he will think about further investment . " |
| 23 | and who 's going in for emergency surgery and whose chances of coming out are virtually nil anyway . |
| 24 | I said , well she 's er she 's going in for medical secretary . |
| 25 | Said she , she 's going in for her fourth operation presumably to have this stapling done again , she says I believe that she 'd be far more counsellor , I , I would of thought she , she would of had counselling anyway before they go to stage of operating , surely , I mean , er do n't they look in into sort of psychological aspects of it , it 's usually a |
| 26 | Or they 're pun they 're pouring money into the countryside now forty five million , he 's going in for these developments er to create a better countryside just announced this week . |
| 27 | he 's applied to the Metropolitan police , he 's going down for an interview in June |
| 28 | Oh Mary 's going out for a drink as well . |
| 29 | ‘ At the rate he 's working up he 's heading straight for a crisis some time today . ’ |
| 30 | And it 's sparkling just for you . |