Example sentences of "only [v-ing] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we 're only looking for fourteen businesses on each assignment . |
| 2 | This means not only looking for good practice in the present but also looking for indicators for the future . |
| 3 | Nevertheless if they were going to fly again they were gon na pay for a seat and they 're only looking for some recompense towards a new new ticket what 's wrong with sending them a voucher y'know , a properly produced voucher that we c that 's controlled properly by and all they do is guarantee any travel at their normal travel agent , do the business , attach the voucher to the B S P |
| 4 | We are very big and therefore we 're only looking for big business , is that , is that fair comment ? |
| 5 | When he invited farmers through the Darlington and Stockton Times to consider growing mushrooms as a way of diversifying he received well over 100 calls although he was only looking for ten . |
| 6 | She 's only going for one class . |
| 7 | I thought bloody hell Lynn you 're only waiting for fifty P , you know ? |
| 8 | She did not seem at a loss , only waiting for some boring and pointless noise to end . |
| 9 | Erm you gave your business card , sorry you gave your buyer 's guide first and Steve raised an objection then about do you find it a problem only selling for one company |
| 10 | If you get a correlation of about point seven , it means that you 're only accounting for forty nine percent , less than half , of the variants in the other var the other sets of scores Think about it , if it 's a positive , if you 've got a correlation coefficient of one , what it means is that you account for a hundred perc or or sorry , if you 're gon na make convert it to a percentage , you times it by a hundred , it 's the proportion there . |
| 11 | Two forms of design right are proposed , one subject to registration , the other right being unregistered but only lasting for three years . |
| 12 | We are expecting him back on Monday — but if he 's only staying for three days it 's a pointless exercise . |
| 13 | They 're only coming for eleven weeks , and that of course starting in June , take some holidays , and |
| 14 | A four-year investor is looking for a 25 per cent return here , against a Japanese counterpart only asking for 7 per cent over 14 years . |
| 15 | Exiles secretary John Hunter said last night : ‘ We felt we were reasonable in only asking for two players out of a possible six . |
| 16 | So we 're only asking for five hundred years . |
| 17 | 2 clubs that were not only fighting for European places , but are good enough to win the league , but we obviously need a few slip ups at Old trafford . |
| 18 | No , I do n't get bored at all with it , er because snooker is not er like American pool , where you go out there with a stick and just knock balls all over the table ; snooker is snooker , and the name of snooker is to play this , you know , this game of chess on the green baize , and er that 's what , you see this is where Davis has been so good for so long , a ) he 's a supreme professional , he once apologised for only practising for two hours on Christmas Day rather than four , er and if you look at Davis ' score sheets and his matches , which I 've done over the years , you 'll see a lot of breaks of around sort of fifty five , sixty , sixty five , and then he stops , he plays the safety shot and says to his opponent ‘ okay , your turn ’ , plays the percentage game , the occasional knock in the very big ones , but that 's why he 's won so much , because he thinks it out so well , and knows the averages , knows the percentages and plays the game that way . |
| 19 | He 's only filming for two days . |