Example sentences of "[that] he be [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says that he 's looking for birds preening or doing something which makes a good composition . |
| 2 | Sir Terence adds that he is enclosing for Christopher Patten a copy of the rules which the Cabinet Office has issued for the guidance of officials ‘ on such exercises ’ . |
| 3 | He indicates that he is looking for £150m.The defence division had appeared as a ‘ blot on our copy books ’ , he said — pre-tax profits at the business plunged to £1.5m from £13.2m , and turnover slipped to £425m from the £436.5m of a year ago . |
| 4 | In April , while on a protracted stay with Janet 's parents in Walsall , she complains of his extremely hard work , and in early May she first states that he is working for Oxford entrance . |
| 5 | She was surprised to see that he was struggling for words — something he had not done since the day two years before when her brother Thomas had been murdered by the English . |
| 6 | Sara upset a skillet of boiling milk on her husband 's foot , and left him so lame that he was prevented for days from joining his friends on their lengthening excursions into the Quantock countryside . |
| 7 | He very rarely spoke about business matters to Georgina and decided on reflection against recounting the day 's events except to say that he was leaving for Istanbul in the morning , and would be away for three or four days . |
| 8 | Guido explained what he 'd told Agnese earlier , that he was looking for Jeff and Silvia . |
| 9 | Hall had arrived at Dalston police station about twenty minutes ago and announced that he was acting for Scott . |
| 10 | The claim is currently being considered by the Adjudication Officer who is awaiting a reply from the employer regarding Mr. Docherty 's response to their claim that he was dismissed for misconduct . |
| 11 | Erm also as far as the husband 's back trouble was concerned , I f I felt that perhaps you should 've got a bit more information about the fact that he was going for tests next week at the hospital . |
| 12 | We might have been livestock that he was assessing for slaughter . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , Scott drew heavily on the Byzantine palaces of Venice , which Ruskin had popularized in The Stones of Venice , for inspiration in the revised Foreign Office design that he was preparing for Palmerston in the autumn of 1859 . |
| 14 | You may recall that Bachop was outstanding during the World Cup , but it should be noted that he was playing for Western Samoa , not New Zealand . |
| 15 | It was obvious to Folly that he was playing for time . |
| 16 | However , I thought that it was wrong , very , very wrong that he was picked for Stuttgart on the strength of those two races . |
| 17 | One would have thought that the principle of people living in glass houses not throwing stones would have warned Ivan off a career as a journalist , gossip , and so-called satirist , but it did not seem to occur to him that he was asking for trouble of a kind that she knew would cause him the most intimate anguish : but in fact , so appalling were Ivan 's features and physique that comment on them was rare , even his worst enemies ( and he had hundreds ) not considering them fair game . |
| 18 | A spokesman for Mercury said this week that he was waiting for engineers to fit boards to hook up the exchange . |
| 19 | Lord Keith encountered this difficulty in the person of a Midshipman Mayers , who told the admiral that he was qualified for promotion to lieutenant . |
| 20 | Monzer al-Kassar and Rifat Assad were two of the names that cropped up most frequently in the cascade of raw intelligence from informants and intercepts that he was analysing for NARCOG and back-channelling to Donleavy . |