Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [pron] [is] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are using the sample player characters provided in this book , Erszebet will not find the mace she is looking for in here ; Elmariel will realise that this is the body of the Wizard that he wished to find . |
| 2 | For I have no doubt of the welcome he is preparing for Hector when they meet . |
| 3 | She says in her calm , posh voice that this is fine , and continues to stir the curry she is making for their evening meal . |
| 4 | She may just have vital information that will give Bob the lead he 's looking for . ’ |
| 5 | Unix System Laboratories Inc is now alleging that Berkeley Software Design Inc , the start-up it 's suing for copyright infringement and misappropriating trade secrets ( UX No 392 , 396 , 413 ) , plagiarised Unix line-for-line in portions of its BSD/386 operating system and attempted to cover up some of the copying . |
| 6 | It may be that the correct account of knowledge does unfortunately give the sceptic the opening he is looking for . |
| 7 | The friend he 's looking for served with the Royal Military Police in Austria from . |
| 8 | If you do , then maybe you should give him the chance he is asking for . |
| 9 | If you do , then maybe you should give him the chance he is asking for . |
| 10 | It is hardly surprising that he can not find the people he is looking for when even the largest organisations have so few senior women . |
| 11 | Guests included Mr David Beard the surgeon who is caring for Ana-Maria ant Airdale Hospital . |
| 12 | The name of the candidate who is standing for election , and the name of his replacement , who will replace him if he becomes ineligible to be a Member of Parliament . |
| 13 | In part two : uncharted waters … the pilot who 's preparing for life on the high seas . |
| 14 | ‘ Search for the man who is searching for you . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ The man who is looking for a breed to put shape into his lambs only has to talk to butchers who deal in this type of Texel-sired carcass and look at the successes achieved in carcass competitions . |
| 16 | He is not at all well , very breathless , and by the time we are in the care he is gasping for air . |
| 17 | Thomson with the corner he 's looking for Whitlow but it was headed by Rozario Thomson can try again . |
| 18 | The work she does will be taken for granted by nearly everyone , except the relative she is caring for , and there will be no prospect of promotion either , unless it be from housekeeper to nurse . |
| 19 | It can take time to find exactly where the records one is searching for are kept . |
| 20 | If a man is paying his rent to his landlord he surely has the right to use er the land he is paying for and in the , in that matter of using it , surely is included the , the sporting right . |
| 21 | Although a two-state success/failure branch for components and systems is often used , this may be inadequate when we have to examine partial successes or failures ; this treatment for the plant might well produce thousands of sequences , so these are usually grouped into a small set of typical sequence states that will be bounding in terms of the consequences one is looking for . |
| 22 | Nothing is quite an adequate substitute … social service departments should make every effort to support and assist the family which is caring for an older member ’ . |
| 23 | I see my task as a weaver who is looking for threads to weave together . |
| 24 | In case there is a child who is pining for a parent , choose a spare adult who will , if required , give special attention to a needy child . |
| 25 | First , as we wish to encourage carers and strengthen families — even the extended family — if a person who is caring for someone loses them to a home , the person 's home should not have to go on the market to meet the cost of fees . |
| 26 | I believe it is possible to propose an explanation for the intuitive feeling one gets that the -ing form would be somewhat inappropriate here : the author is describing a person who is groping for anything which will reassure her before she meets her angry father and the mere fact that she is able to perceive objects which are familiar to her — when she feels so disoriented that she can take nothing for granted — is what gives her the sense that she is neither shirking nor lying . |
| 27 | A week he 's going for |
| 28 | ‘ And there 's a passenger who 's waiting for you . |
| 29 | ‘ For a woman who 's dying for it , you 're holding up extremely well , ’ said Rory . |
| 30 | A man who is working for Britain and doing it brilliantly , deserves better than to have his income support allowance stopped . |