Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] you be [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contact the police once you arrive to let them know you 're looking for him . |
| 2 | 'Cos you 're on the dole , as soon as your money comes — I mean you 're prayin' for your money to come — as soon as it comes it goes . |
| 3 | The feeling intensified when she met Marshall who gave a knowing look and said : ‘ I expect you 're working for Mr Harbury . ’ |
| 4 | I expect you 're waiting for Mr Right , ’ said the woman to Rachaela . |
| 5 | I know you are working for Ipuky , but you must let me work with you . |
| 6 | Mr de Klerk , so eager to placate Margaret Thatcher and international opinion generally , was saying , between the lines : ‘ Look , I know you 're asking for Mandela 's release . |
| 7 | Er — I heard you was looking for Ron . |
| 8 | ‘ I believe you 're waiting for a hip replacement . ’ |
| 9 | I suppose you 're hoping for good digging weather because you have to dig a fairly big hole to put a tree in it , do n't you ? |
| 10 | I knew you were heading for Dublin , knew which hotel , because Donal had made a great point of telling me , and so , when the dinner I was at proved to be as boring and interminable as I had known it would , I left . |
| 11 | That 's the word I think you 're looking for . |
| 12 | I think you 're sending for all my things are n't you ? |
| 13 | ‘ I think you were looking for these ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I wish you were staying for it ! ’ she exclaimed sadly . |
| 15 | The caller stepped back aghast and stuttered , ‘ I 'm so sorry to disturb you — I see you 're changing for dinner . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You mean you 're working for a calculating machine ? ’ |
| 17 | You used it again when you 'd just got off the train from Paddington tonight , when you pretended you were waiting for Mrs Downes — ’ |
| 18 | Okay you know you 're looking for eight threes , what are eight threes ? |
| 19 | You feel you 're begging for something that is n't there . |
| 20 | You feel you 're begging for money … |
| 21 | ‘ You said you were looking for me . ’ |
| 22 | So just go for that I mean you see you 're looking for the pattern , you ca n't know ninety odd elements and what the carbonate of every one does , what the sulphate of every one , what the nitrate of each one , bicarbonate , hydrogen carbonate of each one . |
| 23 | It seems to me that while you work initially for local councils and local councillors who should , obviously , be the people who have the power and the say , and far be it from me to recommend that you ignore or even threaten to undermine the democratic process , however imperfect it it it may it may be , you have you are working for that local council . |
| 24 | ‘ Who did you say you were looking for ? ’ she asked suspiciously as I pulled up a weatherbeaten bus seat . |
| 25 | We thought you was looking for us , that 's all . ’ |