Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm going to look for real clues round here — bloodstains and things . ’ |
| 2 | " Young as I was " , he wrote later , " I had a feeling that I was destined to work for big changes and improvements in the lives of men of the sea " . |
| 3 | I met and married my husband just at the point when I was beginning to apply for senior registrar posts . |
| 4 | We are continuing to lobby for full compensation for the commercial value of hens slaughtered and for equivalent testing legislation to be introduced throughout the European Community . |
| 5 | Once employees are certain they are not going to move with the company , they are going to look for alternative work . |
| 6 | Is the Secretary of State concerned that some workers in Britain get such low wages that they are forced to apply for social security benefit ? |
| 7 | Software for garden design , estimating and scheduling , as used in many local authority parks and recreation departments , and which it is hoped to obtain for Horticultural Education , has the potential for use in the horticultural Departments of the Gardens . |
| 8 | The club is taking over a second-floor suite of offices on a short-term lease , but it is to continue searching for new premises , almost certainly still in Edinburgh . |
| 9 | It still had its pepper trade and the factories in India at Surat and Madras , and at Bantam in the East Indies , with a number of smaller bases , and it was beginning to look for new opportunities . |