Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [v-ing] for his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was while she was looking for his record folder in the filing cabinet that she realised her hands were trembling . |
| 2 | She was working for his charity for a third of what she could earn in the City , he enthused . |
| 3 | He is waiting for his friend . |
| 4 | ‘ I think he 's looking for his mother . ’ |
| 5 | And she saying like he 's waiting for his accomplice like and they 've said they 've broken in . |
| 6 | On Monday we 'll see what progress he 's making for his comeback to the county … and maybe even the international scene . |
| 7 | because he 's working for his course . |
| 8 | The first sign of unrest and he 's running for his life . |
| 9 | He 's fighting for his life in St Charles 's Hospital . |
| 10 | Then he remembered he was looking for his friend . |
| 11 | He recalled he had suffered a terrible nightmare ; so vivid that even when his eyes were open and he was screaming for his mammy , the nightmare would not leave him . |
| 12 | Lancaster had even told Jane he was searching for his wife . |
| 13 | I need your help , " he said slowly , putting the finishing touches to the snowman he was building for his sister . |
| 14 | He was fighting for his life . |
| 15 | ‘ For a time he was fighting for his life and we thought we might lose him . |
| 16 | So he was fighting for his state against Florida and against other states who were trying to get these public projects . |
| 17 | Just as he began to fear that he was running for his life through a nightmare landscape that had no end , the ground suddenly opened to reveal the rushing waters of the beck and the section of crumbling stone wall on its other side . |
| 18 | It was easy to see that he was running for his job then . |
| 19 | They rarely strayed out of Middleton but Solowka remembers with perverse affection a gig at Liverpool University , where he was studying for his degree in environmental biology . |
| 20 | He did not mind , because he was waiting for his boy to come home from school and then he 'd have his run along the riverbank . |
| 21 | Hagans told him he was waiting for his girlfriend . |
| 22 | Payne Stewart , not wearing his usual football colours or his regular cap as he was playing for his country , brought emotion to bear on the contest . |
| 23 | He was working for his cousin in Sheffield market as an apprentice butcher , but had bought a trumpet and intended , one day , to become Louis Armstrong . |
| 24 | At the age of 12 , Kitto was taken on by his father to assist him in his trade , and it was shortly afterwards when he was working for his father slating a new roof that he lost his footing in the act of stepping off a ladder and fell thirty-five feet to the ground . |
| 25 | for something , I , I think he was going for his skin |
| 26 | Yes , he took a deflection off erm Andy Melville , I think he was going for his second , and erm I just managed to you know , just get down to my left and just keep it there , and it just sort of stuck so I was pleased with that . |