Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [be] [v-ing] for [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Declaring that she believed she was speaking for everyone , she expressed gratitude for the splendour of the hospitality provided by La Belle France , thanked the president personally , and added a few more words of the sort which well-brought-up people employ on such occasions . |
| 2 | I knew I was looking for something . |
| 3 | I really genuinely thought I was speaking for everyone , but they would now say they did n't particularly agree with me . |
| 4 | Mind you , I mean , we got no whisky anyway so I said she 's looking for somebody who erm drinks at erm a spot of whisky . |
| 5 | So when we went to Stylus Records and Telstar you know they were more than than happy to have because they seemed but I think that at at the start had we been looking for somebody here to take us over probably it would never have happened . |
| 6 | ‘ Those burglars he sent — you said they were looking for something . |
| 7 | Said they were talking for somebody big . |