Example sentences of "be [v-ing] for [adj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | POLICE are searching for two youths who escaped from Castle Huntly young offenders institution in Perthshire last night . |
| 2 | Well , I would suppose that the person they 're looking for is similar in character , but if they 're going to er if they 're looking for that person I think they 've just got to act normally , and it 's not a one-off thing , I think it 's built up over the years . |
| 3 | Carlson had been wondering for some time what was actually going on . |
| 4 | On the subject of granny flats , if you are caring for elderly parents there may come a time when a little bit of outside help could make all the difference . |
| 5 | Bob Peckham has been juggling for 12 years he regularly entertains shoppers in Oxford city centre . |
| 6 | This was interesting ; some tritium was occurring naturally in the heavy water and when they measured the tritium levels after the experiment had been running for some hours they found that the tritium level had dropped . |
| 7 | Okay and when it 's been travelling for five hours it goes through erm what 's another station up there ? let's say Carlisle something like that . |
| 8 | Now when it 's been travelling for three hours it goes through Manchester . |
| 9 | And when it 's been travelling for seven hours it gets into Glasgow . |
| 10 | Assuming you are going to want to use the material as a normal part of a normal lesson , when you look at a drama you will be looking for short segments which can stand on their own sufficiently to make sense as an independent sequence . |
| 11 | If you are not , you may be heading for potential losses which could have been avoided and you are almost certainly not trading as effectively or profitably as you should ! |
| 12 | But it 'll be inteesting for those folks who have n't seen them ’ LIVE ’ |
| 13 | Over two hours , this can be wearing for two minutes it 's fine . |
| 14 | Er Madam Speaker I I entirely agree with the sentiments which have been expressed by Black and Decker and I have to say to members opposite that when companies like Mercedes are starting to source outside of Germany , with companies like Volkswagen are starting to look er outside Europe and Peugeot and others , alarm bells should be ringing for those members who are genuinely concerned about jobs because there is no doubt that the social chapter is driving people out of work and the longer that members opposite adhere to it er then the the greater will be the er the possibility o of er people er in Europe er embracing policies which will make those countries in Europe less competitive and less able to provide employment . |
| 15 | She were knocking for this thing you know . |
| 16 | No market research informed Laura that women were thirsting for long dresses which they could not find . |
| 17 | For another hour the inquisition continued , almost , I felt , as though the ‘ judges ’ were scraping for any dirt they could find . |
| 18 | ‘ The police are appealing for any person who was in the area at this time and may have witnessed the incident to contact them . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ But I am a bit disappointed that while we 've been appealing for new directors nobody from the town has come forward . ’ |
| 20 | HOST is looking for friendly people who would like to invite a lonely overseas student studying in Britain to spend Christmas , Easter or a weekend in their homes and experience British home life . |
| 21 | He is looking for that quality which you must allow me to call ‘ modernity ’ ; for I know of no better word to express the idea I have in mind . |
| 22 | — Following the huge success of the last series of Stars In Their Eyes , Granada TV is looking for more people who look and sing like the biggest stars in the business . |
| 23 | R.5(6) provides that a shareholder shall not exercise any voting rights in respect of any share held in breach of any part of R.5 — a breach could come about either because a shareholder is not permitted to be a shareholder or because a shareholder is holding for another person who is not permitted to be a beneficial owner . |
| 24 | Well if you have n't been working for six months you are looking for a job , you are not unemployed . |
| 25 | Although he has only been rallying for one year he has already appeared on the BBC Top Gear championship series when viewers saw him win his grand touring class . |
| 26 | When you are working for other people it is really important to make sure that your time is managed well ( see p. 14 for general assistance on time management ) . |
| 27 | I always felt that he was never really happy with his performance of La Mer ; he was searching for certain textures which he could never really get in hand . |
| 28 | 49 Miss Havisham regrets her ‘ training ’ of Estella and when Pip returns from abroad where he was working for 11 years he finds Estella much changed from her unhappy marriage to the spider . |