Example sentences of "they be [adv] [v-ing] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is at best a corrective belief , for whatever else Ulysses or The Waste Land are doing , they are also invoking for us the Dublin of 1904 or the London of 1921 . |
| 2 | They are not looking for you to fail — every audition panel wants you to be good . |
| 3 | I bet they are not praying for me going to Saltcoats . |
| 4 | they are still praying for you |
| 5 | Six rounds after the Skeletal Dinosaur springs up , two Bloodletters appear 12 yards from the arch ( between the arch and the adventurers if they are still heading for it ) and attack any characters still present . |
| 6 | Thank goodness they 're not looking for me , he thought as he crossed the room . |
| 7 | They 're probably looking for us now . ’ |
| 8 | Erm , they 're writing on behalf of the , to apply for a grant as detailed in the advert , erm , and basically , erm , it 's , it , they 're , they 're , they 're really asking for us for help to keep the thing running . |
| 9 | got a council house , they 're still paying for it . |
| 10 | " It 's a celebration , " said Nenna , coming up to the hatch , " they 're only waiting for you to come . |
| 11 | Well they 're actually paying for it on the erm |
| 12 | They were n't looking for you , they were looking for cocaine . |
| 13 | He would rather have stayed in the open , where they were n't searching for him , but he had to return to the gatehouse . |
| 14 | They were already waiting for her at the field , but she had no objection to being hustled aboard . |
| 15 | They were here waiting for me . |
| 16 | They were merely waiting for me to say my part . |