Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd noticed a couple of characters in different bars who also seemed more interested in the people than the liquor , and it did n't need any Sherlock Holmes to know who was paying for their drinks . |
| 2 | Running around in a Chevy Bronco with Texas licence plates — everyone has to know he 's working for you . |
| 3 | ‘ Now you know I 've no right to be here , ’ she said , ‘ I want you to know what 's waiting for me if ever I get taken back . |
| 4 | I 'm thinking towards the eastern European countries , for example , where one is told , or has been led to believe they were aiming for classlessness and what 's happening th barriers are coming down and they 're heading towards our capitalist society as a |
| 5 | Although they did n't actually mention it , he said , he began to realise they were looking for suggestions that rituals had taken place , that he and his wife were part of it , and that their children were victims . |
| 6 | ‘ She used to say she was coming for a day and stay a week , ’ Rosemary said . |
| 7 | But I shall stop to buy some of those beautiful little slate-green lentils for which the district is famous and which a greedy guest of mine recently proclaimed as good as caviare — and also to telephone to Madame Barattero at the Hotel du Midi at Lamastre to say we are coming for dinner . |
| 8 | Labour 's campaign coordinator Jack Cunningham was forced to apologise yesterday to Hexham woman Caroline Drain after her name was included without her permission on a list of people who had telephoned the health hotline to say they were waiting for operations . |
| 9 | To say they were playing for a 0–0 is an understatement . |
| 10 | George Underwood : ‘ When you leave school , you have to queue up and see a career 's officer and I remember I was standing right behind David in the queue and asked him what sort of job he was going to say he was looking for . |
| 11 | Margaret Drabble 's novels were a success from the start ( this one was published in 1964 ) , so I ca n't have been the only new mother to feel she was speaking for me . |