Example sentences of "be [v-ing] for any [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're looking for any trace of clothing , it 's a big area with a long wall and the mounted police can cover it much more quickly than officers on foot |
| 2 | Chartered accountant worth their salt would certainly not be working for any health service or trust hospital . |
| 3 | He took care to appear blithely unworried as he strolled with his staff , for he knew only too well how the French sympathizers in the city were looking for any sign of allied defeatism that they could turn into an argument to demoralize the Dutch-Belgian troops . |
| 4 | I felt they were looking for any excuse to start a fight . |
| 5 | Police now considered the case a murder inquiry and were appealing for any information that would lead to the killer . |
| 6 | For another hour the inquisition continued , almost , I felt , as though the ‘ judges ’ were scraping for any dirt they could find . |
| 7 | ‘ The police are appealing for any person who was in the area at this time and may have witnessed the incident to contact them . ’ |
| 8 | What she longed to ask him was : ‘ Have I ever been missing for any time , Steve ? |