Example sentences of "be [v-ing] out for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert Taylor has been listening out for the sounds of an economic recovery |
| 2 | I 've been looking out for you . " |
| 3 | If it had been someone else 's funeral George would have been looking out for the nearest pub . |
| 4 | If she had n't been looking out for the signpost , she could easily have driven past without even realising it was there . |
| 5 | Secondly , you are looking out for minor defects which will cost you time and money — plumbing , heating redecoration , bathroom and kitchen fittings , replacement windows , floor finishes , insulation etc . |
| 6 | For this reason , an all-round practice gives better training than a specialised one — but it may be well worth taking articles in a specialised firm if you are assured that they are looking out for a bright young man/woman like you to be a partner . |
| 7 | This applies also to the British Council , our arm of cultural diplomacy , which is facing unprecedented demands from the newly liberated countries which are looking out for English language teachers . |
| 8 | You need to be very familiar with the text , you ca n't learn it word-for-word for goodness sake , but you certainly are able to identify all the key issues and key aspects of it and that 's what you 're looking out for , so you could re-tell the story again , you can re-tell the story again yourself accurately , identifying all the key points . |
| 9 | ‘ Every client I treat usually loses at least an inch — so it 's ideal if you 're going out for the evening and want to wear a specially tight outfit . ’ |
| 10 | Is n't it awful to think your legs decide what your retirement 's going to be , but they do , more or less , so that if you th if you think a if you 've ever had any trouble with them you 'll realize , people say , you know , would you , we 're going out for the day , you coming ? |
| 11 | look it does n't matter now because we 're going out for some milk , here |
| 12 | Monday we 're going out for dinner . |
| 13 | Has Mum told you that we 're going out for a Chinese ? |
| 14 | These friends from up north are coming for the weekend , so we 're going out for the weekend |
| 15 | And that 's all now so Val said she said I said to Cheryl now do n't you go and take Mervy away cos me and Ken certainly are n't gon na go and sit sit with erm the 's all dinner time so she said what they 're gon na do , they 're going out for the meal and everything and then they 're Ken are gon na go to Cheryl 's for the rest of the day So I said so that 's upset your plans then Val she said is n't it just ! |
| 16 | Right , that 's why you 're going out for the whole evening , for the water eh ? |
| 17 | ‘ You 're holding out for a wedding-ring , ’ he said flatly . |
| 18 | ‘ We 're crying out for a replacement for Gary Lineker , ’ said Horton , ‘ and a front two of Bull and Shearer does n't sound bad to me . |
| 19 | It 's very good good erm good thing for the party and they 're usually quite starved of practical campaigning ideas and so we regularly try every at least every year to go and do a tour and erm we 've been giving them we we 're trying to rope them in on the various activities because they 're crying out for |
| 20 | Look , they 're coming out for play time . |
| 21 | ‘ And what kind of dybbuk informs their victim that they 're slipping out for a little coffee-break or whatever ? ’ |
| 22 | The decision makers we 're screaming out for . |
| 23 | If I take one example as more updated version of Hammett and Chandler , one of the most successful writers I think in financial terms in America since the Second World War has been a man called Kenneth Miller , who writes under the name of Ross Macdonald , and has been turning out for , oh , the best part of thirty years now , novels about a Californian private eye called Lou Archer . |
| 24 | Sitting in the unlikely setting of Birmingham Museum 's Edwardian Tea Room , our ( anti ) heroes seem a little shocked at the way things are turning out for them . |
| 25 | Sitting in the unlikely setting of Birmingham Museum 's Edwardian Tea Room , our ( anti ) heroes seem a little shocked at the way things are turning out for them . |
| 26 | I was sorry for Jennifer but they had only been going out for a month or so , and not terribly seriously . |
| 27 | ‘ The Division 's been going out for the last fifteen years ; slowly but surely . ’ |
| 28 | My boyfriend and I have been going out for six weeks and everything is wonderful but it takes me honestly two hours to reach orgasm . |
| 29 | You may have to carry a spare set if you are going out for a full day 's detecting as charge life can be as low as five hours , and ni-cads should not be recharged until they are spent . |
| 30 | we a we are going , we are going out for a meal on Saturday night i er , in , with or without , we 're going out , I 've er we want to go to the when we went with . |