Example sentences of "'re [v-ing] for [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is that one you 're knitting for Shirley ? |
| 2 | Okay , we 're looking for Mrs Hazel . |
| 3 | Well they asked for you , and your name , and I said no you were n't in , and then said we 're looking for Joanne . |
| 4 | It all depends what you 're looking for Alison . |
| 5 | Ah ! ’ she cried suddenly , ‘ you 're looking for Estella , are n't you ? |
| 6 | When she had sat down again she said : ‘ So how is it that you 're looking for Elsie now , so long after the event ? |
| 7 | So we 're looking for North Yorkshire to play to the same rules basically . |
| 8 | ‘ We 're looking for Blagg , ’ Maxim said abruptly . |
| 9 | We 're looking for Jeff and Silvia . |
| 10 | There are 26 trees marked with letters and if you 're looking for Joe Jones head for that tree with the J on it . |
| 11 | They 're looking for Michael . |
| 12 | They 're looking for Maurice 's murderers . |
| 13 | We 're looking for Sandra who lived in the village of Headon near Retford . |
| 14 | Now we 're looking for Debbie and Tony . |
| 15 | ‘ You 're looking for Edward , right ? ’ |
| 16 | So we 're looking for Lilian Parsons , not Elaine Webb ? ’ |
| 17 | We 're looking for Freddy , and that 's all we 've got . |
| 18 | I expect you 're waiting for Mr Right , ’ said the woman to Rachaela . |
| 19 | Mr de Klerk , so eager to placate Margaret Thatcher and international opinion generally , was saying , between the lines : ‘ Look , I know you 're asking for Mandela 's release . |
| 20 | Er how many times have we said , yeah , we can do this job but we 'll , it needs the route improvement that we 're doing for Arthur . |
| 21 | As my honourable friend said from the front bench , the Labour party is absolutely firmly committed now both by the voices of the leadership and the votes and the resolutions at our party conference that we are in favour of a proportional representation system for the European parliament and I hope that when the elections come Mr Deputy Speaker , and people will be arguing about why they 're voting for Europe on June the ninth in one boundary as opposed to another and why they 've got erm erm different rules for this election of course as indeed for the last European election because the registration will be different , allowing all kinds of erm how can I put it foreigners in inverted commas , to vote in our elections in this country because it is the European elections that we will actually put the point across that er for the future there will be different arrangements made indeed . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's like we 're preparing for Armageddon . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ So you 're making for Paddington ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ They 've all gone mad and they 're filling their suitcases and they 're leaving for Spain in about thirty minutes ! ’ |
| 25 | ‘ You 're leaving for Tracy , ’ she stammered at last . |
| 26 | ‘ You 're leaving for Australia tomorrow , and today is your last day . |
| 27 | So then we 're trying for Greece ? |
| 28 | The feeling intensified when she met Marshall who gave a knowing look and said : ‘ I expect you 're working for Mr Harbury . ’ |