Example sentences of "[pron] [am/are] [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | There are currently 79,000 children and young people being cared for by the local authorities in the U.K. and half of them are looking for foster homes . |
2 | Let me tell you about the Barking women most of them are dead , some of them are working for local authority . |
3 | ‘ It really was good fun , although I am hoping for fair weather for next week 's voyage . ’ |
4 | We have one possibility but the case is still under investigation and I am looking for possible motives . |
5 | I am looking for short biographies of female scientists — of any discipline — for use in school . |
6 | A first time garden is usually small and certainly the typical one I am imagining for this series is no more than 40ft x 20ft and surrounded on all sides by other houses . |
7 | ‘ I am doomed for all eternity . ’ |
8 | A paying consumer at least feels he or she can say , ‘ I am paying for this service . |
9 | ‘ I am planning for next season , even though I am not sure what the future holds . |
10 | When I arrive outside the refuge where I am to stay for several weeks ; it is a house with no name . |
11 | I 'm hoping for brisker trade on the road . ’ |
12 | I do n't think I 'm constructed for physical labour . |
13 | ‘ I 'm looking for controlled aggression and strict discipline at all times . |
14 | I 'm looking for some smokes to smoke . |
15 | ‘ I 'm looking for this girl . |
16 | Oh it 's not a case of putting the world to rights I 'm looking for this bacon |
17 | I 'm looking for another entrance . |
18 | ‘ I 'm aiming for forty feet this time . |
19 | Well I do , I 'm waiting for two patterns are n't I ? |
20 | ‘ I 'm waiting for high tide . ’ |
21 | ‘ I 'm waiting for those sluggards to bring my steak . ’ |
22 | this is what I 'm fighting for , I 'm fighting for equal rights , and I 'm fighting to get more women into further education cos I think it 's it 's a very basic that we all need to go into and it 's hard , and the openings are n't there women to go into , you 've got to fight for it , yeah ! |
23 | I 'm going for easy shots . |
24 | At 9.15 am , after his sand save on the 18th , he said : ‘ I 'm going for another kip . ’ |
25 | ‘ So I 'm asking for another week , Hilary . |
26 | Will you both come to a little party I 'm planning for next week ? |
27 | I 'm 17 , an incurable romantic and I 'm dying for cheery letters ( all I ever seem to get are bank statements ) Quick ! |
28 | ‘ I 'm dying for some punch . |
29 | Moreover , within the Brompton study data , it is particularly difficult to interpret the regression coefficients ( which are adjusted for concurrent weight throughout ) in the youngest age groups . |
30 | We er emphasised to him the impact this would have on Oxfordshire 's er spending requirements and er the hope that the er spending that we get , and we get it in two ways ; one is through , called the standard spending grant , that is a general grant that was given to authorities to spend as they wish , and the other is a specific grants which are given for particular purposes , and some of them cover the legislation that I have mentioned , which we are required to spend specifically on the items for which they 're given . |