Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [be] [v-ing] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps I am atoning for my misspent youth , ’ he replied amiably . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps I 'm waiting for you to ask me how I am . ’ |
| 3 | So I were working for nothing really . |
| 4 | Er Chairman I 'm perhaps I could also suggest that we change the word suggested erm because that i i it , perhaps you are looking for something slightly stronger erm er so it could just say in accordance with paragraphs two four to two nine or the points made in paragraph two point |
| 5 | Perhaps you 're thinking about a new car or a holiday ; a house deposit or a home improvement scheme ; a wedding or family celebration ; perhaps you are preparing for your retirement . |
| 6 | so you 're looking for them be eighty fives |
| 7 | Perhaps he is working for someone else . |
| 8 | Or perhaps he was waiting for them to start counting their blessings there and then . |
| 9 | So he 's waiting for you to come up and have a look at it . |
| 10 | So he was fighting for his state against Florida and against other states who were trying to get these public projects . |
| 11 | So he was waiting for him ? |
| 12 | And she saying like he 's waiting for his accomplice like and they 've said they 've broken in . |
| 13 | No really I 'm waiting for it |
| 14 | Now I 'm looking for something for Penny , which is n't very expensive but nice , you know . |
| 15 | I 've spent the last 40 years protesting about all sorts of things and now I 'm protesting for my railway , not theirs , ours . |
| 16 | Now 'e 's payin' for it . |
| 17 | She had already had one nervous breakdown , which was no doubt a great nuisance to everybody , and now she was heading for something worse : agoraphobia . |
| 18 | And now she was heading for us , the biro between her teeth , the light of battle glinting behind her frameless glasses . |
| 19 | ‘ Graham Gooch should have sorted the problem out , he did not , and now we are paying for it . ’ |
| 20 | When I came back they were waiting for me . |
| 21 | Low and behold when I got back they were waiting for me you see ? |
| 22 | Now they are appealing for anyone to hold fund-raising events to boost the coffers . |
| 23 | Now they are appealing for anyone to hold fund-raising events to boost the coffers . |
| 24 | ’ But now they 're looking for me everywhere , ’ She went on . |
| 25 | Now he 's looking for his next challenge . |
| 26 | The tragedy of it is though he 's paying for it now with his kidney problems . |
| 27 | Well I 'm looking for my glasses really |
| 28 | Well I 'm waiting for you . |
| 29 | Well that 's fine for Elizabeth but Catherine 's sort of half left school , if she has n't she 's waiting for her G C S Es and she 's not sure whether she 's got to go back or what she 's doing . |
| 30 | ‘ Should n't you be working for your mother ? ’ |