Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] be [v-ing] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I 'm finishing me tape she 's coming for it in the morning . |
| 2 | Next Sunday she was going home for a special birthday tea they were arranging for her . |
| 3 | Hands tightly clenched , Gina broke into the slow , seductive future he was forecasting for them . |
| 4 | ‘ I need your brother back even sooner than that — though perhaps I 'd better not say what fate I 'm planning for him . ’ |
| 5 | The police have sor , have got a copy of our emergency evacuation procedures , at the moment we 're waiting for them to return it to us . |
| 6 | That day he came into Frank Green 's shop he was looking for me , and his seeing me with you nearly blew the whole thing . |
| 7 | But when she opened the door of her room he was waiting for her . |
| 8 | On this occasion he is posing for us with the ‘ stripper ’ in one of the kilns . |
| 9 | ‘ For a woman who 's dying for it , you 're holding up extremely well , ’ said Rory . |
| 10 | ‘ And there 's a passenger who 's waiting for you . |
| 11 | That 's a tenner a week they 're giving for him ! |
| 12 | But the men had to balance it up by , what they called chits , tha that came on every garment and how much er money they were getting for it . |
| 13 | ‘ Search for the man who is searching for you . ’ |
| 14 | The man who was asking for us ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ When we stopped at Glastonbury , Mistress Rachel sent a message , God knows how , to that old witch who was waiting for us with her prophecies . |
| 16 | Hurry up hippo we 're waiting for you we all want to see |
| 17 | The palace was surrounded by a crowd who were shouting for him to speak . |
| 18 | But it occurs to me that if they are having sex with their patients ( or clients ) regularly , this may well be the only useful thing they are doing for them . |
| 19 | When Sally got off the bus he was waiting for her , leaning against the bonnet , smoking a cigarette and looking more than ever the dashing young man-about-town . |
| 20 | every year I 'm looking for it to move forward a little bit . |
| 21 | On the 5th post-operative day Mr Reynolds became very distressed and eventually admitted to the nurse who was caring for him that his " water works " were the source of his concern . |
| 22 | No doubt he was waiting for her in the foyer , champing at her non-appearance . |
| 23 | Switching the engine off , he leaned over and kissed her again , and this time she was waiting for him , kissing him back with an inner longing . |
| 24 | The fourth matter upon which the appellants rely , and this is a matter of considerable importance , is that they claim to have been misled by the solicitor who was acting for them during the course of 1991 and particularly in respect of these committal proceedings . |
| 25 | This time he 's going for it . |
| 26 | This time he was waiting for me at the table . |