Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [be] [verb] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Declaring that she believed she was speaking for everyone , she expressed gratitude for the splendour of the hospitality provided by La Belle France , thanked the president personally , and added a few more words of the sort which well-brought-up people employ on such occasions . |
| 2 | ‘ A little , ’ she admitted , and because she guessed he was waiting for her to flinch she became determined to show no sign of pain . |
| 3 | ‘ He flew back today and heard I was working for you , so he — ’ |
| 4 | I figured he was waiting for you to wake up , Sleeping-Beauty-style , at which point he 'd marry you and make very tender love to you . ’ |
| 5 | When Jessica poked her in the ribs and swore they were coming for them , she hardly raised her head . |
| 6 | I knew I was looking for something . |
| 7 | I really genuinely thought I was speaking for everyone , but they would now say they did n't particularly agree with me . |
| 8 | We thought you was looking for us , that 's all . ’ |
| 9 | But they knew they were working for him , and each of them was hoping that if the jewel were found it would be he who would have found it . |
| 10 | Melanie knew they were coming for her and started . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't think they knew anyone was looking for them . ’ |
| 12 | She knew he was waiting for her to agree , and it was desperation , pure and simple , she thought , that made her remember the elegant blonde he had been dining with that particular night . |
| 13 | Then he remembered he was looking for his friend . |
| 14 | So I said I was waiting for my sister , Mrs Webb . |
| 15 | ‘ You said you were looking for me . ’ |
| 16 | Mind you , I mean , we got no whisky anyway so I said she 's looking for somebody who erm drinks at erm a spot of whisky . |
| 17 | So when we went to Stylus Records and Telstar you know they were more than than happy to have because they seemed but I think that at at the start had we been looking for somebody here to take us over probably it would never have happened . |
| 18 | They said they were looking for me and I had to go with them back to the convent . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Those burglars he sent — you said they were looking for something . |
| 20 | Said they were talking for somebody big . |
| 21 | Well , maybe they were n't his exact words , but I expect he would have come up with something like that had he been asked for his thoughts on Carter 's ‘ Only Living Boy In New Cross ’ . |
| 22 | The Nobel committee said it was given for their work towards a peaceful ending of apartheid and for laying the foundation for a democratic South Africa . |