Example sentences of "and [adv] [pron] [be] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | and suddenly she was listening for dogs |
| 2 | And perhaps they were hoping for an innocence that was long past both of them … |
| 3 | What about the day she collapsed in the the hairdressers and only we 're going for a drink . |
| 4 | It was 1973 and already we were preparing for the move to the States . |
| 5 | It opened only this month , and already it 's noted for its cuisine and cellar . ’ |
| 6 | The interval bell sounded , and soon I was waiting for Jock to introduce me , and striding on . |
| 7 | And always he was scratching for crumbs . |
| 8 | I think , I think more and more we 're going for two , two things . |
| 9 | Partly I am mesmerised by its spinach-green tanks and cowling , its red pulleys , dogs and levers , its greasy leather belts , its twitching , glittering blades , stink of hot oil , petrol , exhaust … and partly I am praying for the chance that something — I 've no idea what , but just something — may go wrong … so that I , Jimbo , the firstborn , may step into the breach and save the day . |
| 10 | And now we are to wait for the next ethnic war to intervene to salve our pitifully insensitive consciences and our failure to shape and conduct an effective policy : a neat one , no complications , allowing intervention with few , possibly no , losses . |
| 11 | ‘ Graham Gooch should have sorted the problem out , he did not , and now we are paying for it . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ They have a good idea who they are after and now they are looking for evidence to back it up . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ They were out of work and underprivileged and now they are working for cut rates . ’ |
| 14 | I 've spent the last 40 years protesting about all sorts of things and now I 'm protesting for my railway , not theirs , ours . |
| 15 | A sample : We 're coming in to land at Speke My legs are feeling very weak We 've just returned from Barcelona And now I 'm going for a sauna Toshack is of Scottish descent , and there is certainly a bit of McGonagall in there , though not the best bit . |
| 16 | And now it was looking for a graveyard . |
| 17 | HARDMAN Basile Boli has already left his mark on England 's Psycho — and now he 's gunning for the man they call Attila . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And now she was heading for us , the biro between her teeth , the light of battle glinting behind her frameless glasses . |
| 20 | Fortunately , the bias against other accents and dialects has waned in recent years and today they are appreciated for the variety they bring to the language . |
| 21 | You had the split shifts and the down shifts and maybe we were called for er a |
| 22 | Yeah and then we were looking for some carpeting were n't we ? |
| 23 | One obvious example is the telephone number that is looked up , the directory closed , and then one is distracted for a moment by someone asking the time . |
| 24 | well er he 's still getting certain things in like doors I think and er , what have you , but er , and then he 's going for the D I Y sort of stuff now , I think he 's stocking that |
| 25 | And then he was leaving for the Devon summer school . |
| 26 | That 's no problem , so you 're looking for ten thousand pounds worth of life cover for yourself and then you 're looking for twenty eight to thirty thousand for your daughter projected forward |
| 27 | And then I was coughing for ages then mum goes oh you , I go oh , I feel terrible ! |
| 28 | But when I looked down , I saw the board was all made of bones and wire ; and I screamed and you said , " Swim — everybody swim " ; and then I was looking for you everywhere and trying to drag you out of a hole in the bank . |
| 29 | The injustice is that the donkey is beaten until it collapses and then it is beaten for collapsing . |
| 30 | Well , the procedure that followed in this case was that the er captain obviously made clear from er H M S erm Battleaxe that was originally involved , that the embargo would be enforced , er and obviously his message got across , and then it was arranged for marines to go aboard , er which they did to take charge of , of the vessel while the search took place . |