Example sentences of "that [pron] be [v-ing] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A series of complex and powerful planetary influences suggest that everyone 's gunning for you this month . |
| 2 | I point out that I 'm paying for my half , but they both ignore this . |
| 3 | ‘ being a common prostitute ’ Proof of this point must be available to negate any defence of accident or mistake , e.g. ‘ That I was waiting for my boy friend or taxi etc . ’ |
| 4 | It is extremely likely , also , that someone was waiting for them at their intended destination . |
| 5 | cos you could , I mean if if she asked you about it , you know , you could just say well honestly I 'm quite , I did n't think you were the kind of person who 'd go for I know , I know that thing is I mean I can see , I can see that she 's going for him because |
| 6 | So I do believe in me soul that she 's working for me . |
| 7 | She was sad in advance , and yet at the same time all the happier , doubly happy , for knowing that she recognized her happiness , that it was not slipping by her unheeded , for knowing that she was creating for herself a past . |
| 8 | But he could read her too well , and he could see that she was hoping for something more . |
| 9 | Instead , there were rustlings , faint and unintelligible mutterings suggesting that she was looking for something , more footsteps going downstairs , a sharp sound like the slamming of a door and then complete silence . |
| 10 | She dreamt that she was searching for something glorious : it could have been money , it could have been love , she did not know . |
| 11 | Once again Scott felt that she was asking for something unreasonable , something a child might ask of a parent . |
| 12 | I have in fact si since seeing this sent her a copy of the paper I put to this meeting , erm , having seen that , because I did n't know that she was waiting for it to the commentary with . |
| 13 | Having turned towards your track at a certain angle , you now wait for your RC to move to a bearing where it is displace from 0° ( station ahead ) or from 180° ( station astern ) the same number of degrees that you are using for your interception angle . |
| 14 | ( 2 ) If you know who they are , write to the conveyancers for the seller or buyer , as the case may be , confirming that you are acting for your client , and if your client is the buyer asking for the draft contract documentation , or if you act for the seller , either sending or promising to send the draft agreement for sale . |
| 15 | Are these jobs , that you are doing for your client absolutely perfect ? |
| 16 | ‘ Well , anyway , the fact that the whole of Europe is against you shows that we 're fighting for something worth-while . ’ |
| 17 | Right this is a new thing for experimental work that we 're doing for them is it ? |
| 18 | Erm , I ca n't remember the exact conversation but the basics of it were that we were looking for somebody called Lawrence and he was at the present time at erm and that he was in possession of a gun and that the caller was concerned for the safety of the occupants of those premises . |
| 19 | But what er , I said , told Pete because I had another call when you were at lunch I think and erm he said he 'd heard rumours that we were looking for somebody . |
| 20 | What makes this particular story so tragic is that while Jeremy fought to survive , no doubt focusing his efforts on the hope that we were looking for him , a succession of minor acts of negligence , committed by both the Spanish authorities and the British Consul , conspired to delay a proper search being mounted . |
| 21 | ‘ People asked me and Derrick what we were doing over the past two years and the answer that I want to give is that we were waiting for everybody to catch up . |
| 22 | All he could say was that we were waiting for something to happen . ’ |
| 23 | You have seen that we were waiting for you . |
| 24 | Thursday the tenth of February on Wednesday the ninth , now this is all on the assumption that everything is going for us |
| 25 | We can observe many examples in non-linguistic behaviour of the use of signals to regulate turn-taking : in many sports , for example , it is necessary to do this — footballers can indicate that they are looking for someone to pass the ball to , or that they are ready to receive the ball , and doubles partners in tennis can indicate to each other who is to play a shot . |
| 26 | When birds are released from cages , they flap and stretch at a very high rate , suggesting that they are compensating for their earlier restriction . |
| 27 | Burns has reminded his players — the best paid footballers in the First Division — that they are playing for their future livelihoods . |
| 28 | Sometimes the tears come for no reason ( by which phrase we mean that someone is not crying for a particular reason , for something or someone in particular , but that they are crying for everything ) . |
| 29 | When Philip was alone in the wood he imagined all sorts of things about the planes , that they were enemy planes bombing Thirkett , that they were on reconnaissance flights spying , that they were looking for him : a crashed pilot hiding out in the wood . |
| 30 | He cleared the image and , for a while sat there , conscious that they were waiting for him to say what was on his mind . |