Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I think that a few words from me are called for , as you say . ’ |
| 2 | A great majority of them are looking for the theatre of books , and it is not there . |
| 3 | There are currently 79,000 children and young people being cared for by the local authorities in the U.K. and half of them are looking for foster homes . |
| 4 | Little wonder , really , that right now the two of them are looking for the time of their life with someone of their own age . |
| 5 | All three of them are looking for work in large towns . |
| 6 | ‘ A lot of them are planned for areas in the South Downs , which we really do n't want . |
| 7 | Foreign Minister Levi told the Knesset ( parliament ) on March 18 : " Those who carried out the murder and those who sent them are destined for a painful punishment . |
| 8 | Where an employer seeks to impose new terms , he necessarily faces the problem of the previously bargained contract of employment and must initially show a sound good business reason to justify the changes when dismissals resulting from refusals to accept them are assessed for their fairness . |
| 9 | Many of them are farming for little more than the subsidies . |
| 10 | It might also encourage the lordly ones who run the Trust to see that its properties only have real value and interest when set in a wider social background that the rather greenery-yallery context in which too many of them are set for us by the Trust 's publications . |
| 11 | Let me tell you about the Barking women most of them are dead , some of them are working for local authority . |
| 12 | A few weeks of war and from what the psychiatrists are saying more than half of them are shattered for life . |
| 13 | Had I been sent for much earlier I would have tried to turn the baby — but now … it 's too late . |
| 14 | What have I been criticized for at work ? |
| 15 | This one er what 's , what 's going on , he said well what I been called for |
| 16 | What have I been praised for at work ? |
| 17 | I reckon I should nearly be home by now — I been walking for ages . |
| 18 | I reckon I been walking for hours now . |
| 19 | And proud too , cos blimey , I been walking for ages and when I get back home she 'll think I been real clever to find my own way back , and I ai n't got a yellow card or nothing . |
| 20 | Aycliffe and I are trying for a way to have the will stand . |
| 21 | ‘ Pettigrew and I are going for a stroll , ’ said Mark , who had been finding the atmosphere of the tea room rather oppressive and not really what he had come to Rome for . |
| 22 | ‘ It really was good fun , although I am hoping for fair weather for next week 's voyage . ’ |
| 23 | The eighty six million pounds I am providing for care in the community is an increase of almost fifty million pounds on nineteen build on the introduction of the service in ninety three , ninety four year . |
| 24 | It would not be whimsical to suggest that I still go to Arsenal now because of what Swindon did to me then : like a gambler who keeps playing because it is the only way to win back what he has lost , I still feel , somewhere in me , that I am owed for what Ian Ure and Jon Sammels and Bobby Gould put me through that afternoon . |
| 25 | Almost as soon as he was nominated , Mr Mazowiecki said ‘ I am looking for my Ludwig Erhard ’ . |
| 26 | I am looking for photographs , from 1926 to the present day , of ladies or family groups in period dress together with cars , if possible Jaguar cars . |
| 27 | So I let her just pass , and said , ‘ Oh , darling , I am looking for a new ‘ element ’ … ’ ; and after half an hour the manager came back to me and said that she was sitting upstairs weeping . |
| 28 | I am looking for a 2hr 8min pace and I prepared to take it up if it falls below that . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ But , actually , I am looking for someone younger . ’ |
| 30 | I am looking for short biographies of female scientists — of any discipline — for use in school . |