Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] for [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Almost as soon as he was nominated , Mr Mazowiecki said ‘ I am looking for my Ludwig Erhard ’ . |
| 3 | I am listening for your instruction ’ ( McGavran and Arn 1977:29 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ But I am paying for her services . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps I am atoning for my misspent youth , ’ he replied amiably . |
| 6 | I am to stay for your sake . |
| 7 | I am waiting for my Mama , and neither Martha nor Minna can comfort me . |
| 8 | It used to be ‘ I 'm doing my law moderations ’ — he pursed his lips and wagged his head — ‘ but these last couple of years it 's been , ‘ I 'm reading for my finals ’ . |
| 9 | I 've spent the last 40 years protesting about all sorts of things and now I 'm protesting for my railway , not theirs , ours . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm looking for my children , I do n't know where they are . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm looking for my friend , Carl Bixman , ’ says Anna . |
| 12 | I 'm looking for my cousin . |
| 13 | I 'm looking for my two cousins . |
| 14 | I 'm looking for my cousin , a Dolly . |
| 15 | ‘ I was adopted , and I 'm looking for my real mother . ’ |
| 16 | No , I 'm looking for my two daughters . |
| 17 | Well I 'm looking for my glasses really |
| 18 | Oh you are , oh right erm I 'm searching for your prize list I know I had one there all these bits of paper you have to bring in every day . |
| 19 | ‘ With all the money I 'm paying for your education , you should learn more than that ’ … |
| 20 | While I 'm paying for your time , we 'll discuss whatever I think necessary , ’ and if that was n't enough to send her temper soaring , ‘ So , for a start , you can begin by telling me why , when I know as fact that two men at least hang their hat up in your home , you 're so intent — the glasses , the schoolmarm hairstyle — on living up to the Miss Frostbite label they 've pinned on you here ? ’ |
| 21 | I point out that I 'm paying for my half , but they both ignore this . |
| 22 | ‘ Yes , thanks , ’ I said , taking one , ‘ I 'm waiting for my husband . ’ |
| 23 | And I 'm out a lot , I tend to just slurp down a cup of Slimma-soup , stick a wee dollop of quiche in the microwave or something while I 'm waiting for my Carmens to heat up . |
| 24 | We had Nick Kent on The Joystrings , Julie Burchill on the road with Sounds Of Blackness , and Charles Shaar Murray considering whether or not The Man represents a returning Jesus in Lou Reed 's ‘ I 'm Waiting For My Man ’ . |
| 25 | I 'm waiting for my own funds . ’ |
| 26 | Do I tell him I 'm waiting for my friend Vinnie ? |
| 27 | No , , I 'm waiting for my pay up ! |
| 28 | Some of the reasons they encountered for not losing weight included ‘ I have n't been to the toilet yet today ’ , ‘ I 've been arguing with my husband ’ , ‘ I absorb fat through my skin ’ , ( especially popular with people working in chip shops and serving school meals ) and ‘ it 's the cough medicine I 'm having for my sore throat ’ . |
| 29 | I 'm going for my lunch now . |
| 30 | I 'm begging for my family , not for myself . |