Example sentences of "[pron] may be [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may be heading for the infernal scrap-heap , but I still have my professional pride . |
| 2 | His family have a message for other parents who may be hoping for a similar hospital place for their glue-sniffing child |
| 3 | There must also be no opportunity for anyone to claim that you have been given , or are giving , preferential treatment which puts you or others at an advantage , for example , over other organisations who may be tendering for the same work or other colleagues working for the organisation . |
| 4 | Even he who may be paying for them ! |
| 5 | You may be looking for light domestic help one or two hours per week , or 24-hour a day care . |
| 6 | For more advanced students , on the other hand , you may be looking for material where the pictures give less support and the comprehension challenge is correspondingly greater . |
| 7 | On the other hand , you may be looking for video material which gives your students the experience of listening to speech against background noise , coming from speakers who are making no concessions to their listeners . |
| 8 | If you are not , you may be heading for potential losses which could have been avoided and you are almost certainly not trading as effectively or profitably as you should ! |
| 9 | The series coincides with activities you may be planning for human rights day on 10 December . |
| 10 | You may be asking for inner guidance on a daily basis , not knowing that inspiration is already being given to you every time the need arises within your life . |
| 11 | ‘ She may be itching for me to leave , but what with the heat and having to fight his corner — ’ he cast her a droll look ‘ — this weary traveller is on the point of dehydration . ’ |
| 12 | In making a comparison we may be looking for points of similarity in order to aid our recognition ( and consequent action ) or we may be looking for points of difference . |
| 13 | In making a comparison we may be looking for points of similarity in order to aid our recognition ( and consequent action ) or we may be looking for points of difference . |
| 14 | At the meeting , the most important point to convey is that your alternative proposals need not be to their detriment , either in financial terms or in the provision of any accommodation they may be hoping for in a new development on the site . |
| 15 | We hear they may be trying for 2.5 volts to reduce heat on the part . |
| 16 | Those who give the impression that they are fishing for information ; they may be looking for a recommendation for somebody else who may be suitable to approach . |
| 17 | ‘ They may be making for Kenmore . ’ |
| 18 | And once the ships came , they could hinder the disembarkation and delay the eleven hundred in their march , wherever they may be making for . |
| 19 | Or he may be looking for a particular foodplant , or flower for nectar , searching for a special smell or a particular electromagnetic emission . |
| 20 | And here for example you might have the recreational mind , healthy mind and body the existential , the person who as much as anything may be looking for an experience based on meditation , er religion , this sort of thing . |