Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All three of them are looking for work in large towns . |
| 2 | ‘ A lot of them are planned for areas in the South Downs , which we really do n't want . |
| 3 | A few weeks of war and from what the psychiatrists are saying more than half of them are shattered for life . |
| 4 | I reckon I should nearly be home by now — I been walking for ages . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I reckon I been walking for hours now . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Now I am looking for Nigel to produce his club form . |
| 9 | So when I look in someone 's sore throat I am looking for signs of inflammation and enlarged glands . |
| 10 | ‘ If you must know , Dr Neil , and I suppose I owe you that , I am looking for work . ’ |
| 11 | I am looking for unit markings for the second aircraft , personal accounts of the crash and photos of the crash site . |
| 12 | This time it was a police sergeant , and when Joe went upstairs the sergeant said : " I am looking for Wg Cdr Mahaddie , and I am also looking for one of my constables , " Joe foolishly replied : We might have a wing commander here but we do n't have your constable . " |
| 13 | First is to Finland and it is to Penti P E N T I , and it reads as follows dear Penti , at the moment I am looking for information on the cost for officially trialing grasses and clovers in your country , stop . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I am looking for photographs of pilots , aircraft and airfields that would be available to copy and return to the original owners . |
| 16 | Now I find myself alone — that is irrelevant in terms of what happens to me , but for the idea that the Lord was homosexual , and for the perverted practices on his dead body not to be seen to be blasphemous if the case is lost — about that I am lost for words ! |
| 17 | I find I am lost for words : put down the telephone , but not before a woman snatches the phone and says , ‘ Who 's that ? |
| 18 | It 's hard to explain to you … you 're too young to understand , yet — but I am searching for El Dorado . |
| 19 | I get to the border , and I am questioned for hours , endless interrogation , and if I am travelling in a car , they open it up and they search it . |
| 20 | The subjects I am taking for examination are , Science , English , Mathematics , French , Physical Education , Geography and Art . |
| 21 | ‘ I am bound for Ludlow . ’ |
| 22 | But then with an ever deepening sinking feeling inside I realise that I am bound for failure once again . |
| 23 | At the time she did not publicly disclose why , saying only , ‘ I am leaving for reasons which I can not say . |
| 24 | Further to your report ( Echo February 4 ) , I am asking for volunteers from the Spennymoor Ward to form a steering committee to promote activities for the youth of the ward , such as Outward Bound , fishing , youth projects etc . |
| 25 | I am working for Kenamun ’ . |
| 26 | For crossing the border into Iran , he had a code ( ’ I am coming for Mustafa ’ ) , but no-one asked for it ; and so they landed in Tehran . |
| 27 | Try to pick out the sense of what I am saying For instance , it so happens that my grandson , Henry now works in the Marconi laboratory . |
| 28 | O'Leary explains : ‘ I am qualified for Ireland through my dad 's nationality , but I 've always considered myself an Essex man because I was born in Harold Wood . ’ |
| 29 | One thesis I am arguing for claims that authoritative reasons are pre-emptive : the fact that an authority requires performance of an action is a reason for its performance which is not to be added to all other relevant reasons when assessing what to do , but should exclude and take the place of some of them . |
| 30 | I am waiting for Maggie to notice me . |