Example sentences of "what [pron] [be] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I am suggesting for an understanding of the workings of television generic fiction and its associated forms of subjectivity ( or , indeed , of narrative cinema and its subjectivity ) , is that it may be more fruitful if we approach it as an historical development of the complex , theoretical genre of novelistic discourse rather than as a collection of autonomous elementary , historical genres . |
| 2 | I have no compass to tell me what I am destined for ; and yet , when I look back , everything seems to fit as well together as if I 'd been following a benevolent daimon all along … |
| 3 | I believe you are exactly what I am looking for . |
| 4 | He left when he was eighteen , presumably with the cry so often heard from those who look for instant wisdom in courses designed primarily to foster skills by which such discrimination may be attained : " the course can not give me what I am looking for " . |
| 5 | I do n't know what I am looking for , and I do n't find it . |
| 6 | However , that is what I am paid for as a full- time member of staff . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ What I am pleading for is a widening of belief from the received views of God . |
| 9 | This one er what 's , what 's going on , he said well what I been called for |
| 10 | I 'm sweating and straining my ears , unsure what I 'm listening for . |
| 11 | That 's what I 'm striving for . ’ |
| 12 | erm clarification because for people like me that are interested in the total provision of employment land in the district , erm what I 'm hearing for example in the case of Harrogate is that there is an allocation of employment land of of sixty hectares plus the Greater York allocation . |
| 13 | natural and I 'm and I never was , but I like to know what I 'm voting for and I like to tell the people who I 'm responsible for what they are voting for . |
| 14 | I like the way I dress , though , I 've always had this thing for a sports look , that 's what I 'm aiming for . |
| 15 | I think it 's what I 'm aiming for , what I want to say about myself . ’ |
| 16 | I 'm not sure what I 'm aiming for when I look in the mirror . |
| 17 | That 's it this is it it 's something that 's unusual because with stuff like I 'll I can see what I 'm aiming for . |
| 18 | ‘ Obviously the return we get is good in public relations terms , but what I 'm searching for is a better quality of recruit . ’ |
| 19 | What I 'm searching for is the right comparison . |
| 20 | Now I know what I 'm looking for . |
| 21 | But in the end , it 's usually not what I 'm looking for . ’ |
| 22 | Safe rave tabs — could this be what I 'm looking for ? |
| 23 | She might just be the key to what I 'm looking for … ’ |
| 24 | Roger , Terry and David , er need to take this away , have a look at it and at the next meeting we either then draw some conclusions and again what I 'm looking for |
| 25 | What , what I 'm looking for i i are two things really . |
| 26 | What I 'm looking for , this is part of |
| 27 | What I 'm looking for is feedback from the clients which say , yeah , these reports are alright as far as they go but really I do n't want all that information or I want this information . |
| 28 | ‘ No need to help me , ’ she said , ‘ I know exactly what I 'm looking for . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Maybe that 's what I 'm looking for . ’ |
| 30 | I 'm not really sure what , what I 'm looking for . |