Example sentences of "he is [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man who advertised for a woman to live on a desert island with him is looking for another female travelling companion to repeat the trip . |
| 2 | He is noted for possessing a ferocious intellectual curiosity — and when I asked him what he was reading while cruising across the Atlantic on Concorde , he said without flinching , Conversations with Isaiah Berlin . |
| 3 | He is selected for that reason , because he will not be suspected by the police . ’ |
| 4 | Sir Terence adds that he is enclosing for Christopher Patten a copy of the rules which the Cabinet Office has issued for the guidance of officials ‘ on such exercises ’ . |
| 5 | In his design he is credited for seeing that ‘ auditorium planning need not be inconsistent with good architecture ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ He is thinking for England . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ He is thinking for England , ’ said Isambard bluntly , ‘ and for Hubert , too . |
| 8 | I must tell you , if you do n't already know from the newspapers , that he is cared for by a most responsive nurse who has been enabled by hormone therapy to breast feed him . |
| 9 | Cobb argues that social support arises in the eye of the beholder , and is anything that influences the person to perceive himself as the recipient of positive affect ; any information ‘ leading the subject to believe that he is cared for and loved … esteemed and valued … ’ |
| 10 | He is looking for that quality which you must allow me to call ‘ modernity ’ ; for I know of no better word to express the idea I have in mind . |
| 11 | ‘ He has been crying out for support for ages , and I am sure that this new opportunity is just what he is looking for . ’ |
| 12 | He is looking for a partner to retain the pub as a viable business . |
| 13 | Understandably , he is looking for a place where he can not be reached , A Retreat where he can enjoy an unearned or undeserved equilibrium . |
| 14 | Following the completion of the acquisition of Framlington 's private client fund management business in January and the recruitment of five new investment managers in Liverpool , he is looking for increased investment revenues in this year . |
| 15 | ‘ This could be the very opening he is looking for . |
| 16 | Their daughter , Shelagh , has moved to Belfast where she has a job in an office but her younger brother , Sean helps here and there on the farm while he is looking for some other work , sadly without too much hope , since there is already much unemployment in the towns . |
| 17 | Mentally or instinctively he is looking for the pattern and his antennae are an outward expression of that inward instinct . |
| 18 | ‘ He is looking for Mademoiselle Céline de Mont-Mercure . ’ |
| 19 | He is looking for letters from potential puchasers of Loch Lomond , the troubled up-market golf and country club development of which he was appointed administrator in November 1990 . |
| 20 | Mr Gatoff says he is looking for offers in the region of £15m . |
| 21 | This requires a successful I test , with a -20 penalty , for any character who specifically states he is looking for something out of the ordinary . |
| 22 | But Regan wilfully distorts this into the implication that we can never say in advance that a given proposal has been drawn up by an incompetent researcher who does n't know what he is looking for … |
| 23 | The new chief executive of the Munich conglomerate , Heinrich von Pierer , told the Wall Street Journal that he is interested in one or more ‘ strategic partners ’ for Siemens Nixdorf , saying that what he is looking for is joint development and possibly manufacturing of a broad range of hardware with one or more competitors . |
| 24 | He is looking for companies worth between $1.5m and $8m , and the preferred fields , as well as library systems , are systems for construction companies , financial institutions , hotels , property management companies and manufacturing and distribution organisations . |
| 25 | He indicates that he is looking for £150m.The defence division had appeared as a ‘ blot on our copy books ’ , he said — pre-tax profits at the business plunged to £1.5m from £13.2m , and turnover slipped to £425m from the £436.5m of a year ago . |
| 26 | ( b ) He must take reasonable steps to explain what he is looking for and the basis of his suspicion ( s.2(3) ( b ) ) . |
| 27 | It may be that the correct account of knowledge does unfortunately give the sceptic the opening he is looking for . |
| 28 | He is looking for an easy rapport , but he does not want it to be too easy . |
| 29 | ‘ And he is looking for drugs ? ’ |
| 30 | The social anthropologist can find what he is looking for in either . |