Example sentences of "is [v-ing] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The whole of this club is rooting for him and wishing him well , ’ added the comparatively young Liverpool chairman , who admitted to finding his first year in office ‘ a difficult baptism ’ . |
| 2 | And what we 're trying to do is to give him this family feeling that everybody behind here , the whole team , every single worker is rooting for him and making sure that he has the best . |
| 3 | ( The pen is weeping for me . ) |
| 4 | That money in the consumer 's pocket : who else is competing for it ? |
| 5 | Why do n't you ask the name of the governess , and why everybody is looking for her ? ’ |
| 6 | They are husbands , ergo , she is looking for them . |
| 7 | In every prima facae case there are always anomalies if somebody is looking for them . ’ |
| 8 | ’ Famlio is looking for us in other sectors . |
| 9 | ‘ Inspector Lane is looking for you , sir . |
| 10 | Chris is looking for you . |
| 11 | That Ben is looking for you . |
| 12 | It seems that they can be market counterparties even if the firm acts only as their agent and , indeed , even if the firm is acting for them on a discretionary basis . |
| 13 | The summons is returned to you , or whoever is acting for you , by the Sheriff clerk with two dates marked on it . |
| 14 | ‘ Search for the man who is searching for you . ’ |
| 15 | If the very young , and sometimes the educationally very backward , are taught , or perhaps more accurately indoctrinated , with the idea that there is a ‘ god ’ who approves the teaching , who is caring for them , and who will provide for their needs , they will believe this , even when a state of intense deprivation confutes this every day of their lives . |
| 16 | The state provides housing for children , and hence for whoever is caring for them . |
| 17 | The reason for this , I later discovered , is that at yours there is likely to be a selection of friends and relations , one of whom in the course of discussion is bound to say , ‘ Come on , let's give him the best ! ’ and although he or she is very seldom the one who is paying for it , no one likes to appear mean at such a time — an attitude , I might add , of which the undertaker thoroughly approves ! |
| 18 | Her only worry is paying for it all . |
| 19 | After all , it is yearning for you to grow . |
| 20 | Olympic champion Chris Boardman is going for it he 's riding in a twenty five mile time trial and will be setting off from Cumnor at six o clock … if you want to see him he 'll be wizzing up and down the A420 and the A34 … |
| 21 | Thursday the tenth of February on Wednesday the ninth , now this is all on the assumption that everything is going for us |
| 22 | All Ruritania is waiting for him in Strelsau and Black Michael with half the army , too . |
| 23 | And I would willingly get down and help you , but Mrs Carson is waiting for me . ’ |
| 24 | The work with patients who had the delusion of being watched , and who spoke of the watcher as another person in terms like the following : ‘ He is waiting for me to go now ’ , or ‘ He thinks I should do such and such ’ , had first led Freud to suggest that a part of a person 's ego can keep watch over another part . |
| 25 | Death is waiting for me there Before I get to Cordoba . |
| 26 | My friend is waiting for me . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ My wife is waiting for me , ’ I said . |
| 28 | Is waiting for me , |
| 29 | ‘ Death is waiting for me no less , ’ he said low and gently into her ear , ‘ and for you . |
| 30 | This can actually produce those distressing occasions when , for example , a husband and wife are sitting there looking at each other , the dying one trying very hard to get on and die because they understand everyone is waiting for them to do so , and the survivor trapped with their feelings of guilt about wishing their relative would die , whilst at the same time not being able to leave the person 's side in case they miss the moment . |