Example sentences of "[vb -s] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attendance at these affairs , which involves queueing for the sandwiches , queueing for a glimpse of the Queen , queueing for the lavatories , queueing to leave , is potent evidence of the continuing talismanic influence of the monarchy . |
| 2 | For example , a work placement involves trawling for candidates , testing and form-filling and preliminary sifts before the interview followed by induction and training after the interview . |
| 3 | Tom 's work mostly involves checking for sharp teeth and rasping them smooth . |
| 4 | I suggest that you rapidly review your attitude to your wife 's sexual and emotional needs — before she starts looking for love play elsewhere . |
| 5 | Kate obtains a copy of Sheila Kitzinger 's The New Good Birth Guide and Gordon Bourne 's Pregnancy and starts looking for a hospital that gets two stars and is nearby . |
| 6 | She had now reached the age when one starts looking for a husband rather more systematically than one does at nineteen or even at twenty-one . |
| 7 | When anything like this happens in Waldron City everybody starts shouting for action , and as they have n't much idea just what kind of action they expect they take it out on the administration , and that means Wilson . |
| 8 | While I will grant you that it beats filing for the Inland Revenue , it is a suitcase existence and no matter how glamorous the location of the meeting we very rarely see beyond the airport , the hotel and the stadium . |
| 9 | But perhaps one of the most special attractions at Boscobel lies waiting for you in the fields beyond the garden . |
| 10 | It may of course be a partner who is the one who needs caring for . |
| 11 | When he is sufficiently reassured of this , he starts caring for being thought well of by his contemporaries , and later still comes the need to be a leader . |
| 12 | ‘ She is so smooth and voluptuous to drive , ’ she gasps slowing for road works . |
| 13 | It is a lively body of law capable of adaption and expansion to meet fresh needs calling for the exertion of the discipline of law . ’ |
| 14 | FASB drops accounting for investments project |
| 15 | I feel genuinely hostile to an undergraduate ( supposedly one of the best educated people in the country ) who writes asking for sponsorship for some project and who does not know how to begin or end his letter or how to spell the name of the person to whom he is appealing . |
| 16 | ‘ So Billy Tuckett gets badly scared and starts running for where he thinks his old friend Lucy Scarrott lives . ’ |
| 17 | Faith 's day starts at around 6am when baby Jake wakes up and starts yelling for a feed . |
| 18 | Your speedo needs changing for a LWB or recalibrating by a specialist company . |
| 19 | It is quite possible to put a 4 cylinder engine into your 6 cylinder Land Rover The gearbox bell housing needs changing for a 4 cylinder version and the engine mountings must be cut off the chassis and moved backwards 6 inches Use a 4 cylinder exhaust system and cut 6 inches from the front pipe Use the 6 cylinder clutch Throttle linkage can be adapted from 4 cylinder cable , fuel pipes need modifying and the electric fuel pump removed Water pipes can be lengthened or use One Ten pipes cut to suit . |
| 20 | As PC Lesley Harrison lies fighting for her life in hospital the Government should take immediate steps to ensure that anybody who attacks a member of any of the security services is imprisoned for a long time . |
| 21 | It is ideal as a mulch , where the bacteria can get all the air they want to break it down , but often contains limestone chippings or a residue , and therefore needs watching for use on the acid-lovers . |
| 22 | I 'm not the sort of person who gets what they want and then starts longing for something else . |
| 23 | That section also covers planning for negotiations , negotiating tactics , and what is negotiable . |
| 24 | The work involves searching for companies to acquire , approaching them , forming a view on price , then negotiating on behalf of clients and carrying out due diligence work . |
| 25 | Brian Atkinson goes hunting for goals at Peterborough today in a bid to cash in on his new role at Sunderland . |
| 26 | I 'VE DONE IT , MUM JUBILANT Sally celebrates her sensational gold medal win in the Montjuic stadium — and then goes looking for her mum and dad in the crowd for a victory hug . |
| 27 | Watch him wobble onto the dance floor as he goes looking for a decent record collection ( ie no Alice Cooper or Frank Zappa ) in CodeMasters ' happenin' hit … |
| 28 | ‘ Knox goes looking for a fight , but Steve likes it that way . |
| 29 | And if she 's called round she goes looking for a cardigan or something on . |
| 30 | Film-making involves acting for 10 minutes and then waiting around for two hours . |