Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] for [art] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sampson , like many others , had come looking for a kill before the numbers fell . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | New boys were excused fagging for a fortnight until they had found their feet . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's time you stopped waving for a minute and listened to me . |
| 5 | The alternatives include Romania , described unequivocally by a friend as ‘ pretty dreadful ’ , and Bulgaria which has well organised skiing for the beginner and early intermediate , plus night life fuelled by plum brandy , very acceptable wine and elaborate gymnastic displays . |
| 6 | And if she 's called round she goes looking for a cardigan or something on . |
| 7 | That has been the dilemma for Hong Kong — the necessity of staunching the flow — and they deserve understanding for a decision that carries all manner of risks for their own future as 1997 nears . |
| 8 | That has been the dilemma for Hong Kong — the necessity of staunching the flow — and they deserve understanding for a decision that carries all manner of risks for their own future as 1997 nears . |
| 9 | We 've made applying for the Income & Growth PEP as easy as possible , because the sooner you invest the sooner you will start to benefit from a professionally managed investment portfolio and your tax-free returns . |
| 10 | It is , as far as he knows , the only way of coming downstairs , but sometimes he feels that there is really another way if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it . ’ |
| 11 | It is , as far as he knows , the only way of coming downstairs , but sometimes he feels that there really is another way , if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it . |
| 12 | What would you prefer asking for a boy or a girl ? |
| 13 | One of the most obvious places to start looking for the existence or not of inequality between different social groups is the amount of income that people earn , since money is so important in our society . |
| 14 | The fact that an individual started searching for a job while in his old job does not significantly increase the chance of obtaining an offer . |
| 15 | Upfront and honest , she is concerned about rights and wrongs and would rather die shouting for a cause than hide behind a corporate banner . |
| 16 | He said , ‘ What 's good for NetWare may not be good for Unix … ( and ) Novell has no compelling reason to keep paying for the fuel that burns in the Unix flame . ’ |
| 17 | The drivers , now cut up and veering to the Left , find voting for the party that has championed the self-employed harder to do . |
| 18 | Continue breathing for the child and giving chest compressions until the ambulance arrives . |
| 19 | After all , Mozart was only five when he started composing for the piano and look what happened to him . |
| 20 | From this you can then judge when you can risk sleeping for an hour or two and so be much fresher for the more likely feeding times . |
| 21 | When I sold CBS the video I kept apologising for the movement because it was so shaky . |
| 22 | They knew that physically Rose could do much more than she was willing to try , so they kept searching for the key that would restore her will to live without being , unnecessarily , a burden on others . |
| 23 | This is all well and good until you go looking for a sound that the Quad will deliver only when the output level is quite a way up — at which point your mixer has long since run out of headroom . |
| 24 | Alex Salmond did n't go looking for a fight but Ian Lang gave him one anyway . |
| 25 | Downstairs , Elsie Hogan , the bloom of youth scoured from her skeleton , lay waiting for the haemorrhage that would end it all . |
| 26 | Keep digging for the truth and when you find it , you 'll smile . |
| 27 | ‘ You know , Hank , if you really want to write for a living you should go to London and Edinburgh , go to Europe , too — perhaps try working for a newspaper or magazine . |
| 28 | Those opposed to the hunt have pledged to continue campaigning for a ban and have accused the central committee of fudging the issue . |
| 29 | I did n't know how long I 'd wasted looking for the compass or how long I 'd knelt in capitulation . |
| 30 | Well you start going for the paper and seeing how you like walking right under the ! |