Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [v-ing] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LOZ was revelling more than most , and after the club closed he dragged sexy woolly hat-wearing NME hack SIMON WILLIAMS around the streets of Islington looking for a pot-bellied old man clutching a bottle of champagne as it was ‘ the only way we 'll get a drink at this time in the morning ’ . |
| 2 | * The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has launched a report in Brussels calling for a radical overhaul of the Common Agricultural Policy . |
| 3 | ‘ I have an excellent job in Durban working for a French barrier fencing company and am also studying for qualification in personnel management . |
| 4 | He joins the Gateshead company after 10 years in Australia working for a similar electric motor company . |
| 5 | As a consequence , petitions flowed in to the National Assembly from all the local councils in France calling for a constitutional revision , but the majority in the Assembly rejected the appeals . |
| 6 | The portrait was painted in a few hours without Modigliani stopping for a single minute . ’ |
| 7 | In the ornate new council chamber , Mayor Murphy was trying to convince the city council that to be a real Edwardian Mayor he ought to wear mayoral robes , as they did in England ; the newly extended hospital was bracing itself for additional accident cases ; and Hank Stych stood in the airport at Calgary waiting for a local plane to take him north to Tollemarche . |