Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] [v-ing] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may have brought comfort to some but statistically it was as risky as playing Russian roulette , and I laid off smoking for the next seven years . |
| 2 | Now that 's settled can I carry on moping for a few hours more ? ’ |
| 3 | The registration plates said it was only two years old but I stopped believing registration plates about two years before I gave up waiting for the tooth fairy . |
| 4 | After positioning the wad in my cheek I sat around waiting for the hit , feeling smug with my new-found anthropological skills . |
| 5 | ‘ Folly , I do n't want you to go on looking for a place of your own . |
| 6 | Er so so when you left school how did you go about looking for a job ? |
| 7 | You know , you go on looking for a solution to this difficult problem . |
| 8 | So the dream becomes a symbolic expression of this conflict and what very often happens is the there 's a kind of compromise in which you go off and look for the bathroom or the drink of water or whatever it is you want , but the dream keeps postponing you finding it , in order to lengthen the dream and the state of sleep , so you go on sleeping for a bit longer . |
| 9 | We go on praying for the release of hostages and prisoners held without a cause ; and we pray for peace , and especially for the peace of Jerusalem . |
| 10 | We went on walking for a while , in silence . |
| 11 | They took up flying for a hobby and say all you need is courage and a taste for adventure . |
| 12 | They carry on arguing for a bit , then Peter hits the cymbal again . |
| 13 | Then , as he goes on listening for a few weeks , looking carefully at ever-new pictures of different cases , a tentative understanding will dawn on him ; he will gradually forget about the ribs and begin to see the lungs . |
| 14 | Any decent sized salmon would be bound to show itself as it moved around waiting for the next tide to free it . |
| 15 | He flew around hoping for a break in the visibility . |
| 16 | As an engineer , with a craftsperson 's interest in machines , he could not believe that they were the real villains of the piece and he set about looking for the deeper fault underlying their applications . |
| 17 | ‘ And Gabby turned out to be particularly good , which saved him from having to do the usual terrible , crap jobs that the Hawaiians had to do , and he ended up playing for a living in just about every joint in Hawaii — and there were lots of them in those days , because live music was a big thing . |