Example sentences of "[verb] around [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any decent sized salmon would be bound to show itself as it moved around waiting for the next tide to free it . |
| 2 | Keep condoms handy , so you do n't have to go tearing around looking for them at that crucial moment . |
| 3 | Researchers who were interested in people 's views on blood sports could either hang around waiting for respondents spontaneously to bring the subject up , or they could ask directed questions about this on a structured questionnaire , taking care to ask everybody exactly the same question . |
| 4 | I 'll never get married again , so do n't hang around waiting for it , and do n't expect to have me at your beck and call , because that is n't how I am . |
| 5 | They turned round and said I was wasting the officers ' time , looking around searching for me , but I could n't go anywhere with all the doors locked . |
| 6 | Even then we would play it a bit too close and find that some unforeseen emergency would send us scrambling around looking for something we could sell to avoid starvation . |
| 7 | I was wandering around looking for her and the plane exploded behind me . |
| 8 | Well , I was wandering around looking for a rococo palace … ’ |
| 9 | If you just stand around waiting for the enemy to come to you then of course your ladz will get bored , and naturally they 'll start to get a bit fractious , then inevitably they 'll end up failing an Animosity test probably just when you do n't want them to . |
| 10 | Because we fix up dummy alternative quarters , see , an ’ call that Platoon HQ We keep it manned — I 'll see to that — an' if they come nosin' around lookin' for you , you 're out on patrol of course , see . |
| 11 | She smiled a faint smile for the people who hung around waiting for more drama . |
| 12 | He flew around hoping for a break in the visibility . |
| 13 | Now began the real fight for the story , the exclusive , the Kiss ‘ n ’ Tell , which was mostly played out long-range from London , where the editors snarled and the home-side pack were still running around looking for defence ministers or Gorbachev or Cabinet luminaries . |
| 14 | I sometimes think that if we were back in biblical days and John the Baptist was running around looking for a wilderness he would n't go to the desert he would come to Creggan ! |
| 15 | After all this floundering around searching for comparisons , one is confronted by the final track , Mother Love , with its chiming guitars and haunted , wailing female vocal . |
| 16 | All this extra work could have been tackled by youngsters but , unfortunately , the Scottish schools were back and there were no children hanging around looking for something to do . |
| 17 | ‘ There is nothing worse than players hanging around waiting for the next instruction . |
| 18 | But men who 'd probably been men since the age of 14 , when they decided that school was a wank and that , rather than hanging around waiting for a dead-end job , they 'd go out and find their own way to make a living . |
| 19 | She imagined Georg happy and married to some nice girl , while she went on in this gulf of misery for the rest of her life , hanging around waiting for glimpses of Gesner , spending every night reliving every moment they had been together , all the wonderful things he had said to her , the magic of his hands when he touched her — she shivered . |
| 20 | But I do n't want to go around looking for candidates like we did last time . |
| 21 | They sit around waiting for Daryl . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't go around looking for a job , ’ he said , ‘ though I 'm flattered by the speculation . |
| 23 | Especially for me , having to hang around waiting for Uncle Albert to think me back into existence . ’ |
| 24 | This particular cache uses very fast static RAM to cache memory , so the processor does n't have to hang around waiting for ‘ slow ’ memory to deliver data to the processor . |
| 25 | They used to have to be brave , now they just have to hang around waiting for someone to press a button . |
| 26 | We ca n't stand around waiting for the fingerprints man , he could be hours . ’ |
| 27 | The weather ca n't be controlled and I hate sitting around waiting for it to clear up because I ca n't sit still for too long ! |
| 28 | There were dozens of people sitting around waiting for other people . |
| 29 | Just sitting around waiting for me to finish playing is no life for a boyfriend . ’ |
| 30 | Look at the source : Of course , BP and the rest of the plastics industry have n't been sitting around waiting for the environmental debate on waste to start . |