Example sentences of "[v-ing] around for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make better use of your base cabinets by fixing slide-out towel racks to the doors , and by installing swivel storage shelves to do away with all that groping around for things at the back . |
| 2 | If we are at an early stage of the work , still looking around for ideas and still perhaps ‘ hypothesis-seeking ’ , it is likely that we shall want to talk to people to try to get help , stimulation , new viewpoints , and so on . |
| 3 | Halcyon days indeed but now the trio have broken up and McWilliams after another brief spell in England is back searching around for mounts . |
| 4 | At the moment he 's searching around for sponsors . |
| 5 | I know but I 'm still not wandering around for hours I 'm warning you now ! |
| 6 | The search for subjects that would appeal to audiences narrowed the range of films made , and resulted in a sometimes excessive reliance on stories involving naughty boys , magic drinks , plucky dogs pursuing criminals and clothes left lying around for tramps to pick up . |
| 7 | But let's look first at the visible problems , realising the need for fun , not for a fruitless day 's digging or waiting around for ferrets that are none too likely to return to the surface once allowed underground . |
| 8 | ‘ This has been a subject that has been bubbling around for years and with an ageing population , it is an issue that has n't been talked about enough . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ But when I came in they were clearly not ready and they were running around for tyres . |
| 10 | This simply means that instead of bending and scuffling around for saucepans stacked up in a dark base unit , try hanging them from hooks near the sink ( where you are going to fill them with water ) or near the stove . |
| 11 | Among the regulars at our dump are a pack of stray dogs , rooting around for bones and scraps . |
| 12 | They would then find that they were hanging around for hours and the crafty ones would try to find a prop bed to catch up on some sleep . |
| 13 | Actually Father Duryea , our contact , our man , always saw us right away ; but that did n't stop Hamilton hanging around for hours afterwards , in the waiting room . |
| 14 | I needed the money and it sounded O.K. But sitting around for hours at a stretch without a word from anybody I was able to do a lot of thinking . ’ |
| 15 | But it was as I got into my teenaged years I began to get bored with my walk on roles , sitting around for hours waiting to go on with make-up and costumes on was no fun any more , but I was far too young to do anything else but walk on say a few lines and walk off again . |
| 16 | A sedentary existence or a job that keeps you standing around for hours is liable to encourage a poor circulation as well as allowing the buttock and thigh muscles to become weak and flabby , making cellulite much worse . |
| 17 | Casting around for members |
| 18 | Casting around for precedents for the next move forward , he seized on Michelet 's improvisatory style , which he said put him in mind of the rough sketches of a painter . |
| 19 | With the main market for computer games ( pre-adolescent boys ) reaching saturation point , the big companies are casting around for ways to keep those sales figures healthy . |
| 20 | I chose a situation close to a hedgerow and was soon scouting around for logs or pieces of wood to cover the trench and to give some sort of protection against shrapnel . |