Example sentences of "[to-vb] [v-ing] [adv] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Dyson half expected him to come jerking back for a reprise of the First Collect .
2 finished from and then had to start looking again for a job .
3 Obviously if you are flying over a bad area , with very few good sized fields , it is necessary to divert towards the best area within range and to start looking seriously for a field at several thousand feet .
4 I 'll bring my things in and just have to , to keep wandering about for a minute
5 She yawned , elaborately , and said , " Too much effort to go chasing out for a bath .
6 I 'd like to stay lying down for a bit to make my headache go away , but I made a puddle on the pavement and I got to move .
7 Fierce criticism of the mathematical model ( the Rasch model ) on which the testing programme was founded 1979 ) encouraged the DES to begin looking elsewhere for a thermometer to take the temperature of the education system ; the benchmarks mentioned earlier may be the new thermometer ( Chapter 4 considers these criticisms of the APU ) .
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