Example sentences of "[pers pn] [v-ing] for a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nor was I hinting for a guided tour . |
| 2 | Why am I looking for a new job ? |
| 3 | And squeamishness prevented me looking for a tiny insect to place on a sticky dewdrop leaf . |
| 4 | This arrangement keeps them going for a little while . |
| 5 | Anyway I went to see Foxy at lunchtime and erm and he said that erm er and I mentioned it to him and I said you know do n't go up to Sal and say Jess is feeling like erm you know , feeling that he 's , feeling really jealous because er if , if Sal is trying to get back that will just like please him , you know , if he is trying , if that 's the whole aim of the whole , you know , the operation then , then he 'll just feel pleased and it will also embarrass Jessica and she does n't want and if , and if it 's not , if it was nothing , you know , she 'll feel embarrassed so please do n't say anything and he said no no I 'll just make some subtle , subtle comment and he went up to , he told me that he went up to Sal and he goes erm and he says how 's everything going with Jessica and Sal goes yeah it 's good and , and he go erm cos er Phil erm cos Foxy goes oh cos it 's , it 's going really well with me and Catriona , it 's going really well I 'm really enjoying it , what about you , you know , and Sal goes yeah , it 's really good and Foxy goes erm you know is it , is it a long term thing then , you looking for a long term thing do you think and Sal goes yeah , what about you and Foxy goes yeah yeah definitely yeah , you know , cos he was doing it subtly so I came back and I said to Jess you know really , an and Foxy said there was nothing strange about , it was no f you know it was definitely to fe s f erm Sal was er you know being truthful , there was not like erm yeah well yeah you know and trying to get off the subject , it was n't it was completely , yeah , it 's brilliant , going really well , really enjoying it and it 's gon na be long term sort of thing . |
| 6 | There we are , that 'll keep you going for a wee while longer James . |
| 7 | Even if the committee agree to a grant , it ca n't be more than a couple of thousand — not enough to keep you going for a few months . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh well , that should keep you going for a little while . ’ |
| 9 | Are we looking for the year two thousand , or are we looking for a hundred years later than that , or what ? — the sort of age we have been describing in this programme ? |
| 10 | Thus , there 's the tip-toeing blues of ‘ Last Swallow ’ which allows Justin 's spruced-up Nick Cave intonation to give a would-be sea shanty a good kicking and suggests the Westies ' imagination is sufficient to keep them running for a good while yet . |
| 11 | Thus , there 's the tip-toeing blues of ‘ Last Swallow ’ which allows Justin 's spruced-up Nick Cave intonation to give a would-be sea shanty a good kicking and suggests the Westies ' imagination is sufficient to keep them running for a good while yet . |
| 12 | Any law against me stopping for a quiet smoke ? ’ |
| 13 | I think the death of David 's father was probably what took him a while to make the decision about leaving Ken , because to lose his father , who he really adored , who had always been a pillar of strength to him , changed his life , and I think David carried a bitterness about him dying for a long time . |
| 14 | That left him deciding for a long time which club to use for his third shot . |
| 15 | That 'll keep her going for a wee while . |
| 16 | Although he made a huge bonfire of his papers and correspondence in 1916 , and kept it going for a few days , Edward preserved all her letters along with his notebooks . |
| 17 | Funded initially by the Probation Board and the Belfast Action Team , the cash-starved scheme now requires a further £140,000 injection to keep it going for a full year . |
| 18 | There were two men apart from the one with the rifle and she heard them quarrelling for a long time in another room . ’ |
| 19 | But that does not stop us yearning for a glamorous tan . |