Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [v-ing] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon after my release from the old jail I 'd gone looking for the creche in which the Organisation for Working Danuese Women had made its home . |
| 2 | I did n't know how long I 'd wasted looking for the compass or how long I 'd knelt in capitulation . |
| 3 | Well , it was all to the good ; after he 'd finished skiing for the day they 'd return to the cottage , and she 'd set out for home . |
| 4 | They had a whirlwind romance , and after a few months she 'd started hinting for a ring . |
| 5 | Sarah 's arms and legs were getting thinner every day , and the rag mat she 'd started making for the hearth became too heavy to have on her lap . |
| 6 | But generally I saw more living conditions later on , er when er I started rent collecting for the council . |
| 7 | The nearest he had ever approached to any hint of levity was when he had stopped frowning for an instant the day that news had reached him of the death of Prince Charles Edward Stuart in Rome . |
| 8 | The father went on : ‘ I believe she said he had stopped breathing for a couple of seconds , and if we had n't had him at the hospital when it happened we would have more than likely lost him . ’ |
| 9 | The ferry service was making a loss and had stopped running for the winter . |
| 10 | Well a way back in the last century they they had to go looking for a life a living elsewhere because of the poverty of the place . |
| 11 | Thanking everyone , Mr. Offer said he had enjoyed working for the parish council , the clubs and with two chairmen of the recreation committee , Wing Commander Archie Derry and Mr. Coyte . |
| 12 | Sampson , like many others , had come looking for a kill before the numbers fell . |
| 13 | This time it was an inspector I who had come looking for the wing commander , his sergeant and his constable . |
| 14 | When he had departed for Benghazi he had left Lord Jellicoe in charge at Kabrit , and on 20 May Jellicoe wrote to MEHQ asking for an order to be issued to the Commando to release the men . |
| 15 | But if she had to start looking for the owner of the Bentley who , she guessed , was probably somewhere in the hotel , she did n't have a hope of making it in time . |
| 16 | Young Americans followed us and came to sit at our table after we had finished singing for the night . |
| 17 | Two years later he had started writing for the Criterion , since he wished to fashion for himself a career as a man of letters . |
| 18 | After paying for her younger sister 's lavish wedding last autumn he had begun saving for the world cruise he had promised her mother for their thirtieth wedding anniversary . |