Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [v-ing] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ How can you respect bashing in a bolt and just waiting for a robot to take over your job ? |
2 | I remember driving down to Leith on that Friday night , and just going for a walk and thinking that the next time the sun came up I would be playing at Murrayfield . |
3 | But with half an hour gone the poor quality of United 's final ball had left Cantona stranded and still looking for a chance to put some flesh on Ferguson 's bold predictions . |
4 | A major purveyor of Tory gossip and still looking for a job . |
5 | He tried to live an ordinary life , working as a bus driver , and accounts clerk at Harrods and later studying for a zoology degree , but nothing made him content . |
6 | What , and now going for a head , hit the bar . |
7 | These rosy expectations were not , however , to be fulfilled and even allowing for a degree of misfortune , Carter 's record of achievement as president was slim . |
8 | So deep was the division on the " entrist tactic " that the unified body reached the compromise of working within the Labour Party for a period and then withdrawing for a time and continuing independent activity . |
9 | ''' That was exactly what the average person called on to make self-criticism thought : all that mattered was getting through the ritual humiliation , and then going for a drink . |
10 | The Carlists had been building up the paramilitary Requeté since the early days of the Republic and seriously preparing for a rising since 1934 . |
11 | ‘ What I told you about Saturday night going out to post letters and afterwards going for a walk — was perfectly true . ’ |
12 | Our campaigns include saving the rainforests , securing better protection for Britain 's countryside and recently pressing for a ban on the ivory trade to save the elephant . |
13 | It was a calm , simple interrogative , inviting but not pleading for a continuation . |
14 | ‘ But hardly fitting for a creature in my position . ’ |
15 | It seems ironic that I pose such a threat to the natural order : an innocuous , above-averagely exhausted woman , mainly preoccupied with children 's needs , work , letters from the bank and Sainsbury 's , but sometimes longing for a chat , a good laugh , an exchange of views . |