Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] for the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the purposive approach to construction now adopted by the courts in order to give effect to the true intentions of the legislature , the fine distinctions between looking for the mischief and looking for the intention in using words to provide the remedy are technical and inappropriate . |
| 2 | Chesarynth leant back against the wall , holding her throbbing hand and waiting for the knives in her head to dissolve . |
| 3 | It was also first time she had been back to Earth since being drafted into Spacefleet , escaping , and running for the stars in a clapped-out old trading ship owned by a clapped-out old trader . |
| 4 | He can not write for the papers or take part in television programmes and his sole opportunities in public are sharing the replies at question time and answering for the government in adjournment and sometimes in wider debates which concern his ministry . |
| 5 | A return to the eternal verities might be in order , but even then you can still end up clean shaven , well trousered and blazered and commentating for the pie in the Sky . |
| 6 | But looking for the truth in nature walks ? |
| 7 | The possibility of a child being born with a handicap is not only an emotional worry but caring for the child in the future will be expensive . |