Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [pers pn] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One time , somebody went looking for him all over the place . |
| 2 | We 've been looking for you everywhere for the past hour ! |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been looking for you all over the house . ’ |
| 4 | Unlike reference , substitution , and ellipsis , the use of conjunction does not instruct the reader to supply missing information either by looking for it elsewhere in the text or by filling structural slots . |
| 5 | She was already getting fed up with the hospital , and could n't wait to take her twin boys back to the large nursery waiting for them upstairs in the medieval castle that was now the family home . |
| 6 | That holiday morning I found Miss Louise waiting for me just inside the door with a pair of old shoes and a pair of slippers in her hands . |
| 7 | Waiting for me down on the sands — a great hulking shape , crouching there , darker than darkness . |
| 8 | I kicked the slippers that were there waiting for me out of the way and then we saw her standing with her back to the fire . |
| 9 | There had always been a trap waiting for him somewhere along the way when Isambard loosed the reins a little , and it would be the same now . |
| 10 | Ranulf the rat-catcher was waiting for him just outside the door , a sleek , well-fed Bonaventure in his hands . |
| 11 | Marie had been waiting for him out in the car-park . |
| 12 | Membership benefits include some that arrive through the post , and others that are waiting for you just around the corner … |
| 13 | Unless there 's a party of soldiers waiting for us somewhere along the route . |
| 14 | and is Omar Hassan now riding for them too in the US ? |
| 15 | He 's waitin' for them now at the railway station . |
| 16 | ‘ We hope Mr Stein will be working for us long into the future and obviously in that case we would need to apply for another permit for him . |