Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [indef pn] [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exactly thirty minutes later , Shannon packed the last two brushes into an already crammed hold-all and glanced quickly round the small room , checking for anything she might have missed first time round . |
| 2 | And a witness told how he had seen looters running through evacuated apartments hunting for anything they could carry away . |
| 3 | Even then we would play it a bit too close and find that some unforeseen emergency would send us scrambling around looking for something we could sell to avoid starvation . |
| 4 | He was thumbing through USA Today for the umpteenth time , looking for something he might have missed , when he heard her giggling . |
| 5 | Thus , though more than 20 per cent of people are in fact likely to use mail order , it is very unlikely that mail order would ever occur to more than 20 per cent of people as a potential source of credit when they were ( say ) standing in front of a shop window looking at something they would like to buy . |
| 6 | If he exaggerated at all , it was in supposing that anything I might say mattered all that much . |
| 7 | ‘ You mean to tell me , ’ Mrs Wilson interrupted , ‘ that you went round every secretarial agency in London asking about someone they might have employed fourteen years before , someone who most likely had changed her name , and you expected to succeed ? ’ |