Example sentences of "you [verb] [v-ing] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What would you prefer asking for a boy or a girl ? |
| 2 | ‘ It 's time you stopped waving for a minute and listened to me . |
| 3 | And that 's our money for the day used up , if you count paying for the room . |
| 4 | So why do n't you try listening for a change ? ’ |
| 5 | Obviously sixty miles an hours means if you keep going for an hour , you do sixty miles . |
| 6 | The first thing is to remember is that no daggerboard is completely efficient and so if you try aiming for a goal point , you 'll actually end up slightly downwind because the boat would have drifted sideways . |
| 7 | First , make sure you know what you want to do before you go looking for a solution . |
| 8 | This is all well and good until you go looking for a sound that the Quad will deliver only when the output level is quite a way up — at which point your mixer has long since run out of headroom . |
| 9 | Dad said if you go looking for a motor got a magnet at work , take that with you . |
| 10 | It used to be the case that one had to find a property that one wanted to buy first and then apply for a mortgage , but some organisations will now provide a mortgage guarantee document , that is to say an assurance of the amount of money they will lend you , before you start looking for a property . |
| 11 | Before you start looking for the file , you know what the file name is . |
| 12 | Well you start going for the paper and seeing how you like walking right under the ! |
| 13 | How do you fancy going for a ride in my car ? ’ he asked Thomas . |
| 14 | You come looking for a fight — and you 're going to get one . |
| 15 | We 've got a lovely telly with a twelve-inch screen and now you come asking for a book ! |