Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By identifying cash deficits at the planning stage a firm will be in a good position to arrange financing for the deficit . |
| 2 | Attendance at these affairs , which involves queueing for the sandwiches , queueing for a glimpse of the Queen , queueing for the lavatories , queueing to leave , is potent evidence of the continuing talismanic influence of the monarchy . |
| 3 | Newman had stopped walking for a few moments , his mind racing . |
| 4 | ALAIN Prost captured his sixth consecutive pole position of the Formula One season as he led qualifying for the Monaco Grand Prix today . |
| 5 | I literally stopped seeing for a very long time . |
| 6 | Jessamy stopped drawing for a few moments . |
| 7 | Thurso could not afford the £300 needed for the charter in 1876 when , hard on the heels of the Prince and Princess of Wales ' visit to ‘ The Exhibition ’ , the Town Council proposed applying for the honour . |
| 8 | I must have mentioned how expensive my activities were becoming , because Suzy suggested that I tried applying for a grant . |
| 9 | ‘ Frank Strandli ( 21 ) is leaving Leeds to try qualifing for a place in the WC squad . |
| 10 | Oh listen Margaret do you know looking for the the plinth in the drawer . |
| 11 | Sampson , like many others , had come looking for a kill before the numbers fell . |
| 12 | He had heard reports of a pirate ship in Black Hill Cove and had come looking for the pirates . |
| 13 | This time it was an inspector I who had come looking for the wing commander , his sergeant and his constable . |
| 14 | Kate obtains a copy of Sheila Kitzinger 's The New Good Birth Guide and Gordon Bourne 's Pregnancy and starts looking for a hospital that gets two stars and is nearby . |
| 15 | She had now reached the age when one starts looking for a husband rather more systematically than one does at nineteen or even at twenty-one . |
| 16 | er , the book has been very heavily attacked by contemporary writers even mentioned passing for the . |
| 17 | ‘ The players should not need motivating for a match against Manchester United . |
| 18 | Union officer DEBORAH LEON , 32 , of Guisborough , Cleveland , perished heading for a month 's trekking holiday . |
| 19 | While I will grant you that it beats filing for the Inland Revenue , it is a suitcase existence and no matter how glamorous the location of the meeting we very rarely see beyond the airport , the hotel and the stadium . |
| 20 | I 'm not waiting , bother waiting for the desired |
| 21 | Many is the time I 've taken good fish , working the vane out across the wind by continuous adjustments to the line , holding back on the float etc. when others have sat waiting for the wind to swing around a couple of degrees . |
| 22 | They will also be able to supply you with a list of suitable short-term homes for the elderly in your area , to which your parent might consider going for a few weeks each year in order that you may have a holiday , if there is no other member of the family who could take over your responsibilities in your absence . |
| 23 | This represents a notional calculation of the benefit gained by living in one 's own house or , in other words , the rent which one would consider paying for the use of the house . |
| 24 | Forget junk food : soon we 'll be forced to clear the rest of the rainforest , just to provide grazing for the cattle needed to clothe the queue outside London 's posey Friday-nighter Glam . |
| 25 | You should n't even consider buying for the new season until you 've consulted our survey , compiled by Steven Seaton . |
| 26 | Even more amazing , Elsie , who had been getting in touch with her previously repudiated strengths , stopped complaining for the day . |
| 27 | It is a lively body of law capable of adaption and expansion to meet fresh needs calling for the exertion of the discipline of law . ’ |
| 28 | Shlomo Green stopped speaking for a moment . |
| 29 | He stopped speaking for a moment , like a man walking who comes to a brink ; perhaps it was an artful pause , but it made the stars , the night , seem to wait , as if story , narration , history , lay imbricated in the nature of things ; and the cosmos was for the story , not the story for the cosmos . |
| 30 | They stopped speaking for a while , then Gerry offered to take the helm . |