Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | While bears , wolves and the like undoubtedly eat mountain goats , they probably do so through scavenging for carcasses rather than through direct predation . |
| 2 | So much for looking for excitement . |
| 3 | when the receiver 's come in and all that , she 'd never put Linda down as working for her , so she got no redundancy pay ! |
| 4 | ‘ Little talk with Jesus ? ’ he said , and , halfway through reaching for a tube of tomato purée , he closed his eyes and froze solid as if overtaken by a large quantity of molten lava . |
| 5 | I suppose we could have pushed ourselves and got these things , but I think we both knew that erm if we did , we 'd probably have to sell them halfway through paying for them . |
| 6 | He 's only off looking for Rebel . |
| 7 | It was only after phoning for help that Lizzie thought about what happened to her sister . |
| 8 | Mildred had bought a mask which featured hair made from uncarded sheep 's wool , and which had produced moths only after hanging for a year on the landing of her staircase . |
| 9 | Kelly was due to step down after covering for the suspended Tracey against Arsenal last week . |
| 10 | ‘ He is very much in contention for a first-team place , although he may not think so after playing for the juniors . |
| 11 | Retribution was not long in coming for the Partick side who , last Saturday , lost four goals for the second league game in succession . |
| 12 | Because of its long use , especially in writing for academic and administrative purposes , the vocabulary and to some extent the sentence syntax of Standard English have been greatly elaborated . |
| 13 | The CBI , which had been vocal enough in calling for ‘ curbs on unofficial strikes ’ in the late '60s , was alarmed by the massive popular resistance to the Heath government 's stand , and its leader Campbell Adamson suggested that a Tory victory in February ‘ would not solve Britain 's problems ’ . |
| 14 | If we are interested only in smoothing for pictorial representation , this does not matter . |
| 15 | That there should be about 400 woody species in a hectare of South American or Malaysian forest has led to problems not only in accounting for such diversity , the main subject of this chapter , but also in actually measuring the richness of such forests . |
| 16 | The help given in the first period of Addenbrookes , when the plaintiff had her own room and was for much of the time still in a coma , was clearly signifidant , significant , not only in caring for the plaintiff 's physical needs , but in giving the support and encouragement which no doubt contributed greatly to the plaintiff 's emergence from that coma . |
| 17 | We should not just go through the Lobbies — half the time I do so without knowing for what I am voting . |
| 18 | He did so without waiting for his father 's permission . |
| 19 | She always knocked and then walked in without waiting for a response . |
| 20 | He knocked and went in without waiting for an answer . |
| 21 | Then I went in without waiting for an invitation . |
| 22 | Further along the corridor she tapped on her great-grandmother 's door and went in without waiting for permission . |
| 23 | ‘ Shall I cut it ? ’ he said , and sliced eagerly in without waiting for an answer . |
| 24 | It often takes ages for a pair to get down to spawning for the first time and if you were to separate them now it would be extremely difficult to get them back together again . |
| 25 | Examples of such tasks are : an adolescent girl who has been having unprotected sexual intercourse with her boyfriend agrees to go to her local family planning clinic to seek contraceptive advice and to avoid having intercourse until contraception has been arranged ; a student with difficulty getting down to revising for an important examination decides that he must make a list of what he needs to do — his therapist suggests he also arranges the topics in their order of importance . |
| 26 | She 'd been down to Goring for Marius ' funeral , ( having found out the time by ringing Morrison at Orme Gardens ) . |
| 27 | She found her bearings conventionally enough by working for the US information office in Bogota , Colombia , and then in Rio di Janeiro where she acquired a lifelong love for Brazil . |
| 28 | Buyers were urged to boycott firms which refused to join in by looking for products that bore the NIRA badge : a Blue Eagle with the motto , " We Do Our Part " . |
| 29 | Having been trained in Institutional Management I still like to keep my hand in by catering for private functions such as weddings and christenings , and I intersperse this with occasional cookery demonstrations for women 's groups in the area . |
| 30 | Only by qualifying for either the English Tourist Board crown grading and quality scheme , or one of the other nationally recognised quality schemes , can establishments be singles out with the relevant symbol and this is the result of independent , objective assessment by trained inspectors , not as a result of decisions by council staff . |