Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | lies in the fact that ‘ the offspring behave like wolves and look like dogs … this ‘ camouflage ’ gives them a tremendous competitive advantage because , as ‘ dogs ’ , they can approach garbage dumps in populated areas or herds of sheep without anyone taking special notice , much less reaching for a rifle ’ . |
| 2 | When faced with one ‘ old boy type ’ executive' who on meeting her with a view to beginning an assignment declared that there was no place for women in his business , she announced that as he was obviously only looking for someone just like himself , he could do that better than she could . |
| 3 | At first I spent so long feeling for the ground the engines had run down to idle , and there was a long delay before they wound back up again to produce noticeable acceleration . |
| 4 | Hick 's first innings 64 looked as if it could be the Test breakthrough England have been so patiently waiting for . |
| 5 | They did do it , like you say it was more or less just covering for itself now and then use |
| 6 | Neither are the civic groupings planning to hang around much longer waiting for an inter-party meeting to establish common ground and communal tactics . |
| 7 | Late at night , when he had drunk quantities of red wine to relax , Modi would begin to hum and sing , badly out of tune , Italian and Hebrew melodies , obviously still hankering for his home . |
| 8 | Unlike Mengele , a freelance monster exploiting opportunities only the Nazis could give him , and unlike Teller , so openly fronting for the Pentagon , our anonymous scientist would acknowledge his dreadful error , his responsibility . |
| 9 | Its over 2 legs so even allowing for a ‘ lukic ’ of a game , we should get thru , and maybe if the season has nt got going by then it will give us the start . |
| 10 | Getting older may be ‘ less profoundly wounding for a man ’ , because throughout life being physically attractive counts more in a woman 's life than in a man 's , and for women especially beauty is identified with youthfulness . |
| 11 | If you feel very inhibited by the artificiality of the situation you will give a very inaccurate impression of the sort of person you really are , perhaps even overcompensating for nerves by being too gregarious and obvious and making it clear that you are not good at handling yourself in a social situation . |
| 12 | He said there were three er , down there canvassing for the main parties and er , well quite a lot of people there and of course rich pickings for , providing they can get anybody to stop and talk to them do n't know , they 'd drive around |
| 13 | The uhum , C & A 's has a lot of them , went down there looking for some shoes for Amy . |
| 14 | All sat down there waiting for a for a ship to come in . |
| 15 | So much easier going for Have n't got a hundred and thirty for rent . |
| 16 | Norm then told him to carry on just playing for as long as he could . |
| 17 | Is it possible for some of us and perhaps representative 's of organisations or a group of us and I know I can talk to the board but I 'm not necessarily speaking for anybody else if I natter to you other than myself . |
| 18 | It 's important to him that everyone knows he is the champion , that he is better than anyone else and not necessarily looking for easy pay days . |
| 19 | We 've taken all this into account , erm I 'm not sure all groups have tried to do that , erm but we have tried to please everyone , we do have some particular priorities and we do want to make significant improvements in service where we can and not necessarily looking for cheap publicity by increasing in lots of places as some people are supposed to of done so where one concludes sometime a significant amount of money in but will have a noticeable difference to their essential service . |
| 20 | There was an acceptance here that the WEA was not necessarily educating for political and social action : its task was to create a better-informed citizen democracy , whether or not its students went on to join pressure groups or assume civic office . |
| 21 | This means not only looking for good practice in the present but also looking for indicators for the future . |
| 22 | The APB is not only looking for comments on its proposed redefinition of the role and scope of audit . |
| 23 | We 're not only catering for Harlow people we are catering for people outside which is bringing money into Harlow helping the finance of Harlow and I think we are just progressing with the times . |
| 24 | 2 clubs that were not only fighting for European places , but are good enough to win the league , but we obviously need a few slip ups at Old trafford . |
| 25 | These are not merely reading for children but they form part of a shared British culture . |
| 26 | And Flupper was not merely heading for them , he was in among them ! |
| 27 | Airborne gets a reputation for quick service from the companies they 're interested in because the bikes are cruising round outside just waiting for a call . |
| 28 | Oh no I worked for another one but her name 's not Liz it 's Alison , but I do n't like working for her and that 's why I 've stopped , I said to Sandra I 'm not fucking scrubbing for somebody younger than me . |
| 29 | You 're not just looking for a brother . |
| 30 | ‘ I was not just looking for the most experienced people but there were other attributes I wanted to see , ’ he says . |