Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] out for " in BNC.
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| 1 | You children were excited on the journey to Gibraltar and kept running from side to side of the boat looking out for the small destroyers that were guarding the convoy . |
| 2 | They are a work force crying out for engagement and reward , a force moreover that from its roots understands the value of technical skills , and of education allied to technology . |
| 3 | The reason for the overall cut-off point of ten years is to prevent the threat of legal action stretching out for an unlimited period . |
| 4 | Spent the afternoon watching youngest son 's team holding out for a draw while rushing to and from the car to get the latest score from Lord 's . |
| 5 | Had her feelings and longings as she had lain in the grass , remembering Dick and their lovemaking , her body crying out for a repetition of the act , forged a false link in her mind ? |
| 6 | Then you 'd see old Pat McEwen 's wife looking out for you . |
| 7 | The refugees have spent six days on the Austrian border holding out for British permits . |
| 8 | But this week I went along to ‘ the other Headingley ’ where he plies his trade week-in , week-out to talk to him about his hopes and ambitions and how he saw the season panning out for his big-spending club . |
| 9 | She started going through her bag , making sure she had everything , like a woman going out for an ordinary evening . |
| 10 | You had to be careful walking home , not walk like a zombie , sticking your arms out with your fingers like a baby stretching out for a dropped dummy . |
| 11 | I am much , much more concerned about her voice lasting out for the evening . |
| 12 | It was of a man reaching out for the moon , crying ‘ I want , I want . ’ |
| 13 | Below : A conference of the Women 's Liberal Federation setting out for a tour of Blackpool and St. Annes in May 1926 , using six toastrack trams , here drawn up on both tracks at North Pier . |
| 14 | ‘ Darling , ’ Jilly Jonathan said , her voice ringing out for all to hear , ‘ do n't fug away down there . |
| 15 | The hand reaching out for the bell had fallen slackly over the edge of the bed . |
| 16 | Ward was on his feet in a flash , his gloved right hand reaching out for the other 's arm . |
| 17 | ‘ My mother ’ , Ivy said , ‘ told me that when I was a child , she spent all the year looking out for small things to put in my stocking . |
| 18 | I felt like a knight-errant riding out for adventure . |
| 19 | Later we drifted and found : a beach , 20ft of yellow shingle under a dozen palm trees ; a grotto more lurid than Lourdes , every glittering bowl crying out for a plaster Madonna ; a lagoon in an island 's heart reached through a rock tunnel . |
| 20 | Of course , Preston did not spend all his time looking out for the holes . |
| 21 | He had known the poor child was not robust : this was the basis on which he had been invited to treat , through an English lady , an Oxford acquaintance , then at Nice , who happened to know both his needs and those of the amiable American family looking out for something really superior in the way of a resident tutor ( 11 ) . |
| 22 | Family heading out for memorial service in Kuwait |
| 23 | John Piggott atoned for these scenes with a cool chip around the trunk of a mighty tree behind the 16th , his son holing out for a match-winning four when a six had threatened to open the door to the Betts . |