Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking sub-system 1.7 for example , the lower order systems needed to provide full board catering for residents , and occasional meals for day-clients were considered , and the second-level model shown in Fig 11.7 was constructed . |
| 2 | For a few minutes we watched a tree-creeper working his way up the trunk of a tree looking for grubs until Bill the dog , crashing through the undergrowth sniffing for smells , frightened him off . |
| 3 | The man with the sting made his living trawling for prawns , and fishing for mero , which he sold to the holiday village cafés , for a better price than he got from the locals . |
| 4 | Not only are primary schools in the neighbourhood competing for children but prep schools may also be attracting pupils out of the area too . |
| 5 | BY THE time they got to Woodstock they might have been half a million strong , but give them a few days in the mud and they 'd soon wandered off into an acid daze looking for luxuries like a toilet , somewhere to sleep and a decent tofu burger . |
| 6 | His first act needs to be to get the corporate search people straight back into action looking for outsiders to run the AS/400 business — someone from Hewlett-Packard perhaps , the disk business , the chip business , the software and services business . |
| 7 | The ghost associated with it remains a permanent threat to the living , as it wanders the earth with a stretched neck looking for companions . |
| 8 | It would be like finding yourself in the kitchen with Barbara Coleman when you would rather be with Oliver and James Cobalt searching for drugs . |
| 9 | Conference 2 : Case Study Writing for Lecturers |
| 10 | Bottle-necks were not restricted to the railways ; at the end of March twentyfive ships lay in Reval harbour waiting for berths . |
| 11 | He established collotype printing for illustrations and created the nucleus of a bindery . |
| 12 | He had another go at persuasion and wrote Adam long letters to his college begging for compromises . |
| 13 | from the Personnel department asking for details of what I was offering because the medical reports had now gone to the medical officer . |
| 14 | so as much i hate it ( i would have loved to see a norwegian playing for leeds — i guess the dream will have to wait ) Frank is for sure going . |
| 15 | In response to a question Sheila described the South London women 's group who had produced the pamphlet arguing for wages for housework . |
| 16 | Also , you should never waste time and money searching for files or papers . |
| 17 | Seaya 's impenetrable , breathy French accent saves our blushes by rendering inaudible some of the worst sub-Nietzschian toss passing for lyrics you 'll encounter this side of a Slayer LP , but she could sing a Happy Mondays lyric like commands from heaven . |
| 18 | Buyer looking for suppliers |
| 19 | You spent half and hour looking for lemons and salt . ’ |
| 20 | Outgoing president Paul Scherer suggests that potential candidates may be exaggerating the pressures on the president : there are in fact no more than six Council meetings a year , and an additional monthly afternoon meeting for officers . |
| 21 | In a speech in Brussels in November 1991 , Sir Geoffrey laid out his stall as a British retailer looking for partners in Europe . |
| 22 | The place looks like it was ransacked by an LAPD squadron looking for drugs or a thrash metal band who found them . |
| 23 | Basketball : Lee case unsettling for Rams |
| 24 | Fire-fighters have have spent the day sifting through the debris looking for clues . |
| 25 | Fire-fighters have have spent the day sifting through the debris looking for clues . |
| 26 | Mr. Ashworth and Mr. McGregor point also to the extravagant lengths , as they would put it , to which some of the United States decisions have gone and to the dangers of conflict between the mother and her child , with the child suing for damages for injuries allegedly caused by the negligence of the mother before the child 's birth . |
| 27 | He was perched precariously on the very edge of the precipice waiting for puffins to fly past , and when one came within reach he swung his long-handled fleygastong ( which is like a landing-net on the end of a four-metre pole ) to intercept the bird . |
| 28 | Attempts to make clinicians more accountable for the resources they used , another theme of the Griffiths report , led to pilot projects on management budgeting for clinicians , broadening out to a second phase of pilots in Resource Management in six hospital and six community sites in 1987 . |
| 29 | It 's About The Vacancy So , you saw our ad asking for henchmen to various Bond villains , eh ? |
| 30 | They flew low over it and dropped a can asking for directions to Koepang . |