Example sentences of "[adj] [v-ing] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its more philosophical aspects such intellectual work was addressed to providing a theoretical underpinning for a collectivist social outlook which would be immune equally from the mechanical vulgarities of statism and the revolutionary demands of socialism . |
| 2 | I admire Mac because he has remained at the top of British sprinting for a decade through a lot of hard work . |
| 3 | It 's no good looking for a man 's body round here if the owner 's living it up in Costa Rica . |
| 4 | ‘ No good going for a soldier if you ca n't show a little decision of your own . ’ |
| 5 | He had always expected it , and in any case while his ministers were busy looking for a wife for him he had already made his own choice . |
| 6 | In the late Thirties the Baroness Hila Rebay was busy looking for a name for the new art museum her mentor Solomon R. Guggenheim was about to found and of which she was about to become the first director . |
| 7 | My effective leaving date was 15th October , and I am busy looking for a new job ( of which , once again , more if we talk ! ) . |
| 8 | Everyone else had gone to Japan and I was still in New York trying desperately to get a visa for Russia but I could n't get one , so I convince Tony deFries that if I went to Japan and went to the Russian Embassy in Tokyo , they 'd be so confused by an American applying for a visa in Tokyo 's Embassy that i could fake it and get one , and he said I was welcome to try . |
| 9 | If you did n't think you were being blackmailed into bed , were you just looking for a man , any man , to wipe out the memory of Marcus , to prove you 're a normal , beautiful , loving woman — and now you 've proved that , you find you do n't even like the man you chose to be your therapist ? ’ |
| 10 | Since so many of the walks in this area are dominated by the old lead-mine workings it 's probably worthwhile looking for a little here at the history and techniques of lead-mining . |
| 11 | The librarian has been teaching information skills for many and has found that local viewdata is an excellent coordinating for a whole range of useful skills . |