Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paula picked up her try and moved aside waiting for him , flushed with pleasure at seeing a familiar face . |
| 2 | Any decent sized salmon would be bound to show itself as it moved around waiting for the next tide to free it . |
| 3 | Dilip Vengsarkar came in looking for his fourth hundred in as many Lord 's appearances and immediately joined Shastri in exploiting the unpatrolled third-man boundary . |
| 4 | ‘ Is that right the filth came in looking for your Mickey and the electric went ? |
| 5 | Then , right after he and Mr. Mendez left , a mustered-out soldier from Thomas came in looking for passage to Bisbee . |
| 6 | Sure Ji he came in looking for Jim one morning and Jim was n't there , says he 's in bed so listen I said do you wan na go up and waken him like fuck Jim says when Acky woke me I said what you mean he give you a kiss and he woke you up . |
| 7 | ‘ The story goes , ’ I told him , as we drove up to Llanberis after meeting at Bangor station , ‘ that you were in the Radziel and a woman came in collecting for charity . |
| 8 | When a pupil came in asking for a special book , he would rush and find it before Mr Crangle . |
| 9 | At 4 pm the following afternoon he awoke and came downstairs asking for breakfast ! |
| 10 | It seemed to him that Vincent came home spoiling for a fight . |
| 11 | Santerre has proved to be a most loyal subject of the King but Hopkins served him as a chaplain and Buckingham came here looking for those relics . ’ |
| 12 | She came here looking for somewhere to live . |
| 13 | This may have brought comfort to some but statistically it was as risky as playing Russian roulette , and I laid off smoking for the next seven years . |
| 14 | And although scores of people turned up looking for a pet , new waifs were being brought in almost as quickly . |
| 15 | We had to get on to the barge before these two characters unwittingly alerted the army sentries across the road , or before the Friends of the Tourists turned up looking for us . |
| 16 | Then he turned up playing for Real Madrid . |
| 17 | Ianthe remembered as she walked along looking for number 28 that her dressmaker had lived very near here , but somehow , after she had made one or two mourning dresses for her after her mother had died , Ianthe had lost touch with her . |
| 18 | THE Royal Family spent yesterday preparing for the Christmas festivities much like any other family . |
| 19 | She smiled a faint smile for the people who hung around waiting for more drama . |
| 20 | When I left Nellie I hung about waiting for Dad 's protection but he did n't appear . |
| 21 | Well I got up there started fucking going for it . |
| 22 | Franca said , ‘ Yes , yes , ’ and ran into the other room and started frantically looking for pen and paper . |
| 23 | This afternoon you started out apologising for spying on me , and ended up accusing me of spying on you . ’ |
| 24 | He flew around hoping for a break in the visibility . |
| 25 | I was interested in the waves of immigration into Britain both pre-historically and later , and I kept on looking for proposals which would represent this both in multi-cultural and archaeological terms . |
| 26 | So they kept on going for goals ; did n't get any , but it was n't for the lack of trying ; Southend 0 ; Oxford 3 . |
| 27 | The first lady nodded and went on nodding for several seconds in quiet contemplation before putting two further questions to him concerning European regional incentives , Government grants and subsidies and their cost distorting influence on investment location decisions . |
| 28 | We went on walking for a while , in silence . |
| 29 | She went on begging for forgiveness . |
| 30 | But I went on grubbing for wood . |