Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's it ; except Nina stopped looking for any knight a long time ago . ’ |
| 2 | Following his daughter 's death , Hugo ceased writing for several years . |
| 3 | Geneva was still technically under the Holy Roman Empire where the Justinian code allowed burning for those who denied either infant baptism or the divinity of Christ . |
| 4 | I started paying for this myself two years ago — and I want to keep it a secret from him — but now I find I ca n't continue the payments . |
| 5 | His osteopath had premises near Regent 's Park and all the way Berg kept apologizing for all the trouble he was causing and Rain kept assuring him it was none at all . |
| 6 | They went looking for former hotel porter Joao Gomes , 40 , after his wife Maria , 39 , was stabbed to death on Tuesday at her flat on the Elysee Estate in St Helier . |
| 7 | Mike , however , had travelled north , leaving his pregnant girlfriend with relatives in the safety of a Harare suburb as he went looking for another war . |
| 8 | The subsidiary company did better than the Virginia Company , kept going for another sixty years , and in the 1640s provided most of the settlers who moved on to the Bahamas . |
| 9 | When the big wigs arrived , however , they were barely acknowledged by a dour receptionist , told to sit in a grubby waiting area strewn with cigarette ends and empty coffee cups , and kept waiting for half an hour without either apology or explanation . |
| 10 | Mum and Mary kept calling for this , no that , yes that , to be brought upstairs . |
| 11 | Niki went fishing for another drive , and thought he had one at Renault ; but the big-manufacturer politics of that season and Gerard Larrousse 's increasing weakness therein , sabotaged that : Niki was kept dangling , offered the drive and then dropped . |
| 12 | The disc went missing for many years , and was the subject of at least one book . |
| 13 | When Kylie went shopping for more additions to her by now Imelda Marcos scale wardrobe in one of London 's stores , the result was inevitable . |
| 14 | The course , designed and built to competition standard , proved testing for most . |
| 15 | A week after the had asking for more , Oliver remained greater prisoner in the darken solitary room which he had been consigned by the wisdom and mercy of the board , but it appears that at first sight not unreasonable disclose that for a particular gentleman of white waistcoat . |
| 16 | He had his back to her and he stood waiting for another outburst , but when neither answer nor movement came to him he turned his head slowly and looked at her over his shoulder . |
| 17 | He stood staring for another minute , then turned and , shutting the door silently behind him , went back to the cold bed . |
| 18 | At their first meeting with students likely to be taking their class , most teachers explain how the class will work ( e.g. structure and content of syllabus , sequence of topics , suggested reading for each topic , times and place of meetings , etc . ) . |
| 19 | We sat shaking for some minutes before regaining sufficient composure to drive on . |
| 20 | It remained floating for some minutes , with lights burning at the upper windows and people shouting for help , and then finally sank . |
| 21 | A few minutes later they had acknowledged Mr Bryant and his daughter outside their house , and then trudged home and stood chatting for some time on the doorstep . |