Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last night , the town hall 's planning department confirmed the letter has been received merely asking for advice . |
| 2 | Aye there some as come up travelling for seeds and for manure . |
| 3 | Mr Gitsham said a survey of bereaved families was being carried out asking for their views on various issues including how best to provide a permanent memorials . |
| 4 | Living proof of this point are tonight 's audience , who have come here hoping for some of the screaming industrial hardcore MBM used to play , but nevertheless 90 per cent of them would do their unintentionally amusing Maori rugby player dance to a series of sampled farts if they thought they should . |
| 5 | In fact , he had hung on waiting for her to go , avoiding her . |
| 6 | TULFARRIS : Consistent last season but this term has saved best running for the all weather tracks . |
| 7 | O'Shaughnessy tried to chip Perks from 25 yards but failed admirably , Mardenborough twice shot wide looking for his hat trick , Gaughan twice broke through on his own but was denied by the keeper , and Ellison hit the post from an acute angle in the last minute . |
| 8 | A keen cricketer , until last year Mr. Collar could be seen regularly umpiring for Medstead . |
| 9 | He had written twice asking for a meeting , and he had received no reply . |
| 10 | He makes the reasonable point that the upholders of traditional positions might achieve a new plausibility if they could be seen actually arguing for them , rather than merely asserting them . |
| 11 | Soon , for instance , he is seen cheekily jostling for prominence among refugees arriving at Southampton . |
| 12 | order was heard still waiting for her word |
| 13 | The West had shown little liking for this . |
| 14 | Drawn up waiting for them were their friends : the men landed early that morning by their companion ships at the mouth of the Leven . |
| 15 | Daniel who owns the mill ah , the young man you 've got there working for you he said , you 're wrong it 's a girl ! |
| 16 | Except for one year when she lost a pound ; I think she 's only recently given up searching for it . |
| 17 | The prevailing mood is disgust ; at the pathetic inarticulacy of the great ape on a rugby field , Frank Machin , and the blocked emotions of his landlady and lover , who has given up hoping for anything since her husband 's death . |
| 18 | I have therefore given up looking for someone . ’ |
| 19 | They found that for married men who were household heads under age 45 , the proportions ‘ out of work ’ ( a wider concept than we used which included those who had given up looking for work because they did n't think any was available ) was about nine times as high in the local authority as in the occupied sector . |
| 20 | The workforce has fallen by 700,000 as people have retired or given up looking for jobs , but unemployment has risen by roughly 1.3 million , the EPI reports . |
| 21 | I sent back a tirade of bitter invective , written during a long , lonely evening when Richard was dining in college : did she think that because I had given up working for my degree I was necessarily isolated from intelligent thought ? |
| 22 | Timed out waiting for DC … to be agreed |
| 23 | Timed out waiting for LIFESPAN mail message … check manually |
| 24 | Former Home Affairs Minister Lee Sahng Yeon replaced Suh Dong Kwon as Director of the Agency for National Security Planning , after several Agency members had been found illegally campaigning for the opposition during the election . |
| 25 | ‘ He 's now made a brave decision in many respects , because he 's been brought up playing for one club in one way . |
| 26 | If you were last the food would be cold , because it all used to be laid out waiting for you to collect . |
| 27 | But her mother , who was hostile to facts , had gone on entertaining for her as if she were a chaste child just emerging from school . |
| 28 | Inside FI , it was known that Emerson could have gone on driving for a major team and many thought it a pity that he had not stuck to doing what he knew best . |
| 29 | But no , The Day Leeds Won The Title they were n't there , apart from one fat bloke called Jimmy who 'd gone out hoping for a quiet drink … |
| 30 | He had gone out looking for these mule packers who had wandered off the trail , hunting them all day and finding them , three mozos and eighteen mules , an hour before dark and a moment before the sudden gunfire came out of the canyon walls and caught them and ended four of the mules . |