Example sentences of "[vb pp] [v-ing] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had heard reports of a pirate ship in Black Hill Cove and had come looking for the pirates . |
| 2 | This time it was an inspector I who had come looking for the wing commander , his sergeant and his constable . |
| 3 | Many is the time I 've taken good fish , working the vane out across the wind by continuous adjustments to the line , holding back on the float etc. when others have sat waiting for the wind to swing around a couple of degrees . |
| 4 | Major deals over the past two years have included leasing for the new ethylene cracker ( a type of refinery ) for BP at Grangemouth , at that time thought to be the largest leasing deal in Britain , a £180m long-term facility to North West Water to finance major infrastructure projects , and a £75m deal with Fujitsu Microelectronics to fund investment in semiconductor equipment at its factory at Newton Aycliffe , County Durham . |
| 5 | Morris was concussed playing for the North at the weekend . |
| 6 | The alternatives include Romania , described unequivocally by a friend as ‘ pretty dreadful ’ , and Bulgaria which has well organised skiing for the beginner and early intermediate , plus night life fuelled by plum brandy , very acceptable wine and elaborate gymnastic displays . |
| 7 | Thanking everyone , Mr. Offer said he had enjoyed working for the parish council , the clubs and with two chairmen of the recreation committee , Wing Commander Archie Derry and Mr. Coyte . |
| 8 | Thereafter he received an annual salary of twenty pounds a year each year down to 1262 and can be traced acting for the king in litigation until 1267 . |
| 9 | We 've made applying for the Income & Growth PEP as easy as possible , because the sooner you invest the sooner you will start to benefit from a professionally managed investment portfolio and your tax-free returns . |
| 10 | One year a thunderstorm washed out a lot of buttercup petals , so at 8am one Sunday morning , ladies were to be seen heading for the well to make running repairs before the blessing of the well took place in the afternoon . |
| 11 | For a second she felt as he must have felt waiting for the glowing metal to eat into the skin . |
| 12 | Recruitment took place in Bengal as well as in South India , and the remarkably comprehensive Murray 's Handbook pointed out to European travellers the stations where the migrants might be seen entraining for the tea plantations . |
| 13 | On June 22 , 1989 , a new law was ratified providing for the public execution of drug traffickers and dealers as well as of cultivators of plants used for drug production . |
| 14 | Captain Moezzi declared how glad they all were to be back in Teheran and how much he had hated flying for the Shah . |
| 15 | To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what representations he has received calling for the introduction of internment without trial ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 16 | Where sounds of humanity are muffled by the absorbent tranquillity , where vegetative abundance struggles in mysterious thickets and leaf-thatched tunnels , and moss-veiled statues stand transfixed listening for the echoing revelry of a party that ended centuries ago . |
| 17 | The ferry service was making a loss and had stopped running for the winter . |
| 18 | The Polytechnic 's case for retaining teacher education was based on four main arguments : that it was the only public sector institution of higher education in the Principality which provided the full integration of teacher education with the remainder of the higher education system ; that the proposals would leave the largest education authority in Wales employing the largest number of teachers , without involvement in teacher education ; that the Polytechnic had already stopped recruiting for the Certificate of Education course , in line with the DES policy of seeking an all-graduate profession , and in September 1976 had attracted the largest number of teacher-training students with a minimum of two GCE A levels in the Principality ; and that the Polytechnic was being called upon to make a disproportionate sacrifice because it would have to drop its Dip.HE/BEd. programme which was a basic component of a newly developed integrated system of degree courses . |
| 19 | Too much energy can be spent looking for the perfect idea when being pragmatic and settling for a satisfactory solution is best . |
| 20 | The time that would have been spent waiting for the Department of Social Security to answer the telephone might instead have been used to uncover what Sally 's own priorities are . |
| 21 | At the outset , the plaintiff may be slow to contact a solicitor , negotiations for a settlement may drag on , the extent of the plaintiff 's injuries may not become clear until the end of a lengthy period of treatment , investigations may have to be carried out to ascertain the evidence , expert opinions may have to be obtained , communication and action by both sides may be poor and slow , the advice of counsel may be taken , pleadings are often extended , the length of time spent waiting for the trial to begin can be substantial , and errors may be made by the professionals involved . |
| 22 | Many hours were taken up in the dark recesses of the developing room at Oxford 's photography workshop ; even more spent waiting for the precise moment to open the shutter . |
| 23 | I could perhaps put at least part of it in very homely erm and perhaps somewhat banal terms by saying that five minutes spent waiting for the person one loves may seem like five hours , whereas five hours spent with that person may appear a mere five minutes . |
| 24 | His sojourn with the UDC is suggestive of the role played by that organization in maintaining a basis of grass roots campaigning activity at a time when the official Labour Party had abandoned electioneering for the patriotic excesses of all-party recruiting platforms . |
| 25 | The main focus of his activity on the king 's behalf during this period was the court of King 's Bench , but he can also be found speaking for the king in the Common Bench as well . |
| 26 | If Nellie had n't gone looking for the children … |
| 27 | I 've bothered , I 've gone looking for the child inside myself . |
| 28 | Soon after my release from the old jail I 'd gone looking for the creche in which the Organisation for Working Danuese Women had made its home . |
| 29 | No law shall be enacted providing for the grant of a dissolution of marriage . |
| 30 | The company has not yet announced pricing for the service . |