Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's he 's a quick nimble defender Speedy was just hanging hanging on waiting for the ball to be played into him and I must confess I did n't really see anything afterwards I mean well if you look at that that does n't seem anything untoward does it ? |
| 2 | He tossed his horse 's reins to a groom and went storming off looking for Dacourt . |
| 3 | Bennetts came here on holiday from New Zealand 20 years ago and never returned , ending up working for McLaren boss Ron Dennis until he founded WSR 10 years ago . |
| 4 | Keep condoms handy , so you do n't have to go tearing around looking for them at that crucial moment . |
| 5 | Your dramatic gestures will certainly mesmerize them , but they will be staring apprehensively at the glass , or laughing hysterically waiting for it to fall ! |
| 6 | They turned round and said I was wasting the officers ' time , looking around searching for me , but I could n't go anywhere with all the doors locked . |
| 7 | Even then we would play it a bit too close and find that some unforeseen emergency would send us scrambling around looking for something we could sell to avoid starvation . |
| 8 | I was wandering around looking for her and the plane exploded behind me . |
| 9 | Well , I was wandering around looking for a rococo palace … ’ |
| 10 | Stay with that a minute , erm , erm , I mean I would n't have thought we were in a position to give an assurance that er erm , that that no other complaints which appear to be outside the local ombu ombudsman 's restriction will be dealt with by support staff , I mean I should think we 're continuing looking continually looking for ways of dealing with complaints at the most efficient and effective way , and if that |
| 11 | Now — are you going on looking for more ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I only told you about her staying away a lot and men turning up looking for her and things like that . |
| 13 | In the meantime , Henley had become a successful club recognised everywhere as one of the friendliest — where a chap can be assured of a game at weekends by simply turning up looking for one ; a Club with a pretty , well kept , interesting course ; a 19th hole where there is good refreshment and some comfortable chairs ; an excellent Professional 's shop and a social and golfing calendar second to none and the envy of most . |
| 14 | Red Cross workers in Oxford are preparing beds and fixing up catering for the evacuees who can stay at the centre for anything up to four months . |
| 15 | Mark : I certainly found quite a distinct difference between actually going out looking for sex , which I often associated with going to discos and , on the other hand , just making friendships which happened in a much more natural and less forced way . |
| 16 | You probably remember , erm , a stimulating little book published last year by Frank on the Impulse to Philanthropy , where certainly in his nineteenth century analysis of the growth of philanthropy , he saw to main things , evangelicalism , which er , meant that people were going out looking for converts , and therefore doing good social work on the way , and the growth of the women 's movement , in the sense that women otherwise unemployed were looking for a new area of activity to get into . |
| 17 | with a pair of binoculars , turning round looking for planes coming in |
| 18 | I actually started with eng civil engineer , going round looking for the camp site and then we did tramp the hills . |
| 19 | Nayim now forward to Paul Stewart , sorry to Paul Allen , Allen lays it wide now to Fenwick , Fenwick to Gascoigne , Gascoigne cuts inside , this is where he 's his most dangerous , Gascoigne going forward looking for the one two to Walsh , to Gascoigne , Gascoigne 's on his way through , Gascoigne shoots — tremendous tackle — oh what a goal by Paul Gascoigne . |
| 20 | Because we fix up dummy alternative quarters , see , an ’ call that Platoon HQ We keep it manned — I 'll see to that — an' if they come nosin' around lookin' for you , you 're out on patrol of course , see . |
| 21 | But now Blackburn moving forward looking for has gone , four minutes late |
| 22 | Well I think the only difference is I say to her I hope you 're still cos she said to me you can come , I said I 'm coming straight round yours christmas day , I 'm not coming home waiting for you to come back , you do n't come till half past ten ! |
| 23 | The good news is that giving up smoking for the sake of the unborn baby is all that has to be done to bring an end to these needless deaths and halt the other harm suffered by these most defenceless of nonsmokers . |
| 24 | When he was voted the English League 's Player of the Year in 1973 , the Sunday Telegraph marvelled at his new maturity , and described his transformation as being ‘ like Attila The Hun giving up fighting for sculpture . ’ |
| 25 | What she was doing is she was talking as a person who 's got a genuine love of the theatre as we all have that 's what were doing here looking for solutions now can I 'm I 'm as I said I 'm not assassinating your character now but you 're being very intimidating in the way that your talking to people . . |
| 26 | So what the fucking hell are you doing here apologizing for apologizing for a drug . |
| 27 | Now began the real fight for the story , the exclusive , the Kiss ‘ n ’ Tell , which was mostly played out long-range from London , where the editors snarled and the home-side pack were still running around looking for defence ministers or Gorbachev or Cabinet luminaries . |
| 28 | I sometimes think that if we were back in biblical days and John the Baptist was running around looking for a wilderness he would n't go to the desert he would come to Creggan ! |
| 29 | After all this floundering around searching for comparisons , one is confronted by the final track , Mother Love , with its chiming guitars and haunted , wailing female vocal . |
| 30 | All this extra work could have been tackled by youngsters but , unfortunately , the Scottish schools were back and there were no children hanging around looking for something to do . |