Example sentences of "[v-ing] for any [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The firm will need to decide whether partners ' drawings should be paid gross without allowing for any tax reserve , or , alternatively , whether to withhold tax which is not a partnership liability , but an individual partner 's liability . |
| 2 | Vacations had proved such a strain that she stopped going home at all in the end , applying for any holiday jobs which offered accommodation . |
| 3 | She dragged on her cigarette , listening for any movement from her husband behind her , and jumped as he walked round to stare out of a window . |
| 4 | He held his breath , listening for any sound to indicate that the Bogeyman was standing in the gloom , waiting to pounce . |
| 5 | He got to his feet and walked on tip-toe to the kitchen door , where he pressed his face close to the crack , listening for any sound that might tell him what to expect . |
| 6 | Listening for any sound of activity from the crew , the Doctor threaded his way through the drums , eyeing the occasional label with a scowl of revulsion . |
| 7 | She hung for a moment , listening for any hint of life . |
| 8 | That 's it ; except Nina stopped looking for any knight a long time ago . ’ |
| 9 | It was barely four o'clock when he entered the hut of the Ngo brothers and he waddled threateningly down the canter of the earth floor towards them , shining his flashlight right and left , looking for any excuse to employ his cane . |
| 10 | I felt they were looking for any excuse to start a fight . |
| 11 | I was still left looking for any element that could be described as cavalier . |
| 12 | He took care to appear blithely unworried as he strolled with his staff , for he knew only too well how the French sympathizers in the city were looking for any sign of allied defeatism that they could turn into an argument to demoralize the Dutch-Belgian troops . |
| 13 | She had been watching him intently , looking for any sign that he was sceptical about this mission . |
| 14 | Corbett stayed in the castle the rest of the day , wandering about , looking for any place he could sit and quietly meditate on all he knew . |
| 15 | We 're looking for any trace of clothing , it 's a big area with a long wall and the mounted police can cover it much more quickly than officers on foot |
| 16 | I was actively looking for any hint of SCUM support for about 6 weeks after the campaign … not ONE solitary supporter could be found . |
| 17 | But we 're still perplexed as to how the accident could have happened and we 're still looking for any motive for murder or suicide . ’ |
| 18 | Therefore , we 're not , other than the specific items that appear on your additions list , we 're not looking for any growth in the base budget at this stage , over and above that that 's already built into your budget base . |
| 19 | Dr Alun Gee , NRA technical manager for the Welsh region , said , ‘ We are not looking for any relaxation in current standards ’ and the objectives will contain a ‘ no deterioration ’ clause . |
| 20 | There is no point in looking for any improvement in the journal while he was second in command — there was none . |
| 21 | I am interested in working for the Forestry Commission , for a national park or getting a job which involves caring for any aspect of the environment . |
| 22 | I tell you , I 'm not giving you a penny more for clothes , I 'm not paying for any driving lessons when you 're seventeen , I 'm not shelling out for another disco , I 'm not giving you another lift to a party that everyone else in your year 's going to and you 'd be a freak if you missed it . |
| 23 | Hope he 's not going for any drinking . |
| 24 | It is almost impossible to keep such a tight regime going for any length of time . |
| 25 | They carefully scanned the area , unmoving , and waiting for any sign of life . |
| 26 | The latter sounded his horn impatiently , and without waiting for any sign nosed his car into the middle lane , accelerating as he did so . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm not waiting for any session to finish . |
| 28 | They should ask two academic referees to recommend them to the Principal without waiting for any request from her . |
| 29 | And , without waiting for any reply , he urged Philomel down Cheapside , leaving the fuming coroner behind . |
| 30 | ‘ Before any enactment existed with regard to actions by solicitors for their costs , a solicitor stood in the same position as any other person who has done work for another at his request , and could sue as soon as the work which he was retained to do was finished , without having delivered any signed bill of costs or waiting for any time after the delivery of such a bill . |