Example sentences of "[verb] around [v-ing] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Researchers who were interested in people 's views on blood sports could either hang around waiting for respondents spontaneously to bring the subject up , or they could ask directed questions about this on a structured questionnaire , taking care to ask everybody exactly the same question . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She imagined Georg happy and married to some nice girl , while she went on in this gulf of misery for the rest of her life , hanging around waiting for glimpses of Gesner , spending every night reliving every moment they had been together , all the wonderful things he had said to her , the magic of his hands when he touched her — she shivered . |
| 5 | But I do n't want to go around looking for candidates like we did last time . |
| 6 | They sit around waiting for Daryl . |
| 7 | Especially for me , having to hang around waiting for Uncle Albert to think me back into existence . ’ |
| 8 | If you 're lucky enough to see one at all it will slither off to find a more peaceful rock to sleep under , and since as yet they have n't organised themselves into packs , roaming around looking for people to bite , we can safely say that there 's nothing you will encounter that threatens humans in any way . |
| 9 | Mr Graham said gipsies tended to travel around looking for work , while the travellers ‘ appear to consider work as a low priority , if indeed any consideration is given at all to working . ’ |