Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [v-ing] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stand listening for a moment — crying could ruin everything — but there 's only the rhythmic suck-suck , suck-suck , suck-suck as it breathes and sucks on the medicine . |
| 2 | ‘ I remember thinking for a long time afterwards that it must have been Uncle Titch 's , ’ said William , and Preston stared at him in astonishment , shocked not so much by the thought of Uncle Titch and Mary Moxton in carnal embrace as by this sudden insight into William 's dark imaginings . |
| 3 | I try walking for a bit with my eyes closed proper , but I keep having to open them cos I 'm scared I 'm going to bump into summat . |
| 4 | Needs some help and gets it from Thomson who started this move off and lifted in towards Agnew , Cooper clears it still has n't gone out and er Phillips just prevented it I think going for a corner , yes it 's a throw . |
| 5 | Obviously sixty miles an hours means if you keep going for an hour , you do sixty miles . |
| 6 | The first thing is to remember is that no daggerboard is completely efficient and so if you try aiming for a goal point , you 'll actually end up slightly downwind because the boat would have drifted sideways . |
| 7 | This is all well and good until you go looking for a sound that the Quad will deliver only when the output level is quite a way up — at which point your mixer has long since run out of headroom . |
| 8 | First , make sure you know what you want to do before you go looking for a solution . |
| 9 | Dad said if you go looking for a motor got a magnet at work , take that with you . |
| 10 | It used to be the case that one had to find a property that one wanted to buy first and then apply for a mortgage , but some organisations will now provide a mortgage guarantee document , that is to say an assurance of the amount of money they will lend you , before you start looking for a property . |
| 11 | How do you fancy going for a ride in my car ? ’ he asked Thomas . |
| 12 | You come looking for a fight — and you 're going to get one . |
| 13 | We 've got a lovely telly with a twelve-inch screen and now you come asking for a book ! |
| 14 | We stay kissing for a bit . |
| 15 | That has been the dilemma for Hong Kong — the necessity of staunching the flow — and they deserve understanding for a decision that carries all manner of risks for their own future as 1997 nears . |
| 16 | That has been the dilemma for Hong Kong — the necessity of staunching the flow — and they deserve understanding for a decision that carries all manner of risks for their own future as 1997 nears . |
| 17 | Second , most workers believe that the more time they spend searching for a job , the more likely it is that they will obtain one which meets their requirements , particularly in so far as the wage rate and working conditions are concerned . |