Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [adv] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now Blackburn moving forward looking for has gone , four minutes late |
| 2 | Graham sitting there waiting for me to kick him in the teeth . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | There were dozens of people sitting around waiting for other people . |
| 6 | ‘ There is nothing worse than players hanging around waiting for the next instruction . |
| 7 | Sometimes this is achieved by a dominant project leader who imposes his own philosophy and then makes many of the decisions leaving only detailing for team members . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I only told you about her staying away a lot and men turning up looking for her and things like that . |
| 10 | Our porn challenges the received myths about our love-making , as Gillian Rodgerson pointed out when she argued that lesbians need to produce their own because ‘ then the myth that all lesbian sex is two women lounging around waiting for a man to join them , might finally be exploded . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ And I did n't ring Em because it 's hard enough to get a job in any place as a married woman without having hysterical daughters ringing up crying for Mamma . |