Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [v-ing] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , as he goes on listening for a few weeks , looking carefully at ever-new pictures of different cases , a tentative understanding will dawn on him ; he will gradually forget about the ribs and begin to see the lungs . |
| 2 | ‘ Folly , I do n't want you to go on looking for a place of your own . |
| 3 | It also allows the police and Customs to permit accountants to go on acting for a client after they have disclosed suspicious activity to them . |
| 4 | Now that 's settled can I carry on moping for a few hours more ? ’ |
| 5 | When a pupil came in asking for a special book , he would rush and find it before Mr Crangle . |
| 6 | Well , I was wandering around looking for a rococo palace … ’ |
| 7 | And although scores of people turned up looking for a pet , new waifs were being brought in almost as quickly . |
| 8 | What sort of thing — for instance , one of the problems in some areas might be that the buses erm do n't erm that there is an insufficient bus service late in the evening , so a lot of kids hang about waiting for a bus and get into trouble waiting . |
| 9 | He flew around hoping for a break in the visibility . |
| 10 | 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 ! |
| 11 | But men who 'd probably been men since the age of 14 , when they decided that school was a wank and that , rather than hanging around waiting for a dead-end job , they 'd go out and find their own way to make a living . |
| 12 | A few youngsters may go on sniffing for a while — perhaps regularly with their friends . |
| 13 | Watching the Trooper disappear up the road , I reckon it could go on trooping for a long time yet at the right price , with very little needing doing . |
| 14 | And their arousal is so intense that if the owl finally departs they will still go on mobbing for a long while afterwards , as though they can not calm down to a normal level of activity until some considerable time has passed . |
| 15 | We went on walking for a while , in silence . |
| 16 | You know , you go on looking for a solution to this difficult problem . |
| 17 | So the dream becomes a symbolic expression of this conflict and what very often happens is the there 's a kind of compromise in which you go off and look for the bathroom or the drink of water or whatever it is you want , but the dream keeps postponing you finding it , in order to lengthen the dream and the state of sleep , so you go on sleeping for a bit longer . |
| 18 | Inside FI , it was known that Emerson could have gone on driving for a major team and many thought it a pity that he had not stuck to doing what he knew best . |
| 19 | They took up flying for a hobby and say all you need is courage and a taste for adventure . |
| 20 | If you 've just done a 12-mile ridge-walk then I 'm sure nothing will be further from your thoughts , but if you plan a weekend away with a person you 've fancied for ages and somehow end up heading for a bothy , unless you are totally alone any thought of a fumble in the sleeping-bag should be out of the question . |
| 21 | Probably , you will end up paying for a remix . |
| 22 | ‘ I never thought I 'd end up working for a bossy woman . ’ |
| 23 | But no , The Day Leeds Won The Title they were n't there , apart from one fat bloke called Jimmy who 'd gone out hoping for a quiet drink … |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't go around looking for a job , ’ he said , ‘ though I 'm flattered by the speculation . |
| 25 | Er so so when you left school how did you go about looking for a job ? |
| 26 | They carry on arguing for a bit , then Peter hits the cymbal again . |
| 27 | The other dhāmis carry on dancing for a while and then their gods go too . |
| 28 | ( Norman Mailer gave up smoking for a year and wrote not one word in that time . ) |
| 29 | The fact was that Charles gave up shooting for a few years because he had simply grown bored with it : it was too easy to blast away overfed birds frightened into the air by a band of beaters . |
| 30 | Wander around looking for a boy in half-dead trainers with green Dayglo socks showing through . |