Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [v-ing] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has you aiming for each number in turn ( 1–20 ) , finishing on the bull . |
| 2 | Another message — ‘ Ease his pain ’ — sends the farmer off to Boston to find a reclusive novelist ( James Earl Jones ) and a third imprecation from the skies — ‘ Go the distance ’ has him looking for another old baseballer ( Burt Lancaster ) who played just once for the New York Giants before becoming a much-loved doctor . |
| 3 | Not content with Mont Blanc , last year found him searching for another challenge . |
| 4 | She could almost see him searching for another string of quips if Jessica would not thaw to the first attempt . |
| 5 | ‘ I can see her going for that , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Right , so it 's twenty gallons per minute times , let's say you 've got it going for ten minutes , ten mins and the per minutes and the minutes cancel out and the answer comes in gallons then . |
| 7 | Eldorado 's death knell has been heralded since the week it started on July 6 , although BBC bosses had said they would keep it going for five years despite the torrent of criticism . |
| 8 | And organisers are hoping that the success of this event will keep it going for another half century . |
| 9 | The keen thespian likens the challenge of reactivating the Pedernales oilfield to mounting a theatrical production — it should impress the audience enough to leave them yearning for more . |
| 10 | Organizations operating in the north of the country spoke of recruiting seasonal workers from amongst people who had contacted them looking for permanent positions . |
| 11 | And someone buying it looking for that kind of book could justifiably feel they were being sold short . |
| 12 | The idea of the bill was to keep them going for two weeks , you know , so they can change their mind and … |
| 13 | Enough to keep them going for three days . |
| 14 | Enough to keep them going for three days . |
| 15 | It was this disappearance that really roused my suspicion , and started me searching for some kind of pattern to make sense of these changes . |
| 16 | But enough , I hope , to start you searching for more . |
| 17 | Our million dollar white knuckle rides such as the wet and wild Great Niagara Rapids , the awesome Missile and the hair-raising Runaway Train will have you screaming for more . |
| 18 | Those U.S. immigration officials who inquire suspiciously if you have a permanent address to go to and sufficient funds to keep you going for 90 days would be providing a more humanitaran service were they to refuse admission to anyone unable to produce documentary proof of passing a course in how to order a American-style breakfast . |
| 19 | Hospitals kept them waiting for scarce beds , but sat on acres of land in the middle of booming cities . |
| 20 | I dared not say a word in case you sent me packing for good . ’ |
| 21 | From traditional African to Jo'burg variety — work song ( gumboot ) , disco , jazz funk , hot gospel — and back again to a sensational African celebration which will leave you shouting for more . |
| 22 | For that we can thank a succulent script , meaty characterisations and four central performances that will leave you begging for more . |
| 23 | But you do not call an ecumenical Council and keep it going for four years at vast expense in order principally to repeat what is already well known to be the teaching of the Church . |
| 24 | But they say you must leave it running for two days . |
| 25 | No sooner did he reach York than he resurrected the York Quarterly and kept it going for five years and nineteen numbers , with the arms of the see on the outer cover , and underneath , ‘ Editor : the Archbishop of York ’ . |
| 26 | It is less easy to see it working for low-information products like , say , custard powder — though the popularity of recipes in food ads suggests at least one justification for longer copy even here . |
| 27 | No wonder the seventh morning with its seventh sun had left me craving for Transylvanian dissolution . |
| 28 | Many secondary teachers are worried about it because they say ‘ The children are coming into the secondary school having perhaps used computers and we ca n't offer them computing for two or three years , erm you know and they 're going to be very frustrated , erm and so perhaps they should n't go into primary ’ . |
| 29 | You could feel the dismay amongst the Leeds players and their fans as it thundered past John Lukic and into the back of the net , leaving them searching for three goals to progress in the competition . |
| 30 | ‘ There is nothing to stop them applying for other nights , but there is no guarantee that they will get them . |