Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [v-ing] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last night , the town hall 's planning department confirmed the letter has been received merely asking for advice . |
| 2 | At 4 pm the following afternoon he awoke and came downstairs asking for breakfast ! |
| 3 | Soon , for instance , he is seen cheekily jostling for prominence among refugees arriving at Southampton . |
| 4 | Franca said , ‘ Yes , yes , ’ and ran into the other room and started frantically looking for pen and paper . |
| 5 | We grew together struggling for supremacy like a wisteria — two trunks from one root — twining tortuously round each other 's faults and failings and culminating in the glorious flowers of two fine sons and a deep and immovable friendship . |
| 6 | Morthen slashed through the bindings of Tallis 's cloak , stripped the woman as she lay there gasping for breath and life , mind awhirl with confused thoughts , with loss , with fear … with need . |
| 7 | But , with the exception of image processing systems ( see p 62 ) , computers and the documents they generate have only added to the printed matter which covers most desks : even today 95% of business information is paper-based , and every year millions of working hours are wasted just searching for information . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Its provisions included : enforcing a 20 percent reduction in Californian carbon dioxide emissions by the year 2000 , with a 40 percent reduction by 2010 ; protecting the earth 's ozone shield by speeding up the internationally agreed phase-out of chlorofluorocarbons and other damaging chemicals ; banning offshore drilling for oil in state waters ; saving the ancient redwood forests ; and requiring that a new tree be planted for every 500 square feet of development . |