Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prevailing mood is disgust ; at the pathetic inarticulacy of the great ape on a rugby field , Frank Machin , and the blocked emotions of his landlady and lover , who has given up hoping for anything since her husband 's death . |
| 2 | In fact , liberal or not , she has come back to work for the ANC , though her exact capacity is not made clear . |
| 3 | UCAN said Amnesty has written back to ask for further details . |
| 4 | There is one noticeable omission in the cavalcade he has lined up to speak for Europe : Mikhail Gorbachev and his ‘ common European house ’ . |
| 5 | 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 … |
| 6 | That he 'd gone out to look for her on the road and across the clunch pit field , returning alone half an hour later . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Michael , if I 'd lost him I 'd have gone out to look for him — he died . ’ ’ |
| 9 | They found that for married men who were household heads under age 45 , the proportions ‘ out of work ’ ( a wider concept than we used which included those who had given up looking for work because they did n't think any was available ) was about nine times as high in the local authority as in the occupied sector . |
| 10 | I sent back a tirade of bitter invective , written during a long , lonely evening when Richard was dining in college : did she think that because I had given up working for my degree I was necessarily isolated from intelligent thought ? |
| 11 | Nothing in the South Ronaldsay community would approach normality for a very long time , and most people from the village and the surrounding community had turned out to discover for themselves what was happening , and then to lend their support to the stricken families . |
| 12 | In fact , he had hung on waiting for her to go , avoiding her . |
| 13 | He recognized the voice of Beverley 's servant , Parry , who had become anxious about Giles 's safety , and had set out to search for him . |
| 14 | But her mother , who was hostile to facts , had gone on entertaining for her as if she were a chaste child just emerging from school . |
| 15 | He had gone in to look for adventure , but had found love , he told Lord Henry . |
| 16 | He had gone out looking for these mule packers who had wandered off the trail , hunting them all day and finding them , three mozos and eighteen mules , an hour before dark and a moment before the sudden gunfire came out of the canyon walls and caught them and ended four of the mules . |
| 17 | and new manager John Gorman could't have dreamt up wished for a better start … |
| 18 | Around the harbour , fishermen 's tavernas still jostle side by side with the newer cafés and bars which have sprung up to cater for the younger market , and the main daytime activity seems to be relaxing over a quiet glass of something while watching the boats chug in and out . |
| 19 | This part of the city lacks the individual character of Robyn 's own suburb , where healthfood stores and sportswear boutiques and alternative bookshops have sprung up to cater for the students and liberal-minded yuppies who live there ; and still more does it lack the green amenities of the residential streets around the University . |
| 20 | Club bosses are on their toes and a string of new clubs have sprung up to cater for kinky lonely-heart foot fetishists who recently won respectability after a couple of celebrated court cases . |
| 21 | Rabobank NV and Amsterdam-based Getronics NV have teamed up to bid for the second Dutch Groupe Speciale Mobile digital cellular licence . |
| 22 | ‘ The view is , she 's gone over to look for her brother . |
| 23 | She 's gone down to pay for the , get something out of the boot outside . |
| 24 | So what we 're , he 's gone in asked for something . |