Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | At 8am a convoy of vans and unmarked police cars swept out heading for the addresses . |
| 3 | As a result , many of AEA 's bright scientists and engineers went out hunting for work . |
| 4 | And yet , because of a shortage of telephone lines in the old east , and even though the government has a legal monopoly , it will allow the networks to go on operating for at least another year . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ There is nothing worse than players hanging around waiting for the next instruction . |
| 7 | The professionals sat around waiting for the gentlemen to return before the match was called off . |
| 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 | We had to get on to the barge before these two characters unwittingly alerted the army sentries across the road , or before the Friends of the Tourists turned up looking for us . |
| 10 | ‘ I only told you about her staying away a lot and men turning up looking for her and things like that . |
| 11 | The two men went about readying for flight , with practised , unspoken efficiency . |
| 12 | ‘ The council really needs to consider fully the effect this would have upon the ratepayers , particularly if other groups come along asking for similar dispensation , ’ the DoE spokesperson also explained . |
| 13 | All too often husbands actually prevented their wives from coming to the picket line and there were cases where parents-in-law forced women to go on working for the sort of reasons described in Chapter 6 . |
| 14 | But she 's noticed among her friends that women carry on trying for much longer . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |