Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no alternative for the guilds than for them to go out to trade for assistance , passing on their additional expenditure to the client . |
| 2 | After a while I sat down in a secret place by the Cherwell and fell to musing about how I had once myself aspired to Oxford , how one of my lecturers at Edinburgh had urged me to go on to read for a B.Litt. there , but of course the war had put an end to any such ambitions . |
| 3 | This may have brought comfort to some but statistically it was as risky as playing Russian roulette , and I laid off smoking for the next seven years . |
| 4 | The following year , in May , I sneaked off to audition for Tiller without my mother 's knowledge . |
| 5 | And I came out to look for you . ’ |
| 6 | I mean yesterday after I had me dinner I dropped off to sleep for a couple of hours cos |
| 7 | Now that 's settled can I carry on moping for a few hours more ? ’ |
| 8 | I set off to look for Nigel — quite a long way down , as the staircases did n't connect and one had to walk the complete length of the first-floor gallery before descending the second . |
| 9 | When I left Nellie I hung about waiting for Dad 's protection but he did n't appear . |
| 10 | But I went on grubbing for wood . |
| 11 | So I went out to look for something else . |
| 12 | ‘ I went in to look for adventure , but I found love , ’ Dorian told Lord Henry . |
| 13 | You remember I said I went off looking for Nicola ? ’ |
| 14 | I went back to work for two days a week in December when Isha was six months old . |
| 15 | Still , Mr Dysart went to see what 'e could do , while I went back to phone for the police . |
| 16 | Could n't tell unless I went back to look for spent arrows , which I was n't going to do . |
| 17 | I was interested in the waves of immigration into Britain both pre-historically and later , and I kept on looking for proposals which would represent this both in multi-cultural and archaeological terms . |
| 18 | He went on : ‘ I could get more money if I gave up performing for master classes but I do n't continue working for the money . |
| 19 | The registration plates said it was only two years old but I stopped believing registration plates about two years before I gave up waiting for the tooth fairy . |
| 20 | I carry on walking for quite a bit . |
| 21 | But because I was in like really really tight tights , er like and then a pair of ski pants over the top er , my whole leg was like , you know , sort of soaked in and this bloke was there going , hee , that 's pretty impressive and I was like , I 'm not going to let him know I was crying and like got up and went to the top of the slope and I carried on skiing for about an extra half an hour , but like when I got home , and I just took off , my whole leg started , feet swelling as I took the like , the tight like leggings off . |
| 22 | After positioning the wad in my cheek I sat around waiting for the hit , feeling smug with my new-found anthropological skills . |
| 23 | I knew I should go back to the stockade now , but an idea came to me and I sat down to wait for darkness . |
| 24 | I ended up paying for him . |
| 25 | ‘ Folly , I do n't want you to go on looking for a place of your own . |
| 26 | I have a good mind to ask you to serve full-time on my reporting staff , but I am selfish enough to want you to go on writing for me these exposés of low life , particularly the way in which such misery afflicts women . |
| 27 | Now — are you going on looking for more ? ’ |
| 28 | Meaning if you hang on hoping for something to turn up , you invariably lose much more . |
| 29 | Ianthe remembered as she walked along looking for number 28 that her dressmaker had lived very near here , but somehow , after she had made one or two mourning dresses for her after her mother had died , Ianthe had lost touch with her . |
| 30 | This afternoon you started out apologising for spying on me , and ended up accusing me of spying on you . ’ |