Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [v-ing] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tossed his horse 's reins to a groom and went storming off looking for Dacourt . |
| 2 | Mark : I certainly found quite a distinct difference between actually going out looking for sex , which I often associated with going to discos and , on the other hand , just making friendships which happened in a much more natural and less forced way . |
| 3 | When he was voted the English League 's Player of the Year in 1973 , the Sunday Telegraph marvelled at his new maturity , and described his transformation as being ‘ like Attila The Hun giving up fighting for sculpture . ’ |
| 4 | Now began the real fight for the story , the exclusive , the Kiss ‘ n ’ Tell , which was mostly played out long-range from London , where the editors snarled and the home-side pack were still running around looking for defence ministers or Gorbachev or Cabinet luminaries . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |