Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [v-ing] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had tried to locate him for over two years , in both America and Canada , where John had been living and working for a number of years . |
| 2 | One supports that I lay in the street looking and waiting for a a man they mention tonight and that man is a well known killer of British soldiers . |
| 3 | Behind a door , they could hear an audience shuffling , coughing and waiting for a show to start . |
| 4 | There were moments when the sun almost burst through the mist and I kept on driving , waiting and hoping for a first glimpse of the cordillera , my mind groping for some answer to the enigma of Iris Sunderby 's behaviour . |
| 5 | Yes , but On the last comment that er Chris made er bringing us and the letter to county about the the failure of the meeting on the twenty second cos we feel that they are just lying down to the situation and not pursuing a pursuing the D A P about whatsoever and erm we are , certainly in John 's letter probably get it signed tonight complaining and asking for a a meeting as soon as possible because we feel that that they ought to be pursuing the question of these two sites , they 're dragging their feet ! |
| 6 | The footwells need cutting and rewelding for a V8 , so it would be easier to repair yours at the same time as , if you buy a new bulkhead , it will need chopping and welding just the same . |
| 7 | Nathaniel Sherman stumbled slightly at the entrance of his hut , and his wife heard him cursing and fumbling for a long time with the flap fastenings . |
| 8 | Why do n't you stop ranting and raving for a minute and start being honest with yourself ? ’ |
| 9 | He thinks of his show — 6am until 9am — like a relationship ‘ in that it 's constantly changing and looking for a balance . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm on my feet a lot of the day — washing and cooking for a man keeps me busy ’ |
| 11 | I 'm going to be arguing and voting for a no-toll bridge . ’ |
| 12 | First seen alongside Neneh Cherry , singing and standing on her head with the early-Eighties cult dance band Rip Rig And Panic , Andrea Oliver has since sung with a variety of outfits and , in between organising and cooking for a weekly night at West London 's Globe club , has recently joined forces with Malcolm Joseph ( previously with soul band Seventh Heaven ) to form new band , Her . |
| 13 | The police had only recently organized a stake-out in a house just down the road , watching and waiting for a serial murderer to call in at his mother 's council flat to collect his laundry . |
| 14 | They 're a mile from the nearest road and accessible only by foot , unless of course you 're one of the thousands of seabirds wheeling and jostling for a place on the rocky ledges . |
| 15 | What an extraordinary suggestion , to put forward a girl — a charity child who was not a Sister , a novice , a postulant , nor anyone with the remotest intention of becoming a nun — and raise her up above the many Sisters in the Community who were all hoping and praying for a chance of higher education … what would they feel if a girl who had already been pampered , it seemed , by the convent in Knockglen , were put in to study , over their heads ? |
| 16 | ‘ The smiling meadows of Worcestershire and the noble line of the Malvern hills that I love so dearly ’ , he wrote to a member of that titled family from the swamplands of British Guiana in January 1933 , missing and yearning for a home he knew could never be his . |