Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must have been walking for nearly an hour , he thought . |
| 2 | After walking for approximately a quarter of a mile he stopped outside a small detached cottage on his left . |
| 3 | I carry on walking for quite a bit . |
| 4 | The defendant 's fourth sub-head of complaint was that the judge did this when the jury had been deliberating for only an hour , citing Reg. v. McKenna [ 1960 ] 1 Q.B . |
| 5 | Joking apart Kevin has been training for nearly a year . |
| 6 | Ireland now face defending champions Scotland this morning with the Scots looking for just a draw to retain their title . |
| 7 | The situation forced the company to downsize from 35 to six people and start looking for either a buyer or non-exclusive licensees . |
| 8 | Detective Chief Superintendent Alan Shannon , who is heading the investigation , said : ‘ We are looking for either a youth or a young man . |
| 9 | The head and individual staff members meeting for about an hour to discuss the staff member 's responsibilities and the way that the school has progressed over the year ; particular stress being placed on the successes of the staff member and in finding areas of development and growth . |
| 10 | WRECS , which has been operating for almost a decade , now boasts a membership of more than 40 who attended the evening of festive fun at the Pavilion Club , Barlaston , complete with refreshments and cabaret . |
| 11 | The narrow gauge line 's diesel locomotive and two former man-rider carriages have been operating for almost a year at a small extra charge to visitors . |
| 12 | Balleny 's voyage was a commercial failure , the sealskins he unloaded paying for only a fraction of the expedition . |
| 13 | The fuel would have been sufficient to keep the boat going for only a couple of hours , he added . |
| 14 | ‘ But I think I could keep it going for quite a while . |
| 15 | Doubt it cos it was convalescing for quite a while . |
| 16 | First , Mr Delors — who had earlier sent a furious letter to Mr Major , complaining of Britain 's lack of faith over the TV pact — had kept him waiting for over an hour at Heathrow while his flight from Brussels was delayed by fog . |
| 17 | The rest of the queen-dowager 's words were drowned by the prince 's whoops of joy — and the cardinal , kept waiting for over an hour , hearing the hullabaloo , exchanged relieved glances with his fellows . |
| 18 | I had kept him waiting for over an hour , though he was n't too annoyed as he had been able to retrieve three brand new titanium ice screws and a rope , left , we presumed , after an incident the night before when we had a helicopter hovering above the face . |
| 19 | They were kept waiting for just a couple of minutes — ‘ While Mr Magill completes a call ’ in a cool-warm windowless reception area soundproofed so that even the loudest complaint about a bill would come out as a hushed croak then ushered through into an office that was almost straight from Charles Dickens . |
| 20 | JACKO kept fuming police waiting for nearly an hour as he went on a midnight shopping spree — for new toys . |
| 21 | ‘ Now do stop fussing around , ’ his wife said to him after he had been tossing and turning for about an hour . |
| 22 | Your readers may or not be aware of the consternation currently being experienced in south-west Scotland following the installation of ‘ improved ’ technology at the Carlisle office of the Royal Mail whither our post has been taken for sorting for almost a decade . |
| 23 | Only one Japanese factory ship remains in operation , and one Japanese whaling company is left , accounting for only a fraction of the income that once was earned from whale products . |
| 24 | As this was a population study the results on lung function and respiratory illness depended on the majority of children who were term babies and had normal birth weight , with low birth weight or premature infants accounting for only a minority . |
| 25 | A lone man at nearly midnight , wearing a thin jacket in a storm that had been blowing for over an hour … |
| 26 | The rock here , naturally , is limestone , and prodigiously fissured , while the walk through the Gorges is hard-going in places , and rough , continuing for almost a mile until the prepared path , such as it is , peters out . |
| 27 | At Sokolnitz the first shots were fired about seven o'clock the bombardment continuing for almost an hour . |
| 28 | So I think I 'm asking for just a bit more , more talks and where there is a , a home or homes in a rural area that may be the only home in that area , so it is available to local people that Social Services come in and there in an understanding in planning authorities first and now the actual criteria we 're working on because most local people will think that home is for local people . |
| 29 | The independent Spanish magazine Piragüismo de las Autonomías has been running for about a year now . |
| 30 | NICOLA Delacour ( 18 ) , from Newtownards used to work in a building society but has now been modelling for nearly a year . |