Example sentences of "[v-ing] for my [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps I am atoning for my misspent youth , ’ he replied amiably . |
| 2 | So I 'd thank Mr Fry for his kind advice and start saving for my first toot toute suite … |
| 3 | I 'm looking for my two cousins . |
| 4 | No , I 'm looking for my two daughters . |
| 5 | ‘ I was adopted , and I 'm looking for my real mother . ’ |
| 6 | Sunday was bath-night , so my big sister Etty would be given the task of looking for my younger brother Jerry , Anna , the youngest of our family , and myself . |
| 7 | I take a size 13 and have to start searching for my next shoes immediately after breaking in a pair of new ones . |
| 8 | As you can see , it 's not easy , and sometimes it really makes one unhappy that I can not bring it out properly , since my primary audience hope ) is writing for my own people . |
| 9 | I was going for my usual roundhouse and the Lord said , ‘ Do n't finish that roundhouse . ’ |
| 10 | I 'm just waiting for my international clearance now , which should only take a few days , and then I 'll be aiming to challenge for a first team place . ’ |
| 11 | I 'm waiting for my own funds . ’ |
| 12 | Now she thinks , not his cock but his tongue , I should have cut his tongue out with them , his slow quicksilver tongue ; for he partly took me backwards out of my joy , into an old timidity that 's there still ; and it 's made a meal of me sometimes teaching , when the sharper ones have had me squirming for my lazy luck . |
| 13 | When I was asking for my referred leads yesterday , what did I say ? |
| 14 | Some of the reasons they encountered for not losing weight included ‘ I have n't been to the toilet yet today ’ , ‘ I 've been arguing with my husband ’ , ‘ I absorb fat through my skin ’ , ( especially popular with people working in chip shops and serving school meals ) and ‘ it 's the cough medicine I 'm having for my sore throat ’ . |
| 15 | And then , just as I was reaching for my battered copy of Einstein , Jon Snow gave away the secret . |
| 16 | Apart from words denoting motion or process , which always have me reaching for my inverted commas ( ‘ give ’ , ‘ fall ’ , ‘ eat ’ , ‘ defecate ’ ) , the written language makes plain sense , unlike the spoken . |
| 17 | Some of them had come quite a way , from Phobos , even , people I knew when I was still hustling for my white card . |
| 18 | For me , movies and play were enmeshed during childhood , a certain cinema and its environs being both stimulus and setting for my juvenile adventures to the extent that , thirty years later , its contours and hidey holes still haunt my dreams . |
| 19 | I spent seven long days pining for my new family and staring miserably at two crumpled photos . |