Example sentences of "[v-ing] for a [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overall a recommended buy if you are looking for a simple but powerful professional database . |
| 2 | I was looking for a good and intelligent woman to love — ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Leicester is a city in which we should expect to have a good general bookshop , and we shall be looking for a bigger and better site in the city . ’ |
| 4 | However , the easiest way to distinguish the two groups is that the walker/scrambler will stand at the bottom of a difficult and dangerous mountain looking for a safe and easy way up , and the climber/dangler will stand at the foot of a safe and easy mountain looking for a difficult and dangerous way up . |
| 5 | However , the easiest way to distinguish the two groups is that the walker/scrambler will stand at the bottom of a difficult and dangerous mountain looking for a safe and easy way up , and the climber/dangler will stand at the foot of a safe and easy mountain looking for a difficult and dangerous way up . |
| 6 | It all but invited every cop-hating drug freak , every aggrieved drugs trafficker from the Bekaa Valley to Los Angeles , every ultra-right , gun-running , Contra-supporting machismo addict , and every thwarted narco-terrorist or Muslim extremist looking for a safe or cheap revenge to ‘ terminate ’ him also . |
| 7 | The interviewer is looking for a positive and enthusiastic approach to his or her company . |
| 8 | She gripped the wheel , looking alternately into the rear-view mirror and ahead , searching for a turn-off where she might be able to lose the chasing Audi . |
| 9 | b , Mature males have a higher mortality when searching for a female than on a female 's web . |
| 10 | competition , for remember , at that stage he will be hitting you not only with his carefully laid plan for the first phase of his attack , but also , without any doubt whatsoever , he will have his reinforcements grouping for a second and third attack . |
| 11 | Caring for a disabled or elderly person is clearly associated with lower rates of labour market participation among women . |
| 12 | Based with Knowsley Social Services in Kirkby , Carol 's role is to provide information , advice and support to those caring for a relative or friend with a mental health problems in the Knowlsey area . |
| 13 | This was important , because a national study in 1965 showed that one-fifth of women who were working part-time did so because they were caring for a sick or elderly person . |
| 14 | It 's heading for a two and a half million pound overspend while having to deal with more than nine thousand repairs . |
| 15 | The most pessimistic observers are predicting growth rates of less than 1 per cent , and are suggesting that the Japanese economy is heading for a deep and prolonged recession . |
| 16 | However , he played far better yesterday and was heading for a 67 until he unexpectedly dropped shots at both the 16th and 17th . |
| 17 | For old people living alone or together , there will be risks which they and others may feel is a price worth paying for a richer and more fulfilling life . |
| 18 | so that 's going for a hundred and thirty pounds |
| 19 | Lot number two Lot two is a Japanese ivory carving we 've got that showing for you for seventy five pounds at seventy five pounds , eighty , eighty five , ninety offered I 'm offered ninety pounds and I 'm selling it for ninety , ninety five , a hundred pounds and ten one twenty thirty a hundred and thirty for you sir , coming in at one thirty in the back row , one thirty and selling for a hundred and thirty pounds . |
| 20 | One hundred pounds and ten one twenty one twenty offered to my right , at one twenty and selling for a hundred and twenty pounds . |
| 21 | At one , and ten , twenty one thirty at a hundred and thirty pounds standing , at one thirty , all done , at one hundred and thirty and selling for a hundred and thirty pounds thank you sir , the same buyer , one hundred and thirty pounds for eight five four . |
| 22 | Lot number sixty six Lot number sixty six is another one there we are , there 's another one showing for a hundred pounds at one hundred and ten , at one hundred and ten pounds any more at one ten , one twenty , thirty , forty , fifty one sixty , seventy one eighty at the back against you near me one eighty at the back and selling for a hundred and eighty pounds , all done at one eighty . |
| 23 | For a hundred pounds at one hundred and ten I 'm bid , at one twenty , one thirty at one hundred and thirty pounds any more at one thirty , and selling for a hundred and thirty pounds , you all done at one thirty . |
| 24 | At seventy , seventy five , eighty pounds eighty five , ninety pounds ninety five , a hundred one hundred pounds against you , one ten to my right , against you at the back one ten to my right , at one ten and selling for a hundred and ten . |
| 25 | One sixty in the back row at one sixty and selling for a hundred and sixty , one seventy standing one eighty one ninety one ninety , two hundred pounds any more ? |
| 26 | It was a bit like sitting very quietly in a forest and waiting for a rare and timid wild animal to come out . |
| 27 | The structure plan can not be seen for providing for a major or sudden change in direction . |
| 28 | They 've joined councillors and regular book borrowers in calling for a better-funded and better-used service . |
| 29 | The crusade you are beginning for a great and united national effort to revive industry and to rescue the mass of our population from hardship and suffering of unnecessary poverty deserves , and I believe will receive , the support of earnest and sympathetic men and women of all parties and of that large and increasing number of electors who have no party affiliations . |
| 30 | Well , in the in the question of I M R O as far as it 's erm occupational pension scheme members are concerned , er there 's no there 's no compensation responsibility and I think that that means that you get no , no whistle blowing and in I mean there 's , we 've got , I mean one of the points that we , we heard of just last evening was that one of the of the banks involved ended up er in its arrangements with Maxwell of asking for a hundred and sixty per cent of shares for every hundred per cent of loans that it made to Maxwell . |