Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McLaren then began shopping around for another label , pointedly ignoring Virgin . |
| 2 | ‘ So , I started looking around for another job and heard that Mike Martinez , the agent , was looking for someone to do some secretarial work and some negotiating , and that he preferred English girls for such work . |
| 3 | And that 's when we started putting in for annual wage increases . |
| 4 | Shrimp kept going up for some water , trod on Andrew . |
| 5 | No matter how dismally he fared , he kept coming back for more . |
| 6 | But one matter the Society resisted pronouncing on for some time was the question of its own criteria for membership . |
| 7 | His beleaguered , sexless pseudo-intellectual made rewarding cut-price TV ( no better than when played off Sid James ’ superb guffawing spiv ) , and continued paying off for five years , seven BBC series , abut four key sackings by the Great Man , and at least 500 better gags than the ‘ armful ’ one . |
| 8 | By the end of the 1730s Truman 's Brewery had getting on for 300 publicans on the books , though less than a tenth were tied houses actually owned by the brewery . |
| 9 | He stood looking down for some time . |