Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [v-ing] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a pupil came in asking for a special book , he would rush and find it before Mr Crangle . |
| 2 | And although scores of people turned up looking for a pet , new waifs were being brought in almost as quickly . |
| 3 | He flew around hoping for a break in the visibility . |
| 4 | We went on walking for a while , in silence . |
| 5 | They took up flying for a hobby and say all you need is courage and a taste for adventure . |
| 6 | ( Norman Mailer gave up smoking for a year and wrote not one word in that time . ) |
| 7 | The fact was that Charles gave up shooting for a few years because he had simply grown bored with it : it was too easy to blast away overfed birds frightened into the air by a band of beaters . |
| 8 | I , I , I , carried on smoking for a number of years after that . |
| 9 | And erm and then like , he went back in after we 'd finished playing and me and Scott carried on playing for a bit and then erm what was he going ? |
| 10 | ‘ And Gabby turned out to be particularly good , which saved him from having to do the usual terrible , crap jobs that the Hawaiians had to do , and he ended up playing for a living in just about every joint in Hawaii — and there were lots of them in those days , because live music was a big thing . |
| 11 | For years they suffered in silence while barriers were pranged , concrete bollards damaged and other cars blocked in as the 23-year-old careered around looking for a space in the car park . |