Example sentences of "[vb pp] [v-ing] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sampson , like many others , had come looking for a kill before the numbers fell . |
| 2 | New boys were excused fagging for a fortnight until they had found their feet . |
| 3 | X.desktop had the edge over VUE because of its availability under VMS , aside from any uncomfortable feelings DEC might have had opting for a product from one of its biggest competitors . |
| 4 | The dinner hour was spent revising for a test we 're supposed to be having on . |
| 5 | Here , unfortunately , no restaurant area is yet available to allow customers to eat what they buy where they buy it , but the time spent waiting for a takeaway sandwich will be an invaluable education in Italian food . |
| 6 | Meanwhile Jaqueline , accompanied by her children , and a friend , Caroline , has gone looking for a reunion with Tommy . |
| 7 | The father went on : ‘ I believe she said he had stopped breathing for a couple of seconds , and if we had n't had him at the hospital when it happened we would have more than likely lost him . ’ |
| 8 | They had a whirlwind romance , and after a few months she 'd started hinting for a ring . |
| 9 | Moreover , just as the connection between certain looks and shame is one which we learn solely by experience , ‘ without which … we should no more have taken blushing for a sign of shame than of gladness ’ , so is the connection between certain visual experiences , and distance and size . |
| 10 | ‘ You can do nothing to make up for the time that 's been wasted checking for a link between that incident and the murder of Hal MacQuillan . ’ |
| 11 | Now the Warsaw pact has completely dissolved itself , so the experts in SHAPE headquarters at NATO are left looking for a role for NATO to perform . |
| 12 | At the same time an agreement was signed providing for a grant of 2,400,000 European currency units ( ECU1=US$1.19255 as at March 26 , 1990 ) to help combat marine pollution especially by oil . |
| 13 | In Stuttgart in 1983 the so-called Stuttgart Mandate was issued calling for a brake upon agricultural expenditure . |
| 14 | At the Consumer Congress conference held in July 1988 a resolution was passed calling for a Transport ( Scotland ) Bill732 , an enforceable code of good practice for the operation and provision of public transport . |
| 15 | After a visit to such a museum I 'm always left pining for a chance to seek out my own sample of the lovely stuff . |
| 16 | Either they have been slobby , and it has eventually got depressing having to argue the case for owning a toothbrush ; or they have been scrupulous — in which case I have started longing for a bit more rough-and-readiness . |
| 17 | When he presented a new Kwik-Cricket set to the Barbadian Secretary of State for Education , the minister promptly moved desks , bookshelves and even delayed leaving for a cabinet meeting so that he could play the game in his office . |
| 18 | So you 're not kept waiting for a decision . |
| 19 | More recently Halifax Labour MP Alice Mahon has given backing for a code , and referred the matter to the parliamentary select health committee for consideration . |
| 20 | ‘ I have jumped a bit when a car has backfired or the central heating has rumbled thinking for a moment I was hearing gun fire . |