Example sentences of "[subord] [v-ing] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than dying for a reason she does n't comprehend . ’ |
| 2 | if Frank can get some first team football in spain i guess he feels that it will be better for his career than waiting for a chance at leeds — a chance that much likely will not come up . |
| 3 | It 's late now , and it 'll be quicker than waiting for a cab — and it 's insured for all drivers . |
| 4 | Taking a funeral policy can cost less than paying for a funeral plan by instalments but it depends on average life expectancy . |
| 5 | Trailing 6-3 , Cardiff won a last-chance scrum on the Swansea line and the players pressured Hall into running the ball rather than going for a drop goal which would have given them a draw . |
| 6 | So nothing could be more natural than going for a walk and holding hands with mum . |
| 7 | Fighting for a place in the Leeds United line-up must be better and more important than fighting for a place in Norway 's World Cup squad . |
| 8 | It might be a more rational motive than murdering for a person ; less risk of subsequent disenchantment . ’ |
| 9 | Its engine is missing badly and it 's circling round as if looking for a landing-place . |
| 10 | as if looking for a quarrel he went on to exaggerate the uncompromising nature of his position . |
| 11 | The blackjack tail as if looking for a target , |
| 12 | Clive searched his pockets , as if looking for a train ticket . |
| 13 | Fortunately , Nevil was n't looking in his mirror , he had his head out of the driver 's window as if looking for a street name . |
| 14 | Mounce held the note up to the light , as if looking for a watermark . |
| 15 | Are all operators reversible ? if searching for a goal : no if searching for a path : yes |
| 16 | He looked at me and chewed his bottom lip as if searching for a remnant of breakfast . |
| 17 | Are all operators reversible ? if searching for a goal : no if searching for a path : yes |
| 18 | Gerald Seymour-Strachey put himself in a self-conscious pose of memory , as if rehearsing for a television down-memory-lane programme . |
| 19 | as if waiting for a command to bring them to life , Trent thought . |
| 20 | ‘ Ach away , granda , ’ Ranald said , stretching his angular arms into the blue of the sky as if reaching for a star . |
| 21 | The horse stood as if posing for a Munning 's portrait ; black against red ; head arched . |
| 22 | Left leg straight , foot still braced against the ground , heel raised , toes gouged into the litter of leaves as if scrabbling for a hold . |
| 23 | ‘ Poor Tom would have been so very unhappy if he 'd known of this situation , ’ she 'd sniffed while fumbling for a handkerchief . |
| 24 | While urging for a change in the terms of the debate , in the short-term fat women must argue that to be both fat and beautiful is not a contradiction in terms , as part of the process of beginning to celebrate our sexuality . |
| 25 | AN AMERICAN accused of killing a Japanese exchange student who knocked on the wrong door while looking for a Halloween party said he acted in self-defence when his trial opened yesterday . |
| 26 | Authorities said 16-year-old Hattori was shot outside Peairs ' home after he and a friend , Webb Haymaker , knocked on Peairs ' front door while looking for a costume party being held in the same street . |
| 27 | The shooting of Yusef Hawkins last year while looking for a car in another mainly white area of the city led X-Clan to organise ‘ The Taking Of The Brooklyn Bridge ’ , when 10,000 black youths occupied one of the bridges connecting Manhattan Island to the rest of New York in a living roadblock . |
| 28 | Recently while looking for a book on masculinity I was advised by the assistant to look under ‘ womens studies ’ ! |
| 29 | By renting accommodation they can enjoy a short-term lease contract while saving for a deposit to be laid down on a property when the market 's future becomes clearer . |
| 30 | Right Said Fred have made it mega big in Japan — and as a result , the hit-making trio were keen to please while rehearsing for a TV show there . |