Example sentences of "[vb infin] [v-ing] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The players should not need motivating for a match against Manchester United . |
| 2 | This represents a notional calculation of the benefit gained by living in one 's own house or , in other words , the rent which one would consider paying for the use of the house . |
| 3 | All parents hope their child will enjoy reading for the pleasure of it . |
| 4 | The tension disc at the top of the yarn mast will need adjusting for the thread . |
| 5 | I suppose if I had to make the choice , I would sacrifice skiing for the sake of the hills . |
| 6 | He would n't mind going for a labourer , though there were n't that many jobs ; nor would he have minded going down to his uncle Henry Yaxlee 's yard to help out with the horses . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's pride , see , not many men would like working for a lady , mind . ’ |
| 8 | Then followed the 4500 , the first ribbing attachment — which worked on some days and not on others ( on the latter I would give up and stop knitting for the day ! ) . |
| 9 | That sufferers from alcoholism can not stop drinking for a day , a week , a month , a year or more . |
| 10 | It is , as far as he knows , the only way of coming downstairs , but sometimes he feels that there is really another way if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it . ’ |
| 11 | It is , as far as he knows , the only way of coming downstairs , but sometimes he feels that there really is another way , if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it . |
| 12 | would it be yeah every time erm this microphone like got a sharp noise hit to it yeah would it like sort of stop working for a while ? |
| 13 | What would you prefer asking for a boy or a girl ? |
| 14 | So why do n't you try listening for a change ? ’ |
| 15 | Upfront and honest , she is concerned about rights and wrongs and would rather die shouting for a cause than hide behind a corporate banner . |
| 16 | From this you can then judge when you can risk sleeping for an hour or two and so be much fresher for the more likely feeding times . |
| 17 | Not only is it raining , it 's 5 o'clock , and though I 'm not defeatist by nature I do n't even bother looking for a taxi , deciding instead to walk the two miles back to the London flat . |
| 18 | The lads would say they were out of beer money , so I 'd go looking for a booth . |
| 19 | Alex Salmond did n't go looking for a fight but Ian Lang gave him one anyway . |
| 20 | I can not understand why , after arriving at Kinghorn , he refused to wait up for his royal master and did not go looking for the King . |
| 21 | ‘ I am sure Marx did not recognize the existence of ghosts , ’ said Bernard , ‘ but please do n't go looking for the reference ; not now ! ’ |
| 22 | If he is insulting enough to make an offer for Aitken of the amount I have seen quoted , he need n't bother waiting for an answer . |
| 23 | " Care " is not defined in the Act but according to the Guidance it " must mean providing for the child 's health and total development ( physical , intellectual , emotional , social and behavioural ) and not just having physical charge of him " ( para 3.23 ) . |
| 24 | But to be all too sure of oneself — of who one is , of what one wants — might easily mean riding for a fall , and heroes in that style are prudently disinclined to flaunt their state of mind or to recommend it to others . |
| 25 | And , and I 'm against any Trust status which they tend to , to go because I believe that the beginning of our campaign that because was talking last year about Trust status it did alienate a lot of people against and said , why should we bother fighting for a hospital what would go Trust anyway . |
| 26 | ‘ But why bother working for a scurvy Earth company , then ? ’ |
| 27 | And I think Norwich will come looking for a win . |
| 28 | If it was my sister , I too would come looking for the man responsible . |
| 29 | De Gaulle was refusing military co-operation within NATO unless the Anglo-American nuclear club was widened into a tri-partite relationship ; and Washington feared that the Germans might also start pressing for a finger on the nuclear trigger . |
| 30 | I decided to make one last attempt after which I would start looking for a place from where I could obtain a map of the city . |