Example sentences of "[adv prt] [v-ing] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few youngsters may go on sniffing for a while — perhaps regularly with their friends . |
| 2 | We went on walking for a while , in silence . |
| 3 | POP mogul Pete Waterman is turning his multi-million empire upside down searching for a spy . |
| 4 | ‘ Folly , I do n't want you to go on looking for a place of your own . |
| 5 | You know , you go on looking for a solution to this difficult problem . |
| 6 | The over-zealous male then realises his mistake , lets him go and carries on searching for a female . |
| 7 | I , I , I , carried on smoking for a number of years after that . |
| 8 | It also allows the police and Customs to permit accountants to go on acting for a client after they have disclosed suspicious activity to them . |
| 9 | ( Norman Mailer gave up smoking for a year and wrote not one word in that time . ) |
| 10 | And although scores of people turned up looking for a pet , new waifs were being brought in almost as quickly . |
| 11 | If you 've just done a 12-mile ridge-walk then I 'm sure nothing will be further from your thoughts , but if you plan a weekend away with a person you 've fancied for ages and somehow end up heading for a bothy , unless you are totally alone any thought of a fumble in the sleeping-bag should be out of the question . |
| 12 | Probably , you will end up paying for a remix . |
| 13 | They took up flying for a hobby and say all you need is courage and a taste for adventure . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | The other dhāmis carry on dancing for a while and then their gods go too . |
| 16 | He had both a yellow and a red stain across his chest and he was turning around with his arms out appealing for a referee , then he turned and trudged back to the farmhouse for his time penalty . |
| 17 | Wander around looking for a boy in half-dead trainers with green Dayglo socks showing through . |
| 18 | I sometimes think that if we were back in biblical days and John the Baptist was running around looking for a wilderness he would n't go to the desert he would come to Creggan ! |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't go around looking for a job , ’ he said , ‘ though I 'm flattered by the speculation . |
| 21 | Our porn challenges the received myths about our love-making , as Gillian Rodgerson pointed out when she argued that lesbians need to produce their own because ‘ then the myth that all lesbian sex is two women lounging around waiting for a man to join them , might finally be exploded . ’ |
| 22 | But men who 'd probably been men since the age of 14 , when they decided that school was a wank and that , rather than hanging around waiting for a dead-end job , they 'd go out and find their own way to make a living . |
| 23 | He flew around hoping for a break in the visibility . |
| 24 | We 'd sit around chatting for a bit then go on to whatever was happening that evening . |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | They carry on arguing for a bit , then Peter hits the cymbal again . |
| 27 | Er so so when you left school how did you go about looking for a job ? |
| 28 | What sort of thing — for instance , one of the problems in some areas might be that the buses erm do n't erm that there is an insufficient bus service late in the evening , so a lot of kids hang about waiting for a bus and get into trouble waiting . |
| 29 | Dad would go out very early each morning , without even a cup of tea inside him , to tramp round looking for a job — anything to tide us over . |
| 30 | So the dream becomes a symbolic expression of this conflict and what very often happens is the there 's a kind of compromise in which you go off and look for the bathroom or the drink of water or whatever it is you want , but the dream keeps postponing you finding it , in order to lengthen the dream and the state of sleep , so you go on sleeping for a bit longer . |