Example sentences of "they [verb] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They lay gasping for breath behind some wooden benches . |
| 2 | They stopped speaking for a while , then Gerry offered to take the helm . |
| 3 | They provide backing for such shattering conclusions as the following : s fly . |
| 4 | They provide backing for such shattering conclusions as the following : |
| 5 | Privately owned papers which are unprofitable do exist , but this is because they receive backing for other purposes — political , in most cases . |
| 6 | That has been the dilemma for Hong Kong — the necessity of staunching the flow — and they deserve understanding for a decision that carries all manner of risks for their own future as 1997 nears . |
| 7 | That has been the dilemma for Hong Kong — the necessity of staunching the flow — and they deserve understanding for a decision that carries all manner of risks for their own future as 1997 nears . |
| 8 | Later on , when they stop looking for us , we can go to a port and get right out of the country . ’ |
| 9 | Every day they came looking for me . |
| 10 | When the Government closed two settlement camps near Cirencester in the early sixties , it was here they came looking for jobs . |
| 11 | You know how they like crusading for the cause of the underdog . ’ |
| 12 | They began training for the finals in January involving twice-weekly practice sessions in the Barlaston canteen after work . |
| 13 | It is the process where-by the state encourages and legitimates certain forms of dependency , such as unemployment and early retirement among men aged 60–64 , while subjecting others not only to substantially lower incomes , but also to control procedures intended to ensure that they continue searching for work ( Sinfield 1981 : 142 ) . |
| 14 | He then paid tribute to the Alresford Society , pointing out that when they started pushing for environmental improvements in the 1970s , it was before conservation had come into fashion . |
| 15 | ‘ When you arrived in casualty last night you were covered with blood and they started hunting for the wounds and getting the blood transfusion supplies ready . |
| 16 | And then they started looking for words that might be relevant so that 's quite good . |
| 17 | They go shopping for what they want and mainly they buy from people they know . |
| 18 | They keep searching for something — anything — to sell back home , on Earth . |
| 19 | They went looking for former hotel porter Joao Gomes , 40 , after his wife Maria , 39 , was stabbed to death on Tuesday at her flat on the Elysee Estate in St Helier . |
| 20 | Green activists made some chilling discoveries when they went looking for environmentally friendly fridges . |
| 21 | Afterwards they went scouting for clays that could be re-used ; some cracked on landing , but others had come down whole . |
| 22 | We can reveal exclusively that when Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were in London a few weeks ago they went shopping for baby clothes . |
| 23 | ‘ The Secret Police looked for me just the day after I left and they kept looking for me on and off for a year . |
| 24 | They knew that physically Rose could do much more than she was willing to try , so they kept searching for the key that would restore her will to live without being , unnecessarily , a burden on others . |
| 25 | A number of organisations to which we spoke provided ( paid ) training for people filling such positions , despite the fact that they would only be working for them on a casual basis and might even use the skills they acquired working for other organisations . |
| 26 | All through the week they gathered waiting for someone to pop his or her head round the entrance and shout that there was an audition , and they were off like a shot , their audition clothes naturally packed in a case by their table . |
| 27 | You 've learned there 's no hope with one-night standers , so simply say thanks for the meal , but no thanks when they start asking for the afters . |
| 28 | So will Pakistanis be , when they start paying for it . |
| 29 | For instance : 70 per cent of all employees who were asked said that they liked working for the company . |
| 30 | Let's stop trying to get women to support us by crawling to them — it 's obvious they prefer voting for devils or weeds than for decent men ( let alone decent women ) , and bribing them with a Women 's Ministry did n't work . |