Example sentences of "[v-ing] for food " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was like a scene in some stricken Bosnian town where people were scavaging for food , ’ said Bernie today , ‘ Demand is just unbelievable — I had to eventually leave my own telephone off the hook at midnight in order to get some sleep . |
| 2 | They tell y' stories about the past , y' know , the war , or when they were fightin' for food an' clothin' an houses . |
| 3 | This man has the unenviable task of telling hungry women and children queueing for food that they 're waiting in vain . |
| 4 | The Errol Flynn looks crumbled with age , and the man whose strike rate in first-class cricket was better than O'Reilly 's , Mailey 's or Grimmett 's entered the twilight world of trampdom under the bridges of the Yarra , drinking meths and fossicking for food in garbage-bins . |
| 5 | Humans hunting for food , medicine , skins and ornamentation have placed many primates under considerable threat in the Amazon region , Western and Central Africa . |
| 6 | Another theory was that the tusks protect the eyes when the babirusa is hunting for food among thorny undergrowth . |
| 7 | It had always distressed him that the West and the Eastern bloc could both budget so generously for what he considered to be the evils of the nuclear industry while millions in the Third World were left wanting for food . |
| 8 | ‘ Out there , beyond those gates , during the great famine , they gathered in hundreds , howling for food . |
| 9 | Occasionally birds disturb mulches while looking for food |
| 10 | Neither he nor the exiles have done anything to help the starving people who wander the streets of the capital , Monrovia , looking for food and a future . |
| 11 | That settled , we wandered down to the river looking for food and natural wonders . |
| 12 | They wandered the savannah during the day , looking for food , and sometimes met and socialised by the lake with other groups of hominids . |
| 13 | Females , then , could have more babies than the apes could have , because they would n't have to carry them around looking for food . |
| 14 | I can not remember ever feeling hungry ; you did n't have to go looking for food , you just picked it off the trees . |
| 15 | In nature small fish are constantly looking for food , and will eat small amounts whenever they find them . |
| 16 | They were looking for food , of course , and would suddenly plunge downwards at lightning speed when they spotted something . |
| 17 | To pick and choose which plants they were going to eat would put them at a disadvantage since they would waste so much time looking for food , rather than eating it . |
| 18 | It uses them to turn over stones when it is looking for food . |
| 19 | It has a horizontal division across its pupil which effectively gives it four eyes — the two lower halves for seeing underwater , the two upper for doing so in air — and the fish can swim along the surface looking for food above and below it at the same time . |
| 20 | Chickens were looking for food . |
| 21 | While looking for food they are careful not to eat animals or human beings . |
| 22 | A lot of their time was spent looking for food , was n't it ? |
| 23 | I think that was how they had to be , and they 'd be out in this very dangerous environment looking for food , and suddenly they 'd be aware that they 'd , the were coming . |
| 24 | The Mold Crown Court jury also heard that children would share their school dinners with him and he would go looking for food in bins . |
| 25 | Here , there is always more food than any individual would need , and because searching for food as a group is more efficient than searching individually , most dolphins have developed communal and co-operative hunting practices . |
| 26 | A dolphin school will often divide up into subgroups while searching for food , which separate and spread out over a wide area of sea , still diving synchronously — evidence that they are probably in some form of acoustic contact . |
| 27 | ‘ And searching for food , the poor mites . |
| 28 | Unlike most animals , mussels do not expend energy searching for food They wait for the tides and currents to bring it to them . |
| 29 | The larger , bolder birds such as magpies , crows and jackdaws were searching for food on the fairways — on one occasion a golf ball landed near to a crow who nonchalantly moved to one side to avoid the missile . |
| 30 | Pigs normally spend a large amount of their day searching for food and consuming food , and pigs which have no food for a long period often exhibit sham-chewing . |