Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean waiting for me ? ’ |
| 2 | While I contemplate screaming for mercy . ) |
| 3 | ‘ Leo , she said warningly , ‘ I have had as much as I intend taking for one day . |
| 4 | I support bargaining for London . |
| 5 | I enjoy working for the agency . |
| 6 | I am now sixteen and like most sixteen year old girls I enjoy shopping for clothes and shoes . |
| 7 | I stand gasping for breath , as I realise where I am : stuck on a strip of concrete railway within a pair of electric rails , twenty feet above the ground . |
| 8 | I stand listening for a moment — crying could ruin everything — but there 's only the rhythmic suck-suck , suck-suck , suck-suck as it breathes and sucks on the medicine . |
| 9 | I recall leading for the Opposition in the early 1970s on the Fair Trading Act 1973 . |
| 10 | ‘ I remember thinking for a long time afterwards that it must have been Uncle Titch 's , ’ said William , and Preston stared at him in astonishment , shocked not so much by the thought of Uncle Titch and Mary Moxton in carnal embrace as by this sudden insight into William 's dark imaginings . |
| 11 | The toy that I remember lasting for quite a long time was a beautifully made wooden engine with its tender and two trucks . |
| 12 | I remember digging for what seemed like hours to lift those bulbs , so make sure you plant them where they will not need to be moved and allow ample room for their growth . |
| 13 | In the early 1960s I remember caddying for Brian Huggett and Peter Butler , but in those days we caddied for many players . |
| 14 | I was in touch several times by telephone , and I remember noticing for the first time a slight labouring for breath on his part , which was to become increasingly marked . |
| 15 | ‘ I remember crying for about half an hour , ’ says Matthew , now 20 and working as a bank teller in Kew . |
| 16 | I remember coming for tea and er the table was where it is now I do n't know whether it was |
| 17 | But third , and most powerfully , I remember working for ‘ the scholarship exam ’ , direct predecessor of the eleven-plus . |
| 18 | I try walking for a bit with my eyes closed proper , but I keep having to open them cos I 'm scared I 'm going to bump into summat . |
| 19 | So erm , round his bottom and it 's all round know , and I keep looking for signs of bleeding and all this . |
| 20 | Doing sixty miles every hour , and I keep going for ten hours . |
| 21 | and then the first day I stop , I 've usually got flu , I 'm exhausted , I ca n't get out of bed , I feel rotten , but if I keep going for like , three weeks to a month , just on six hours , that 's fine , but the first day I stop I 'm like , in bed for a week ill usually . |
| 22 | Well , I keep waiting for one of these free offers to come in the newspaper . |
| 23 | But er eventually I found out that er , er , I ca n't er work peacefully here , because if I stopped for er , fighting for the benefit of the workers then er they will think that er I have been bribed or something like this and if I keep fighting for them then there 's no peace of mind , there 's always struggle , so I thought I 'll leave , and the second was , that I wanted to bring my family into this country and I was n't saving anything while leaving them because that 's a bit expensive area and er , the person who got the job for me he said let's migrate to Yorkshire . |
| 24 | There are so many great young designers there now and everyone knows just how much I love shopping for clothes , ’ said Kylie . |
| 25 | I love shopping for excellent ingredients and would rather spend time on this than anything else . |
| 26 | Needs some help and gets it from Thomson who started this move off and lifted in towards Agnew , Cooper clears it still has n't gone out and er Phillips just prevented it I think going for a corner , yes it 's a throw . |
| 27 | And that is I think going for about ninety eight . |
| 28 | I take modelling for what it is ; I made money I 'd never otherwise have made so quickly , and I 'm still young enough to do something else . |
| 29 | ALTHOUGH SHE HATE POSING FOR PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS SHE NEVER MINDED WHEN BERNARD WANTED TO USE HER AS A MODEL . |
| 30 | ‘ You want paying for your help ? ’ |