Example sentences of "[v-ing] for a [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ferdinand believed Godoy was scheming for a regency to exclude him from the throne ; Godoy knew that Ferdinand was intriguing against him with the French ambassador . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm on my feet a lot of the day — washing and cooking for a man keeps me busy ’ |
| 3 | After struggling for a moment to stop it , I screamed and dropped the lot . |
| 4 | Had n't she been watching the models for weeks and dying for a chance to imitate them ? |
| 5 | Knowing what I do now [ he says ] , I think the DIA was looking for a way to get me back to Beirut to salvage what it could from the Asmar wreck . |
| 6 | And erm and then we went and got my fruit and veg and then we went in Top Marks and got them so we never got we went through for a video really , never got round to looking for a video did we ? |
| 7 | He says : we 're looking for a millionaire to buy it for his wife as the ideal shopping car . |
| 8 | ‘ Called hup this morning , ’ Willie heard him say , ‘ so if you know anyone who 'd be looking for a job let me know . |
| 9 | By looking for a set result you are excluding all the learning potential from the exercise . |
| 10 | You know Matilda is always looking for a reason to punish you . ’ |
| 11 | Hunter-Blair said he warned MacQuillan that it was being whispered around Westminster that the unions had evolved a protective strategy and were looking for an opportunity to test it . |
| 12 | ‘ I think , ’ he murmured softly , ‘ I was looking for an excuse to shake you … ’ |
| 13 | He was inclined to believe he had been looking for an excuse to ring her , which was foolish because he did not need an excuse . |
| 14 | The only good and powerful females I can think of are fairies ( ie , not real people ) and for every fairy godmother there are 10 wimpy heroines waiting for a prince to rescue them . |
| 15 | As a Cheltenham magistrate Cranog Jones has sat in judgement of many but tonight he 's waiting for a jury to delever it 's verdict on him . |
| 16 | Try pulling one of the other 's single doors open on a mountain in a gale waiting for a gust to catch it and snap the stay . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | Gazzer wasted twenty minutes on the sea front waiting for a bus to take him up as far as the Leisure Centre . |
| 19 | Pop , as the Japs drew nearer , had organised the men with one of our Mission doctors , and they hoped to walk out up the Chindwin Valley and over into Assam , but unfortunately for Pop his feet had gone septic , and at the end he was dumped on Myitkya airfield for a night and a day , waiting for a plane to take him over to Dibrugarh in Assam . |
| 20 | as if waiting for a command to bring them to life , Trent thought . |
| 21 | Brides do not tremble , they fuss ; bridesmaids even more so , and men stand about sheepishly , collies waiting for a whistle telling them what to do . |
| 22 | She was waiting for an ambulance to take her to St Thomas ' Hospital . |
| 23 | At that particular time I would n't tell them anything , all my all at that particular time is waiting for an appointment to see them . |
| 24 | Tonight Rebekah Ashford should be in hospital in London preparing for an operation to give her a new lease of life . |
| 25 | As he had always suspected , she was just waiting and watching for an opportunity to rip him to pieces . |
| 26 | Louis XV was not , however , enthusiastic about the scheme and , after trying for a year to interest him , de Broglie , a soldier , decided to pool his information and ideas with de Choiseul , who , controlling the Ministries of Marine , War and Foreign Affairs , had been making independent plans of his own . |
| 27 | He had forgotten all about arranging for a taxi to pick him up or looking up bus times or anything like that . |