Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The BBC 's Children 's Department , Newman felt , was still catering for only a small proportion of the nation 's youngsters : the ordered few for whom parents bought Look & Learn , The Eagle or maybe even Hotspur . |
| 2 | I must have been walking for nearly an hour , he thought . |
| 3 | After walking for approximately a quarter of a mile he stopped outside a small detached cottage on his left . |
| 4 | I carry on walking for quite a bit . |
| 5 | I had been walking for only a few minutes when I was surprised to see Miss Stapleton sitting on a rock ahead of me . |
| 6 | Specialised studies of sex as a social experience have been appearing for almost a hundred years , since at least the time of the great pioneering sexologists and anthropologists of the late nineteenth century ; and what appeared then were works which have been profoundly influential , not only in describing but in constructing and delineating the areas to be discussed . |
| 7 | There is a huge dining-room on the seventh floor , with seating for over a thousand , and the Galaxia Night Club on the ninth floor has panoramic views of the bay of Funchal . |
| 8 | The defendant 's fourth sub-head of complaint was that the judge did this when the jury had been deliberating for only an hour , citing Reg. v. McKenna [ 1960 ] 1 Q.B . |
| 9 | Joking apart Kevin has been training for nearly a year . |
| 10 | No no no it 's a well taken goal and and that 's that 's what he was looking for just a little touch on . |
| 11 | Ireland now face defending champions Scotland this morning with the Scots looking for just a draw to retain their title . |
| 12 | The situation forced the company to downsize from 35 to six people and start looking for either a buyer or non-exclusive licensees . |
| 13 | I think there 's less risk of you being caught then — Lee 's and your mother 's people are looking for either a single man and woman or two unrelated young people ; it seems as if they think it 's inconceivable that you should have remained together . |
| 14 | Detective Chief Superintendent Alan Shannon , who is heading the investigation , said : ‘ We are looking for either a youth or a young man . |
| 15 | It revealed in September that it was looking for either an outright buyer or a substantial injection of capital for a minority stake in order to expand the publication . |
| 16 | A limitation of our study is that we had baseline data on smoking for only a few of the subjects and could not completely control for the potentially confounding effects of cigarette smoking . |
| 17 | The head and individual staff members meeting for about an hour to discuss the staff member 's responsibilities and the way that the school has progressed over the year ; particular stress being placed on the successes of the staff member and in finding areas of development and growth . |
| 18 | The narrow gauge line 's diesel locomotive and two former man-rider carriages have been operating for almost a year at a small extra charge to visitors . |
| 19 | WRECS , which has been operating for almost a decade , now boasts a membership of more than 40 who attended the evening of festive fun at the Pavilion Club , Barlaston , complete with refreshments and cabaret . |
| 20 | Balleny 's voyage was a commercial failure , the sealskins he unloaded paying for only a fraction of the expedition . |
| 21 | Keep going for just a little longer and then I will have someone else take over . ’ |
| 22 | Three paintings fetched three times their expected price , going for over a hundred thousand pounds . |
| 23 | The fuel would have been sufficient to keep the boat going for only a couple of hours , he added . |
| 24 | ‘ But I think I could keep it going for quite a while . |
| 25 | they were going for about a hundred thousand . |
| 26 | Doubt it cos it was convalescing for quite a while . |
| 27 | First , Mr Delors — who had earlier sent a furious letter to Mr Major , complaining of Britain 's lack of faith over the TV pact — had kept him waiting for over an hour at Heathrow while his flight from Brussels was delayed by fog . |
| 28 | The rest of the queen-dowager 's words were drowned by the prince 's whoops of joy — and the cardinal , kept waiting for over an hour , hearing the hullabaloo , exchanged relieved glances with his fellows . |
| 29 | I had kept him waiting for over an hour , though he was n't too annoyed as he had been able to retrieve three brand new titanium ice screws and a rope , left , we presumed , after an incident the night before when we had a helicopter hovering above the face . |
| 30 | They were kept waiting for just a couple of minutes — ‘ While Mr Magill completes a call ’ in a cool-warm windowless reception area soundproofed so that even the loudest complaint about a bill would come out as a hushed croak then ushered through into an office that was almost straight from Charles Dickens . |