Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So you 're going solo now , ’ said the victim , fumbling for her smokes again . |
| 2 | But she 'd taken an instant liking to you and for years she 'd been agitating for me to settle down . ’ |
| 3 | Police Federation branch chairman George Creighton said : ‘ We are all praying for her to pull through . |
| 4 | Well , er the C B I and other bodies are pressing for them to come down at once , er John Major has said it 's only a question of time . |
| 5 | But then the baby would stir in its sleep and put up one tiny pink hand , perhaps seeking for something to hold on to . |
| 6 | ‘ The way we conceded goals at Coventry was very hard to take and I 'm looking for us to bounce back as quickly as possible . |
| 7 | every year I 'm looking for it to move forward a little bit . |
| 8 | The current NCT representative on the ( wait for it ) West Midlands Regional Health Authority 's Health Promotion Group 's Ante-Natal Care Action Group ( what a mouthful ) is about to retire and is looking for someone to take over . |
| 9 | The incidence found was probably an underestimate of true community incidence as the protocol did not pick up those people in whom , for whatever reason , the clinicians caring for them did not measure the serum electrolyte values . |
| 10 | The bazaar drew nearer and nearer — and what a strange thing , McAllister thought , to be such a central part of her life , and she and Matey worked together now , in that , as in everything else , and Matey 's liking for her grew daily , for the eyes McAllister turned on him were always so full of love , and he was easy and happy with her , as he had not been since he was a boy before Africa and Angela Deverill 's betrayal . |
| 11 | Cos that 's what Margaret stopped paying her paying for them did n't she June ? |
| 12 | The crowd were pulling for me to do well . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ People asked me and Derrick what we were doing over the past two years and the answer that I want to give is that we were waiting for everybody to catch up . |
| 14 | She was staring straight past me , sitting very still , as though waiting for somebody to come out of the house . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's not my intention to stay cooped up in here , waiting for them to go on with their little games . ’ |
| 16 | This can actually produce those distressing occasions when , for example , a husband and wife are sitting there looking at each other , the dying one trying very hard to get on and die because they understand everyone is waiting for them to do so , and the survivor trapped with their feelings of guilt about wishing their relative would die , whilst at the same time not being able to leave the person 's side in case they miss the moment . |
| 17 | Watching the door , Lucy stood waiting for them to emerge again , but their exit appeared to be taking a long time to eventuate . |
| 18 | We were waiting for them to turn up at Hamish and Tone 's but they never showed . |
| 19 | So he hung back for what seemed an interminable length of time , in the shadow of a dripping tree , waiting for them to move on . |
| 20 | We had ten bobbies in five pairs waiting for them coming out . |
| 21 | Cos he 'll eat them , he 'll be stood there waiting for them coming out of the blooming oven ! |
| 22 | In essence , what has stood me in good stead all these years in broadcasting is spotting good people and waiting for them to come forward with what interests them ; what obsessions , what passions they have in translating those into programmes . |
| 23 | Her palms were sweating as she stood in the wings in her best green dress waiting for them to come off so that she could get on . |
| 24 | waiting for them to come in . |
| 25 | And then , when she looked at the high terrace with its pots of trailing geraniums , she could see nothing for the shadow was so intense — not the pale blob of a face or the movement of a hand — but she was suddenly as sure as she could be of anything that someone was standing there , looking down , waiting for them to get out of the car and watching them . |
| 26 | He understood perfectly well , but was waiting for them to make up their minds whether they wanted money or a claim to Asia Minor . |
| 27 | But there was no malice in their interest and I sometimes had the feeling that they were waiting for me to turn round and hand them a bag of toffees , with instructions to share them out fairly and not throw the papers on the floor . |
| 28 | She 'll hang around the Earls Court guest house till then , waiting for me to turn up and whisk her out for a spaghetti . |
| 29 | The work with patients who had the delusion of being watched , and who spoke of the watcher as another person in terms like the following : ‘ He is waiting for me to go now ’ , or ‘ He thinks I should do such and such ’ , had first led Freud to suggest that a part of a person 's ego can keep watch over another part . |
| 30 | I feel that he has been waiting for me to get home so he can demonstrate this talent . |