Example sentences of "was [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then I was coughing for ages then mum goes oh you , I go oh , I feel terrible ! |
| 2 | She studied it carefully as though it were some unfamiliar object she was seeing for the first time . |
| 3 | When I was finally called one wintry Monday by the neighbours , she looked quite dreadful ; her faced was bruised from several falls the previous night , she was struggling for her breath , her legs and thighs were painful and very swollen . |
| 4 | She thought again of waking him , for he was struggling for breath in his sleep . |
| 5 | She loved Bobbie for his devotion and loyalty to her in the days when she had few friends and was struggling for recognition . |
| 6 | She was surprised to see that he was struggling for words — something he had not done since the day two years before when her brother Thomas had been murdered by the English . |
| 7 | A fly , whose buzzing had been driving me insane , was struggling for life . |
| 8 | Mr Wolski thought of his friend the eagle who was struggling for life through this long night Then he did something he had not done for years , for decades , since before the darkness came to his own life in the Second World War : he said a silent prayer . |
| 9 | It showed that beneath the granite exterior emotion did exist , even if it was struggling for survival . |
| 10 | She was in pain , but she was taking it out on a complicated Fair Isle jumper that she was knitting for some nephew in Canada . |
| 11 | His hair was trailing behind him like a veil and Mike , the bass , observed that he looked as though he was trawling for mackerel ; and as he turned , Colin , the drummer , said : ‘ Bugger me ! |
| 12 | Soon America was clamouring for the dollar to be let in : its burden of debt to oil-rich countries , which since the late 1990s had refused payment in dollars , had become too great . |
| 13 | ‘ Naughty but nice … that 's what this full house was clamouring for … |
| 14 | The press was clamouring for blood and Lord Harris told Robertson that he would have to tender his resignation to the academic advisory council . |
| 15 | On a different plane , it may be noted that just before 1984 's seven-country G7 economic summit in London , Japan was clamouring for access , in the event of a supply disruption , to the US SPR . |
| 16 | ‘ When he told me he was panning for gold , I simply did n't believe it . |
| 17 | Lester was producing for the first time , after his experience with A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Forum . |
| 18 | I did his tape copy on the machine I was using for echo and it was switched to vari-speed , so the copy was played at almost half the speed and when he got it home and wanted to play it to his friends , it sounded rather strange . |
| 19 | Precisely who it was she was using for a role model became clear as a middle-aged lady , admirably slim in well-cut jodhpurs , erupted from some inner fortress to enquire , in tones that carried effortlessly across the yard , precisely why Caroline had failed to run up her stirrups , how long had she been riding ? |
| 20 | I was using for about three years altogether . |
| 21 | It was a chilling thought that the very circumstances she was using for her own purpose accorded only too well with the Empress 's schemes . |
| 22 | You see , you know I was talking to you earlier about , about punchlines basically , but I ca n't remember the words I was using for it , times like by the way , right right , or did you know or did I mention to you do you follow me , a lot of key lines that you can think on that you use |
| 23 | So I did n't make a loss but I did n't make a profit on the bit of space that I need that I was using for storage cos I thought it was only fair to the poor bloke . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Balor was bellowing for help ; he was calling down vengeance on the Trees and promising that Inchbad and the Robemaker and the Master CuRoi would certainly punish the Trees for this . |
| 26 | This layout was a physical expression of the administrative structure that Hammond was organizing for the office particularly , as Mary Anderson points out , the special status awarded to the Under Secretaries and their political departments , by placing them on the same level as the Secretary of State . |
| 27 | Within a year , he was cooking for the Royal Box and state galas . |
| 28 | When Mr Palmer arrived I did n't tell him I was caddying for Gary , and I do n't know whether he 'd forgotten or what , but when Gary says to me , ‘ OK , Tip , let's go , ’ Arnold looks at me and says , ‘ What are you doing , Tip ? ’ |
| 29 | Pete Coleman was caddying for Bernhard , and Pete had caddied for Seve , for a time , so he was thinking it was one-up to them . |
| 30 | While his friends were earning their few pennies for a week 's work as paper-boys and butcher 's assistants , Dave was caddying for a round at Hollinwell , the championship course near his home . |