Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] was [v-ing] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was back to visit it because Ben Tee , via the falls , was one of a series of outings I was proposing for a book of Lochaber walks , and despite all my nosing about I was not prepared to describe things without another visit . |
| 2 | ‘ When I decided to take the part I was looking for a role that was the opposite of my character Dylan . |
| 3 | When I went to Highlander I was looking for a way which could help towards more effective participation and the development of better non-formal opportunities in adult education on social issues which affect communities in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland . |
| 4 | It was gratifying to me that he approved the political and economic articles I was writing for the New English Weekly . |
| 5 | North Tyneside Council said the riot-torn Meadow Well estate was among areas it was considering for the cash . |
| 6 | And the stone seats beside the fire would be replaced with benches , once Cameron brought the rest of the spare timber he had promised from the linen mill he was building for the Flemyngs at Aberfeldy . |
| 7 | It was another uneasy week , and by Friday afternoon she was longing for the end of the shift so she could go home and wallow in misery . |
| 8 | The thieves cut her telephone wires and took the money she was saving for a cooker . |
| 9 | She had announced that she would stay in Paris until October , but by October she was looking for a new place to rent , now deeply involved with Modi and unable to leave . |
| 10 | She studied it carefully as though it were some unfamiliar object she was seeing for the first time . |
| 11 | Six years later , in 1868 , he needed the poems to complete a volume he was preparing for the printer . |
| 12 | Then , on sharp , swift strides he was heading for the door , while Shiona continued to stand where she was , rock still , as though rooted to the floor . |
| 13 | The time I was looking for a house , he says it was n't enough to get into Sandy Row . |
| 14 | At that time I was working for the LNER on the Tyneside electrified lines , and had had a gentle hint from my then boss that he would like to know what Mr Rostron was up to . |
| 15 | ‘ On my first day in corporate finance I was translating for a Japanese MD who was hoping to buy a British company . ’ |
| 16 | Having played so well for the first two rounds and then the first three holes of the third , by which time he was tieing for the lead with Parry at 10 under par , Woosnam came to grief immediately after the Saturday storm . |
| 17 | And so , unable either to believe in the significance of what he was doing or to regard it with indifference as an empty formality , all the time he was preparing for the sacrament he was conscious of a feeling of discomfort and shame in taking part in something he did not understand , which was therefore , an inner voice told him , deceitful and wrong of him . |
| 18 | But in fact he was waiting for a different kind of photograph , a different kind of confirmation . |
| 19 | In fact he was waiting for the place , its calm and its unconcern , to make him feel better . |