Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] [pron] was [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lee missed West 's win at Boroughmuir on Saturday because he was playing for the North under-21s on Sunday , and he scored the injury time try which completed the North 's clean sweep in the Divisional Championship . |
| 2 | The Jessica I 'd known then would have felt more enthusiasm for a Christmas cracker bangle than she was showing for her gold bracelet . |
| 3 | The other view is that where the conduct of the plaintiff would have given rise to the defence at common law if he was suing for negligence , the defence is applicable . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't , I just happened to see that tatty book of horoscopes Myra keeps on her desk while I was waiting for you one day , so I looked it up , ’ Dana said defiantly . |
| 5 | Ruth and Rosie arrived at the pub as it was closing for the afternoon . |
| 6 | Gazza 's pain came after he got to grips with the Jones boy when he was playing for Newcastle against Wimbledon . |
| 7 | And it was n't a shock when I got my first hit record because I was trying for that all our lives and so she backed me all the way . |
| 8 | Miss Tylee 's courtesy was unfailing — she was a neatly dressed lady who wore a velvet neckband and her ‘ pince-nez ’ or pinchers as we called them were attached to a thin gold necklet , ready to be placed at the end of her nose when she was searching for something required by her customers . |
| 9 | She met her husband when he was working for British Steel in Czechoslovakia . |
| 10 | I met the Colonel 's wife while I was waiting for Martinho outside church one sunny afternoon . |
| 11 | Yeah that he just , he asked Gary this morning if he was looking for a job |
| 12 | ‘ I have no rational explanation for this but doubt I would derive that same feeling if I was playing for Japan . |
| 13 | Maybe it 'll lead him to explain that he latched on to lust because something was missing for the moment in your relationship . |
| 14 | ‘ The personnel officer insisted I saw this 41-year-old woman when I was interviewing for a new secretary , ’ says Gina , a 30-year-old manager in a retail company . |
| 15 | Her second child was born during her time at Somerville while she was studying for an M. Phil in Social Anthropology , and she describes ‘ the time when Mrs Indira Gandhi was awarded the Hon. |
| 16 | About 500 people attended the lunch in the hotel ballroom where there was seating for only 400 . |
| 17 | At £12,260 the Aura TD is not particularly cheap but it would certainly be near the top of my shopping list if I was looking for a medium-sized diesel hatchback . |
| 18 | Paul is entitled to notice of the proceedings as he was caring for Jane when the proceedings were commenced . |
| 19 | I wanted to put a a morning on when I realised there was problems here just a morning an open morning which would of brought probably nine hundred thousand pounds into this building , in July I came in to try to see the Director of the playhouse I could n't go through the written way because I was waiting for exam date to come through . |
| 20 | Payne Stewart , not wearing his usual football colours or his regular cap as he was playing for his country , brought emotion to bear on the contest . |
| 21 | I arranged to meet her in the tiny port at Tala-Tala where she was waiting for me . |
| 22 | She felt her knees begin to buckle , but his strength held her to him — taking her fevered body into his embrace , heaping fire on fire until she was crying for him in a voice unlike her own . |
| 23 | Er I remember it so vividly because it , at our house it was quite er an event because mother and father were so Labour and my brother , who erm he , I do n't know why , he 's not alive today and I ca n't so I , and I 've no idea , I do n't think I ever asked him because I 'd be too young , but I do know that the friction was in the house because he was working for the Conservative and she was the first woman that we ever elected er she , this , this lady did . |
| 24 | He thought it might be some time before he was looking for a love-nest again with her . |