Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [v-ing] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Medau MArdle ( Norfolkese for ‘ gossip ’ ) is the title of a Medau newsheet launched last year for Norfolk members , edited by Janet Burns — so successful that readers were calling for a second edition a bare three weeks later . |
| 2 | His eyes were unreadable but a small pulse at the edge of his lips was preparing for a dismissive smile . |
| 3 | ‘ At the time , young Steven was working for the Inland Revenue near Strangeways Prison . |
| 4 | Today the Gloucestershire Echo was preparing for the worst . |
| 5 | Corbett was looking for a suitable place as the crowd began to disperse when Benstede returned , accompanied by a thin , stooping figure with watery eyes , a drinker 's red nose and a wispy beard . |
| 6 | The horse was racing for the first time for Epsom trainer Roger Ingram having previously run in Ireland for Joanna Morgan . |
| 7 | those seeking work were looking for the same kinds of jobs as those that had found it ; |
| 8 | I got another breakthrough , my typing teacher told me that the London County Council were advertising for a Medical superintendent 's Clerk at the Western Fever Hospital in Fulham SW6 . |
| 9 | Our judges were looking for a healthy shine , superb condition and fabulous movement and after much deliberation , Louisa Nicholson was chosen as overall winner . |
| 10 | Heath was calling for a decisive mandate to put the unions in their place , but the most striking feature of the results is that they offered no party any decisive mandate whatever . |
| 11 | If my understanding is correct , the boy was looking for a missing goat on the edge of the thicket when he was charged by a cow elephant and killed . |
| 12 | Having coached Waikato in the New Zealand provincial championship for some years , Ross was looking for a new challenge and the opportunity to come to Northampton came at exactly the right moment . |
| 13 | As against the classical , the serenely beautiful , Nietzsche was opting for the archaic . |
| 14 | At yet other times he would say ‘ No ’ just as the child was reaching for the attractive toy . |
| 15 | While these arrangements were being formulated , the developer was looking for a suitable building . |
| 16 | Frank was working for a large nursery and wanted to get into management when his eyesight started to fail . |
| 17 | The Hospitality Inn was looking for a worthy home for unwanted furniture and bedding after refurbishment . |
| 18 | Ronnie Barker was hoping for a peaceful life when he retired six years ago . |
| 19 | There was pressure from the Liberal Democrat leader , Paddy Ashdown , for Mr Smith to declare firmly which way the Labour Party would be voting when the bill came up for its third reading , which many of the rebels were targeting for a full-scale revolt . |
| 20 | But he certainly was n't the man to have in the driving seat on the union side when both management and workers were striving for the sheer survival of the company , and needed to work together if they were to pull through . |
| 21 | If the crowd in Woodford Square on that June evening were looking for an anti- imperialist martyr , that is what they got . |
| 22 | The result of these various pressures was that , when they were taken over , some 150 undertakings were heading for an aggregate deficit of £7 millions ( more than 3 per cent of total BEA revenue ) over the year . |
| 23 | The Turkish authorities estimated that their charge to Iraq would be US$264,000,000 ; the UN was arguing for a lower figure . |
| 24 | Lester was producing for the first time , after his experience with A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Forum . |
| 25 | For reasons which are none to clear there had been little , if any , pressure on Aldus from the existing users to form such a group and it was felt that a need was emerging for a secondary level of support for the program . |
| 26 | Saxton was talking for the first time since being sent home from Barcelona for taking the drug Clenbuterol . |
| 27 | Yeah but what I 'm saying is erm the orange disk was flashing for a long while before the buzzer |
| 28 | Down the dirt-filled alleyways business was thriving for the red-wigged whores and their constant stream of clients from the Tower garrison . |
| 29 | The allegations broke on Tuesday as Jackson was preparing for the first of two concerts in Bangkok , the first stop in the Asian swing of his Dangerous world tour . |
| 30 | McKenzie was fighting for the first time since losing his IBF title to Ulster 's Dave McAuley . |