Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [v-ing] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At the time , young Steven was working for the Inland Revenue near Strangeways Prison . |
| 2 | Today the Gloucestershire Echo was preparing for the worst . |
| 3 | The horse was racing for the first time for Epsom trainer Roger Ingram having previously run in Ireland for Joanna Morgan . |
| 4 | those seeking work were looking for the same kinds of jobs as those that had found it ; |
| 5 | As against the classical , the serenely beautiful , Nietzsche was opting for the archaic . |
| 6 | At yet other times he would say ‘ No ’ just as the child was reaching for the attractive toy . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Lester was producing for the first time , after his experience with A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Forum . |
| 9 | Saxton was talking for the first time since being sent home from Barcelona for taking the drug Clenbuterol . |
| 10 | Down the dirt-filled alleyways business was thriving for the red-wigged whores and their constant stream of clients from the Tower garrison . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | McKenzie was fighting for the first time since losing his IBF title to Ulster 's Dave McAuley . |
| 13 | As they rode out of the low narrow gate , their knees banging , their heads ducked , the other monks were mustering for the Holy Office of Vespers . |
| 14 | It is hardly surprising that health authorities and hospital managers were calling for the immediate introduction of capitation funding for fundholders as a means of stemming losses from their budgets . |
| 15 | ‘ Orders were orders ! ’ he roared , looking darkly at the friar , before going on to regale both him and the horses with an account of the meal his poor wife was preparing for the coming Sunday . |
| 16 | Reginald Bray , a friend of Masterman 's , would remark on the same development : As Bray organised the arguments of Iris powerful Christian treatise on The Town Child ( 1907 ) around deep shades of pastoral contrast between the serenity of natural phenomena and what he regarded as the unnatural and shallow inconsistency of the irreverent city , he thought that ‘ the most remarkable effect of an urban environment is to be sought in the disappearance of the habit of self-control ’ : The riotous jingo crowds which had accompanied the Ladysmith and Mafeking celebrations during the Boer War had indeed provided one of the most visible manifestations of these perceived alterations among the British people , and observing that ‘ to ‘ Maffick ’ ’ is not really congenial to the British character' The Times ( 30 October 1900 ) had mused upon whether ‘ our national character was changing for the worse ’ . |
| 17 | More than 500,000 people were voting for the first time . |
| 18 | However I managed to find Mr Jaggers ' office , noticing that other people were waiting for the great man too . |
| 19 | It is , therefore , with a sense of mounting horror that one listens to Acheson sounding the knell of US policy in China in the letter which accompanied what is usually known as the China White paper , oblivious to the possibility that the bell was tolling for the same policy that was being reborn in Vietnam . |
| 20 | Trouble , it seemed , was still in bed ; trouble was recuperating for the next engagement . |
| 21 | DAVID Mellor was heading for the political scrapheap last night after Downing Street revealed that he did NOT seek permission for his ‘ freebie ’ holiday with Mona Bauwens . |
| 22 | When a number of us here did a study of the 1984 Chesterfield by-election , where Tony Benn was standing for the first time , and asked constituents themselves what they felt about the broadcast coverage , they repeatedly used the word ‘ bias ’ to describe it . |
| 23 | Jay was waiting for the soul-inspired Adagio . |
| 24 | Remember this — most of the players were regular first team players , so , exxcluding the very first transfers , all the players were playing for the 2nd Div champions , or a top 4 team in the country . |
| 25 | Tom Watson from the US was bidding for the joint record-sixth British Open victory that would make him immortal alongside Harry Vardon . |
| 26 | This is proving a vintage year for Cumbrian trainer , Gordon Richards , whose Clever Folly was winning for the fourth time . |
| 27 | Two Kirkwall solicitors were acting for the four families . |
| 28 | Moreover he knew that Harwell were looking for the crucial neutron spectrum which , surely , would clinch everything . |
| 29 | just under one in five CASE students in employment were working for the employing organisation associated with their CASE award ; |
| 30 | Fakrid 's heavy eyelids were closing for the last time . |