Example sentences of "[noun] was [v-ing] [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morrison , whose girlfriend was travelling out for the Hong Kong tournament , reckoned that he sustained the injury when he turned quickly during Scotland 's opening tie against Australian Capital Territory in Canberra last week . |
| 2 | She glared at him , but Luke appeared unconcerned as he turned the car into the car park , stopping next to where her car was waiting forlornly for the garage to collect it . |
| 3 | Another man in another village was setting off for the fields , his hoe over his shoulder . |
| 4 | The boy was making straight for the stone , holding his stick up and making little darting glances all round him . |
| 5 | Other bits stayed where they were , making her look like something Special Effects was trying out for the next Dr Who series . |
| 6 | Simon was reaching out for the drum . |
| 7 | The war was going well for the galactic empire . |
| 8 | Even while the war was going badly for the English , they suffered fewer major military defeats , and fewer English nobles had to pay ransoms than received payments from their French equivalents . |
| 9 | Stuart Barnes , the match captain , said : ‘ This team was playing together for the first time . |
| 10 | As I left the next shift was settling in for the day , writing up diaries , reading novels and brewing up endless cups of tea . |
| 11 | The ball was flying straight for the middle bunker . |
| 12 | At about the same time as Jayne and Dave were tying the knot , creative director Nadia Marks was limbering up for the 20th anniversary of her wedding to writer husband Graham , whom she met at art school . |
| 13 | Nobody suggested that the Parliament at Westminster did not have the authority to pass such legislation , perhaps out of a feeling that Britain was paying enough for the defence of America to be entitled to impose a unified industrial policy , possibly more out of a feeling that it would be hard to enforce . |
| 14 | When they arrived back at the Incident Room the little printer was locking up for the night . |
| 15 | It was while Cecilia was running upstairs for the third time to tell Tina she must get up , she really must or she would be late for school , that she heard the Cambridge School bell utter a single toll . |
| 16 | Around me the camp was settling down for the night , bricks securing groundsheets , tent flaps tied tight , kerosene lamps hissing away their shadows . |
| 17 | Andy Norman , who 's a sort of Sam Goldwyn of our athletics , spotted this key to his character years ago during a wait at Helsinki airport where Christie was hanging around for the last plane on a ticket about one grade up from cargo . |
| 18 | Harvey was staying there for the weekend . |
| 19 | The second trial was going well for the Masons when it , too , was stopped after 11 weeks . |