Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [v-ing] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then , I had managed to film them on their wintering grounds in India , but now I was seeing them for the first time at the other end of the journey . |
| 2 | I was doing them for the wrong reasons — out of curiosity or for the money , rather than because I had a passion for doing them . |
| 3 | I did think I was doing it for the best . |
| 4 | I was doing it for the drive anyway . |
| 5 | She stood up and looked round the room as though she were leaving it for the last time . |
| 6 | She glanced up at him , feeling oddly shy , almost as though she were meeting him for the first time with no doubts , no mistrust , between them . |
| 7 | The expletive sounded strange to the sergeant on Blanche 's lips , as if she were hearing it for the first time . |
| 8 | She made it sound as if she were saying it for the first time . |
| 9 | She had stayed there , always conscious that she was preparing herself for an existence of unutterable boredom , and was one of an enormous number of women who were training themselves for an ‘ if I do n't marry ’ life . |
| 10 | If you were seeing it for the first time , what impressions would you receive ? |
| 11 | I had no idea she was using me for a purpose of her own : I was too naive to realise until it dawned on me what it was , a few weeks later . |
| 12 | The boyish expression transformed the hard planes of his face and she stared at him as if she was seeing him for the first time . |
| 13 | She had stayed there , always conscious that she was preparing herself for an existence of unutterable boredom , and was one of an enormous number of women who were training themselves for an ‘ if I do n't marry ’ life . |
| 14 | The order was for the production of material relating to the purchase by a client , Mrs G , of certain real property , the allegation being that she was a member of the family of another person who was suspected of being a drug trafficker and who was using her for the purpose of laundering the proceeds of such trafficking . |
| 15 | There was a much-told tale of her Australian infancy that was held to be prophetic in this respect — about how at the age of three she had , by the sheer force of her will , compelled her uncle Walter ( who was taking her for a walk to the local shops at the time ) to put all the money he had on his person into a charity collecting-box in the shape of a plaster-of-Paris boy cripple ; as a result of which the uncle , too embarrassed to admit to this folly and borrow from his relatives , had run out of petrol on the way back to his sheep station . |
| 16 | That way , he would be left alone without worrying why no one was asking him for an autograph . |
| 17 | That being so , it is also likely that they were building it for the same military purpose . |
| 18 | Though he was more like his old self , many suspected they were seeing him for the last time . |
| 19 | And the fact that they were doing it for a great deal more money , like Havvie Blaine , rather than for supper and a few pence , did n't make it any better . |
| 20 | Before leaving he stood for a moment at the door and let his eyes range round the room as if he were seeing it for the first time . |
| 21 | He gave her a long , slow look as if he was seeing her for the first time . |
| 22 | He said that he believed he had lawful authority to ride the bike because he was repairing it for a friend . |
| 23 | She was left thinking how hard he was driving himself for the sake of his adoptive family . |
| 24 | He had no time for the cant of the priests about sin , but he knew , as he lay in the barracks hearing the grunts and panting of his companions , that he was honing himself for a superior form by refusing his body . |
| 25 | Meanwhile Dave had gone to pick up the boss from Stuttgart Airport as he was joining us for the weekend . |
| 26 | He was preparing himself for a British Council tour of France but it was cancelled at the last moment ; he did , however , fly to Amsterdam and then on to Rome in December under the auspices of the same organization . |
| 27 | He was raising it for a second hit when Nancy rushed forward and , seizing the piece of wood , threw it into the fire . |