Example sentences of "[pron] was [v-ing] [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't tell no lie , I was goin' to ask 'im for the loan of a bob so 's I could get to see this bloke that might be puttin' a bit of business in me way . |
| 2 | ‘ I was phoning to thank you for getting me out of police headquarters . ’ |
| 3 | When I was pregnant , and we did not have this constantly changing situation of togetherness and separation , my husband complained that I had not noticed him kissing me goodbye in the morning — I was starting to take him for granted after only a few months without going to the mikva ! |
| 4 | I was going to ask him for money , there 's a business I could buy my way into , an honest one this time , I 've checked it out . |
| 5 | I was going to say something for John . |
| 6 | Mr Editor Gilbert , on learning that I was going to fly one for Pilot , opined that it was a ‘ bloody awful aeroplane ’ . |
| 7 | She was going to ask me for money , I thought . |
| 8 | A sudden wave of panic swept over her and she glanced at the others but it did n't seem as if she was going to learn anything for the moment . |
| 9 | No-one could have known that she was going to bring them for the weekend . ’ |
| 10 | He found a tutor in London who was going to coach me for University Entrance . |
| 11 | Just as well she had such guts really , because no one was going to love her for her feminine self . |
| 12 | Er , what we are interested in is what the estimators have thought we 're going to do for labour and what the estimators thought we were going to , it was going to cost us for plant . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh Simon ! ’ he said , looking at my face as if he was trying to memorize it for some exam . |
| 14 | But Rochester did er did er , when he was trying to rebuke himself for committing what was bigamy , and the works , he said , when he compared his own wife , who was really a mental animal because she very bestial the way she bit people , and then , he compared her with this sweet , dewy-eyed Jane , he did give a reason did n't he ? |
| 15 | ‘ The salesman was there four hours , he knew what he was doing , what the job involved and how much he was offering to do it for . ’ |
| 16 | Now , he was having to unveil himself for nothing more than curious inspection . |
| 17 | He was going to lose her for good and was powerless to stop the inexorable wheel of Fortune from taking her from him . |
| 18 | Perhaps he was going to touch me for the air fare home . |
| 19 | Once when a policeman announced he was going to arrest him for being drunk and disorderly , Minton pointed to his helmet and expostulated , ‘ What ! |