Example sentences of "[pron] was [v-ing] [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been asked to teach a course of lectures at the Teachers ’ College , which is the only place in NZ to run a speech therapy course ( run jointly with the university ) ; so I was staying on for an extra 4 weeks , while the others ( except Ned , who was also staying in Christchurch with his job ) headed for Auckland to fly home . |
| 2 | I was tired , Thérèse said : so I was lying down for a bit . |
| 3 | At the time , Belinda had merely thought she was resting up for the party . |
| 4 | She 'd told her husband she was going out for a walk with their pet dog , Kirsty , when she was found the dog was still clinging to her . |
| 5 | ‘ How about Communists in government ? ’ suggested a friend to Senator Joe McCarthy from Wisconsin , who was looking round for an issue to help get him re-elected . |
| 6 | At dusk , passing through the countryside , everything was slowing down for the night . |
| 7 | Twenty-four hours after training , there was getting on for a sixty-per-cent increase in the numbers of spines to be found on the dendrites in the left IMHV ( but almost no effect in the right ) . |
| 8 | I followed him out of the City until I was convinced he was packing up for the day . |
| 9 | Up for re-election in 1952 , he was looking around for a cause that would be electorally popular , and found it in anti-communism . |
| 10 | At the door which led back on to the landing he was looking around for a prop or a wedge to pin it open when he thought of the parcel that he 'd been hugging since the zoo . |
| 11 | The Shah said that he was staying on for a while , not flying immediately either to the States back to Egypt . |
| 12 | They had fetched him for Christmas and he was staying on for the New Year . |
| 13 | He was closing in for the kill . |
| 14 | Afraid she might doze off if she gave in to temptation and lay down on the bed , she sat down instead on the room 's only chair , and picked up a book , absorbing not a single word as she waited for the sounds that would mean he was turning in for the night . |
| 15 | Thinking how quiet she 'd gone when he said he was coming up for the funeral and how she 'd seemed to withdraw into herself . |
| 16 | He then called his father , now living in retirement at Lake Martin , and got the name of a former Libyan engineering colleague , whom Coleman immediately telexed , saying he was coming out for a visit . |
| 17 | And he was moving in my direction , although I did n't know he was coming in for a photograph . |
| 18 | Actually , before he moved away , he , he gave up his designing job and he was working in for a bit . |
| 19 | He went back into the flat , grabbed his coat , told an astonished Frau Nordern that he was going out for a moment and , without waiting for any protests , dashed out and joined Bodo at the foot of the stairs . |
| 20 | During the previous weeks there had been fine weather , and after a day in the office Paul would keep his mother company in the evenings for a little while , then , as they had nothing to say to one another , he would tell her he was going out for a breath of air . |
| 21 | He said he was going in for the Spot the Talent competition at the Easter Fete . |
| 22 | Between Czecho and Hungary , he decided he was going off for a couple of days . |