Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [pron] was [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He recognized the man only because he was looking for him . |
| 2 | ( Although I have twice referred to Milton myself , I did so because I was grasping for images to convey something of the reality of the Devil . |
| 3 | I wondered what he was up to when I spotted him coming back inside while I was looking for you . ’ |
| 4 | So long as I was looking for someone who might want to murder Michael Banks , I was getting nowhere . |
| 5 | And , to complete his heartbreak , his car broke down when he was looking for his ninth win of the season at the Italian Grand Prix . |
| 6 | It kept her going , especially when she was angling for the notice of the one man who , after giving her dinner on the way back from Bovington , had treated her with only a lighthearted pleasant banter whenever they met . |
| 7 | Those issues were raised by the Secretary of State for the Environment , especially when he was running for the leadership of the Conservative party . |
| 8 | It arrived just before he was leaving for the United States ( another example of his self-forgetfulness , as he had not mentioned this to me ) , and he was not due to return until the end of July . |
| 9 | And then , just as I was reaching for my battered copy of Einstein , Jon Snow gave away the secret . |
| 10 | In a fit of temper he shot up past the runner , and just as he was reaching for a ledge above , the turf he was standing on performed its Velcro imitation and propelled the stunned climber into the air . |
| 11 | Just as she was reaching for her jacket the phone rang , and without thinking she answered it . |
| 12 | Once when I was leaving for Europe , he came to see me off at the airport , bringing a parting gift . |
| 13 | It showed that beneath the granite exterior emotion did exist , even if it was struggling for survival . |
| 14 | ‘ I was here when you was collecting for the Foundling Hospital yesterday , and I wondered if a shilling would help . |
| 15 | Two doctors who treated Shaunagh at Gordon Barracks ' Garrison Medical Centre at Hamelyn , failed to diagnose a punctured lung even though she was fighting for breath and in serious pain . |
| 16 | Perhaps she ought not to have spoken so bluntly , even though he was asking for it . |
| 17 | 49 Miss Havisham regrets her ‘ training ’ of Estella and when Pip returns from abroad where he was working for 11 years he finds Estella much changed from her unhappy marriage to the spider . |
| 18 | Hayling had been excluded from becoming a Founder first because of his job policing the project for the GLC grant , and then because he was working for the company . |
| 19 | And occasionally if I was looking for a magazine to buy , it would get a lot of i good information in it too . |