Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [v-ing] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the one occasion when they did , in the run-up to the 1935 Election , it was — as we shall see — the peace movement that was agitating for a policy of resistance to aggression , and the Government that was forced by public opinion to suspend its deeply unpopular policy of appeasement — until the Election was safely out of the way . |
| 2 | The Defa studios in the East Berlin suburb of Badelsburg are no longer the crumbling , work-shy , institutionalized dump they were two years ago when we began this project and were looking for a home for it . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , Microsoft ( who , incidentally , were then engaged in legal battle with Apple ) had bought a PostScript clone vendor , Bauer Technologies , and were looking for a font technology for OS/2 's Presentation Manager . |
| 4 | It was that sort of occasion 500 women , many of them wearing posh hats and even posher outfits that they 'd bought for weddings and were longing for a chance to wear again . |
| 5 | Supporters of both sides could enjoy such matches and the crowd two years later back up in Scotland was enormous and was hoping for a repeat of the excitement . |
| 6 | She had innate sense of good movement and was searching for a system embodying those principles which fulfilled her concept of the art of movement and teaching its technique . |
| 7 | He was born to be King and was looking for a princess . |
| 8 | I currently had a Cavalier SRi and was looking for a GSi . |
| 9 | He had just been de-mobbed from the Army , intended to go up to Oxford to work for his Doctorate in the autumn , and was looking for a house for his mother who had recently been divorced . |
| 10 | Zelah had taken out one tray of dishes and was returning for a second . |
| 11 | from north of the border Joe Jordan could be in the running … he 's at Celtic at the moment but was looking for a chance to return to English football … |
| 12 | from north of the border Joe Jordan could be in the running … he 's at Celtic at the moment but was looking for a chance to return to English football … |