Example sentences of "[be] [Wh det] i was [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh that 's what I was aiming for actually . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps that 's what I was apologizing for . ’ |
| 3 | No , I would n't say I did , and I would n't say that 's what I was looking for , particularly , because again I mean it 's a much abused notion that perhaps that class disappears in postwar Britain , I think that 's a political issue that was an attempt to make it look as if class was disappearing , class differences rather , but I think there is a lot of evening out , there 's not the stark differences of the quality of life of furnishings that you would have found say in homes before the war . |
| 4 | Well that 's what I was waiting for were n't it ? |
| 5 | ‘ This is what I was looking for , ’ he said , and opened it . |
| 6 | Absolute total recall — it was Portia 's famous ‘ The quality of mercy is not strained ’ from The Merchant of Venice — and mercy was what I was asking for , literally , at that moment . |