Example sentences of "[be] [Wh adv] [pron] [was/were] [v-ing] for " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Which is why he was looking for you — although how on earth he expected to persuade you to pay up the difference I do n't know ! ’
2 Fabia arose on Sunday morning , thought of Cara , of Barney , and of the man she had never yet met but , with guilty conscience , hoped to , and then attempted to shed her anxieties by remembering that , with Františkovy Láznë being less than twenty-five miles away , Františkovy Láznë was where she was heading for that day .
3 It was when they were assembling for dinner that they had noticed her absence .
4 ‘ My only real previous acting experience was when I was working for Walt Disney Productions and had to visit sick children in hospital dressed up in a Pluto costume .
5 It was when I was working for Walt Disney , so it 'll be two years ago .
6 Oh yes , it was , is it that , that was why we were looking for them to pick them out ?
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