Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though he was more like his old self , many suspected they were seeing him for the last time . |
| 2 | Before leaving he stood for a moment at the door and let his eyes range round the room as if he were seeing it for the first time . |
| 3 | If you were seeing it for the first time , what impressions would you receive ? |
| 4 | That being so , it is also likely that they were building it for the same military purpose . |
| 5 | At the Taj , Indian families were grouping themselves for the professional photographers who swarmed over the central platform . |
| 6 | She glanced up at him , feeling oddly shy , almost as though she were meeting him for the first time with no doubts , no mistrust , between them . |
| 7 | She made it sound as if she were saying it for the first time . |
| 8 | And the fact that they were doing it for a great deal more money , like Havvie Blaine , rather than for supper and a few pence , did n't make it any better . |
| 9 | At the start of the year , several firms were steeling themselves for the tough , face-losing decision to pull out of some markets — or out of the securities business altogether . |
| 10 | The expletive sounded strange to the sergeant on Blanche 's lips , as if she were hearing it for the first time . |
| 11 | At the top of the stairs , somewhere beyond a short , misty journey , Jeopardy led Lucien into a room where a handful of musicians were preparing themselves for the coming performance . |
| 12 | She stood up and looked round the room as though she were leaving it for the last time . |
| 13 | The boyish expression transformed the hard planes of his face and she stared at him as if she was seeing him for the first time . |
| 14 | Since then , I had managed to film them on their wintering grounds in India , but now I was seeing them for the first time at the other end of the journey . |
| 15 | He gave her a long , slow look as if he was seeing her for the first time . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , the Chancellor was bracing himself for a furious political storm when he unveils his autumn package on Thursday , including a mystery ‘ fiscal package ’ ministers are remaining tight-lipped about . |
| 17 | In April 1989 a " law on individual rights " was approved which for the first time explicitly recognized the 1948 UN Declaration of Human Rights . |
| 18 | He had no time for the cant of the priests about sin , but he knew , as he lay in the barracks hearing the grunts and panting of his companions , that he was honing himself for a superior form by refusing his body . |
| 19 | She was to keep it for the next three and a half years . |
| 20 | I was doing them for the wrong reasons — out of curiosity or for the money , rather than because I had a passion for doing them . |
| 21 | I did think I was doing it for the best . |
| 22 | He was preparing himself for a British Council tour of France but it was cancelled at the last moment ; he did , however , fly to Amsterdam and then on to Rome in December under the auspices of the same organization . |
| 23 | Flavia Sherman had elected to spend the day shopping on the Rue Catinat and was to join them for the first hunt next morning . |
| 24 | Samuel Pipkin was tensing himself for the coming life and death struggle this evening , when the vital decision would be made by the Prince of Wales , and Mr Thackeray would be avenged . |