Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [verb] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We need to shift to the procedure that we would probably have and a tell me if I 'm wrong I thought there was a sort of general agreement without it being sort of firmly agreed that we were going to go for a format of subject specific reports still coming to form tutor who would complete some sort of general report , is that |
| 2 | Were we on coke when we said , in the summer , that we were going to go for the sonnet ? ’ |
| 3 | There was a man who spoke a bit of English and he said they were going to send for a doctor , but I told them you suffered from fits and you 'd be all right . ’ |
| 4 | Already early on this Saturday morning he and his pupils were beginning to prepare for the banquet in the Imperial kitchens . |
| 5 | He strode to the reception desk , made a brisk enquiry and then came straight over to where Patrick and Chris were standing waiting for the lift . |
| 6 | The things she was going to need for the baby ! |
| 7 | The vigil in the longhouses was going to last for a day , and perhaps for part of the next night at least . |
| 8 | I was going to ask for a couple of hours off and then he says , oh do n't bother ! |
| 9 | We 'd had dinner and were on our way back to the hotel when I told him I was going to go for a walk before going to bed . |
| 10 | You really think I was going to fall for a line like that and hand Barry over to you ? ’ |
| 11 | If the Formalist definition of its object was going to allow for the specificity of literary studies , the Formalists regarded it as necessarily entailing the exclusion of all mimetic and expressive definitions of literature . |
| 12 | He said he was going to look for a radiator at a scrap yard somewhere passed Akers Way . |
| 13 | And there was a point where I was going to look for a job , drift off and forget about it . |
| 14 | ‘ We were scared the bell was going to ring for the end of classes , ’ says Sylvain Souillon . |
| 15 | And so , if it came to that , would George , whose only worry when the tree toppled was who was going to pay for the damage . |
| 16 | I asked who was going to pay for the call . |
| 17 | He was going to try for a buy-out . |
| 18 | Er I told him I was going to try for the Co-op . |
| 19 | Mr Reynolds said his government was continuing to press for the negotiating between loyalist and nationalist politicians to be renewed as soon as possible . |
| 20 | The game he was playing called for a man who was able to move fast and travel light . |
| 21 | Jilly had passed her A level in English Literature the summer before , having notably failed to acquire any qualifications except a pass in O level Divinity at her expensive school : now she was hoping to qualify for a course at the Open University . |
| 22 | Eating spaghetti , Clare began to suspect that James would rather talk about a relationship than have one ; wolfing boeuf bourguignon , she wondered whether James was flaunting his insecurities in order to attract the maternal feelings he clearly believed nestled within every woman 's breast- and from which Clare was trying to escape for the evening . |
| 23 | He was trying to qualify for the Spring Satellite , but he returned in time to defeat Simon Bramwell ( Herts ) , in the final round . |
| 24 | At the same time British and European importers heard a rumour that the World Wildlife Fund was planning to call for a boycott on the use of tropical timbers . |