Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He shut his eyes upon a rush of tears , and painfully contained them , but the springs of fondness in the middle of his being were weeping inconsolably for the stilling of the quick hands and the creative mind . |
| 2 | In LONDON dealers were gearing up for a rush of prospective buyers . |
| 3 | These poor chaps were searching desperately for a project which would not be cursed with the ephemeral vulgarity of their usual tasks . |
| 4 | Two friends from the paras — one an ex-member of the Irish Rangers , the other a deserter from the French Foreign Legion — were saving up for a trip to South Africa where they intended to join the South African Army . |
| 5 | They were heading straight for the belt of shrubbery where he and Larsen had taken cover , and which Larsen had just vacated . |
| 6 | So that 's when I was eating my dinner , when they were going up for the cup and she fell asleep , well you know with the wine in you , here was my eyes all out for the count . |
| 7 | Oh , must be Friday then , I knew they were going away for the week , weekend |
| 8 | Who were going in for the exam and I were n't allowed to help them . |
| 9 | They were going out for a west end meal in the evening . |
| 10 | Her son and daughter who cared for her were going abroad for a fortnight 's holiday . |
| 11 | In homes across the States millions of Americans were switching on for an evening 's viewing . |
| 12 | I says I 've already told you about it , she says yeah I know she says but you 're going for some petrol tonight , I just wondered if you were coming up for an hour tonight . |
| 13 | She and Hattie said they were coming around for a cup of tea . |
| 14 | so it meant that for some time before contingency fund development was introduced you must of had some concerns er about the accuracy of the figures you were putting forward for the publication , can , can I explain that a little more ? if after a few years a major repair needs to be carried out there was no contingency fund , it might mean sticking another two or three hundred pounds a year on the service charges , might it not , to cover a major repair |
| 15 | I think that year we were making up for the limitations of the one before . |
| 16 | The taxi driver who left us at the station , enchanted by the idea that we were setting off for the source of the Nile , refused to accept any fare . |
| 17 | Others , their duties finished , were settling down for the night on their pallets in front of the fires . |
| 18 | Following from this the aim was that the project should collaborate with existing service-providers in order to ensure that there was no overlap or competition with others but that all were working together for the good of the client ; and that the project would , where necessary , coordinate the services available to each client and thus ensure an appropriate and suitably balanced package of care for that person . |
| 19 | At the time , Belinda had merely thought she was resting up for the party . |
| 20 | By now , it was raining enough for the covers to go on over at Wimbledon . |
| 21 | In his final statements in the Venezuelan capital Caracas , his last stop , Bush repeated the central message of the tour , that a " new age " was opening up for the Americas . |
| 22 | ONE WAR WAS WINDing down for a while , not ending , because they never end . |
| 23 | Up for re-election in 1952 , he was looking around for a cause that would be electorally popular , and found it in anti-communism . |
| 24 | At the door which led back on to the landing he was looking around for a prop or a wedge to pin it open when he thought of the parcel that he 'd been hugging since the zoo . |
| 25 | ‘ How about Communists in government ? ’ suggested a friend to Senator Joe McCarthy from Wisconsin , who was looking round for an issue to help get him re-elected . |
| 26 | He said that the PLO was pushing hard for a role for Arafat in Monday 's ceremony and that President Clinton believed that it was up to the PLO to choose its delegation . |
| 27 | With IBM Corp 's stock in the cellar and as hopes dim it will ever again return as the flagship of the US stock market , The New York Times last Sunday 20th was searching around for a successor and came up with — you guessed it — Microsoft Corp . |
| 28 | The woman said she had , and in the filing cabinet behind , but that she was searching specifically for a pair of scissors . |
| 29 | Nobody suggested that the Parliament at Westminster did not have the authority to pass such legislation , perhaps out of a feeling that Britain was paying enough for the defence of America to be entitled to impose a unified industrial policy , possibly more out of a feeling that it would be hard to enforce . |
| 30 | I was tired , Thérèse said : so I was lying down for a bit . |