Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well if you remember that the Jarrow marches and the general strike were n't very many years erm you know be behind the preparations that were going on for the second world war . |
| 2 | In times past , I had tried to get across to the continent as much as possible , but now , while other people were going abroad for the first time because of all the cheap travel around , I was ( without intending to be anti-social ) doing exactly the opposite and taking a look around the British Isles . |
| 3 | Patients were flocking in for the new treatment . |
| 4 | At about the same time as Jayne and Dave were tying the knot , creative director Nadia Marks was limbering up for the 20th anniversary of her wedding to writer husband Graham , whom she met at art school . |
| 5 | Andy Norman , who 's a sort of Sam Goldwyn of our athletics , spotted this key to his character years ago during a wait at Helsinki airport where Christie was hanging around for the last plane on a ticket about one grade up from cargo . |
| 6 | The war was going well for the galactic empire . |
| 7 | The ball was flying straight for the middle bunker . |
| 8 | They had fetched him for Christmas and he was staying on for the New Year . |
| 9 | It was while Cecilia was running upstairs for the third time to tell Tina she must get up , she really must or she would be late for school , that she heard the Cambridge School bell utter a single toll . |
| 10 | Stuart Barnes , the match captain , said : ‘ This team was playing together for the first time . |
| 11 | Other bits stayed where they were , making her look like something Special Effects was trying out for the next Dr Who series . |