Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] for [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Again in the 45–60 age group , noticeably higher proportions of unmarried women were caring for someone in the same household , were the main carers of their disabled relatives and friends , and were caring for over twenty hours a week than were either their married or male counterparts ( Green , 1988 , pp. 9–10 ) . |
2 | Actual guides were waiting for them on the Scots side , from the Graham tower , producing a grim smile from Douglas , for one of his principal headaches as Keeper of Liddesdale was apt to be the inroads and cross-border raiding of these same Grahams , Kirkandrews prominent . |
3 | Various local councillors and moral guardians were waiting for them at the venue , having read local press reports that the Fabs ' travelling show included a rather racy striptease revue . |
4 | Oliver and Tim were waiting for them at the gangway . |
5 | They were waiting for them inside the restaurant , which turned out to be a smallish place that somehow managed to achieve an atmosphere of casualness and intimacy at the same time . |
6 | He had left and walked back to the hotel , and by the time he reached it the police were waiting for him in the lobby . |
7 | Ranulf and Dame Agatha were waiting for him near the Galilee Gate , the young nun apparently enjoying an account of one of his manservant 's many escapades in London . |
8 | It was partly because he got a weird buzz out of scaring himself half to death , and partly because he felt it was a kind of exorcism , to convince him he had control over his fears — and the horrors that were waiting for him round the corner of sleep . |
9 | they were waiting for her in the old house : Louise , her mother , her aunt Bella and her grandmother , Irena . |
10 | And all the other farmers were paying the guys who were working for them on the side , ten pound a day , for working from nine o'clock in the morning till about five at night . |
11 | He was looking for something along the lines of Jon Voight in Midnight Cowboy , an American from nowhere , and all the actors coming in were doing an Andrew Dice Clay or Billy Idol number . |
12 | While Famlio was looking for us near the Fraxilly sector , we 'd be elsewhere . |
13 | The fourth matter upon which the appellants rely , and this is a matter of considerable importance , is that they claim to have been misled by the solicitor who was acting for them during the course of 1991 and particularly in respect of these committal proceedings . |
14 | The gardener was waiting for them at the front door . |
15 | For an hour the guests sat patiently listening ; then everybody got up and , with the air of people who have been thinking of little else for some time , demolished the langoor ( free food ) which was waiting for them at the rear of the house . |
16 | To Sophie 's and Helen 's surprise , Ian Woodall , looking anxious and drawn , was waiting for them at the hospital . |
17 | Hurley was waiting for them on the tarmac near the terminal in his big blue BMW 520i . |
18 | I caught up with them about 3.30pm in Jackson Bridge where they were finishing a hymn , and possibly a silent prayer , before they marched back up the steep winding hill to Hepworth where a free tea was waiting for them in the school . |
19 | They went downstairs and the old lady was waiting for them in the hall . |
20 | I think about Mr Jackson and I get a sort of uncomfortable feeling when I remember he was waiting for me at the house and I did n't come back . |
21 | When I got back to the attic , Jean-Claude was waiting for me at the top of the stairs . |
22 | When I went into town to order my new clothes , Mr Pumblechook was waiting for me at the door of his shop . |
23 | This time he was waiting for me at the table . |
24 | Jekyll 's servant had received by the same post a letter similar to mine , and he was waiting for me with the locksmith . |
25 | The hill that was waiting for me across the next two miles of nothingness was typical of those I had climbed that day — no more than a hundred feet high , with a gradual slope . |
26 | The Management was waiting for me in the lounge of his magnificent suite . |
27 | The wench was waiting for me in the street . |
28 | Daak was waiting for her beyond the next upright . |
29 | Jonadab was waiting for her at the stair bottom . |
30 | Uncle Alfred was waiting for her at the entrance to the nest when she arrived . |