Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [v-ing] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Establishments were obviously catering for a different market in the evening , and it can be assumed that customers were prepared to spend more time and to pay more for a different ‘ meal experience ’ . |
| 2 | We were just looking for a suitable warren to send our ferrets down to flush out the occupants . |
| 3 | But er if they were just working for a single day , it was long day up till ten o'clock at night in a harvest you know . |
| 4 | From school I knew this parable by heart , and I think the reader must have known it too , because as he reached the concluding sentences , his frail hands were already feeling for the embroidered marker and preparing to close the great heavy book , so that his eyes were not on the page but were gazing unseeing into mine as he spoke the final well-worn words , ‘ Then said Jesus unto him , ‘ Go , and do thou likewise . ’ ’ |
| 5 | Erm , then we all just worked at getting pieces out on paper , all that was going fine , and then I assigned two more people to stick all the pieces together and trying to create sentences from it , and I think the only time that I , we lost it was like , right at the end we were like looking for a few words to make our sentences make sense . |
| 6 | THREE lifeboats , three tugs and an RAF Sea King helicopter were yesterday searching for an 18-year-old lifeboatman who fell overboard from a fishing boat . |
| 7 | So we were forever heading for the rocky interior of continents , to regions of crags and barrenness . |
| 8 | Implementation of that policy , in Indo-China however , would depend upon France ; and after two years of war and in spite of some growing and ineffable optimism , the French were still looking for a purposeful Vietnam policy and had revealed not so much procrastination and missed opportunities as a sort of political paralysis . |
| 9 | Carefully he tried again but Cameron took his arm and told him not to hurry unduly , the joists had only been pinned in place and they were still waiting for the long nails from Grandtully . |
| 10 | At the same time as the Convent negotiations were taking place , the Governors were also advertising for a new headmaster , for Mr. Scott had decided to retire at the end of the Easter Term in 1979 . |
| 11 | The opposition were loyally supporting the Government , but were also pressing for a definitive statement . |
| 12 | He added that they were now calling for a fundamental review of taxation and a broadly-based training and employment programme . |
| 13 | PROFESSIONAL hunters called in by police were today searching for a great white shark that killed a scuba diver on his honeymoon . |
| 14 | We were virtually aiming for the impossible : to launch the revamped Friends of John McCarthy complete with campaign logo , notepaper and T-shirts , by our target date of 17 February , in four weeks ' time . |
| 15 | In the Labour League of Youth leading members were actively negotiating for the formal amalgamation of the Young Communist League . |
| 16 | Scarlet , though not reassured by her words , was touched by her gesture until she saw that Camille was merely reaching for the crisp packet and had patted her in passing . |
| 17 | No-one in the England camp was prepared to say whether there was less longing for the next tour of the Caribbean or to Pakistan , where the proposed 1996–97 series seems safely enough into the future . |
| 18 | When she failed to respond the French cutter opened fire with her bow chaser , hitting the superstructure of Sea Rover which by then was obviously making for the English coast . |
| 19 | The driver was obviously preparing for a grand-prix start . |
| 20 | Jamila said nothing and Helen was eager to talk about Charlie , a subject on which she was obviously preparing for an advanced degree . |
| 21 | ‘ I was only aiming for the British record , ’ Wooderson declared in a state of shock which caused him sleepless nights for a week . |
| 22 | They dreamed together their first dream of life : of its glories and its fame , of the life that lay beyond the prison walls of this school and beyond this miserable town , which to despise was their delight , of the life that must open up soon before them , that was only waiting for the two of them in order to receive them and shower them with its infinite gifts ! |
| 23 | ‘ I was desperately waiting for the magic word ‘ Cut ’ so I could attach myself to the wires before falling , ’ he says . |
| 24 | Shelley was already reaching for the suturing packs . |
| 25 | As Kylie 's business empire was already planning for the 1990s — estimates of its overall earnings are now a staggering £4.5 million a month — virtually every music executive in the world was casting an envious eye at what was being acknowledged as one of the best business operations pop had ever seen . |
| 26 | He was just losing for the third time when Celia walked back in , Mitch behind her . |
| 27 | My professional clairvoyant friend , who was once heading for the Christian mission field , said , |
| 28 | I was always looking for a short-term miracle . |
| 29 | ‘ Chapman was essentially a designer , an artist , who was always looking for the next design , something different , ’ says Mr Nearn . |
| 30 | Master John , a natural chimpanzee , was always going for the high one . |