Example sentences of "[that] [pron] was [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only the ferryman on the Oban/Lismore boat knew that I was aiming for the northern ferry to mainland Port Appin . |
| 2 | I make this point after returning from a day 's walking near Ullswater when I was approached by a party of walkers who had followed me for some distance thinking that I was headed for the same destination . |
| 3 | I vaguely remembered reminding mum last night that I was looking for the rest of Uncle Rory 's papers . |
| 4 | I remember excusing this by saying that I was waiting for the police and that nothing should be touched until they had come . |
| 5 | I trusted him to see that I was equipped for the new life I had chosen . |
| 6 | You would think that I was asking for the earth to be changed but I 'm not really . |
| 7 | But one incident that amused me was that I was booked for a coffee commercial and the producer phoned me up the night before the session to let me know the track we were doing , because he said he wanted to get it as close to the original as he possibly could . |
| 8 | Detectives investigating the murder of Glasgow pensioner Agnes Law have revealed that she was killed for the few pounds she had in her house . |
| 9 | She also knew what was good for herself , so she kept for her own use the money that she was given for the children 's food . |
| 10 | The argument that she was employed for the specific purpose of teaching students , and therefore not eligible for dismissal rights , was rejected . |
| 11 | When he asked her why , she shyly confessed that she was pining for the snows of her native land . |
| 12 | Having signed on and said that she was looking for a job as a research scientist , she was advised that she should think again . |
| 13 | Later in the morning we were able to confirm that she was heading for a port in Southern Ireland . |
| 14 | By the way her mother fiddled with the handle of her wicker basket Constance could tell that she was longing for the bus to come and take her to Chollerton where her beauty and style might stand some chance of being noticed . |
| 15 | And , oh I did n't tell you this either that she was going for a promotion ! |
| 16 | I was playing jackstones in the street when Nelly Mitchell ran up with the news that she was going for the midwife . |
| 17 | It dawned on Folly that she was waiting for a tip and , gathering what she could of her wits , she struggled out of bed to delve in her handbag . |
| 18 | Your landlady said you was n't married , that you was waiting for a while . |
| 19 | Probably by saying that he only supplied what custom dictated as appropriate to the social status of the deceased , and that everything was done for the complete satisfaction of his client . |
| 20 | Anti-fascists argued that whoever was to blame for the violence , the police and courts treated them more harshly , and the National Council for Civil Liberties certainly produced reliable testimony to back up those claims . |
| 21 | It became obvious to everyone that the Tournament could not continue and after another undue delay , the Earl of Eglinton announced that it was cancelled for the day . |
| 22 | But that Moorish Negress was so skilful in drawing the Turkish bow , that it was held for a marvel , and it is said that they called her in Arabic Nugueymat Turya , which is to say , the Star of the Archers . |
| 23 | A few years later , that sum was awarded to Robert Maxwell for the false suggestion that he was angling for a peerage , while ten times that amount was lavished on Jeffrey Archer in revenge for the suggestion that he had received a sexual favour from a prostitute he had admitted to paying to leave the country . |
| 24 | She smiled at him , aware that he was angling for an invitation . |
| 25 | God only knew how he had tried to replace her in his thoughts and in his heart — striking relationships with one woman after another , lurching from one crisis to the next , building his business with her in mind … driving himself like a man demented and amassing a fortune , yet knowing all the time that he was striving for the impossible . |
| 26 | When , in 1978 , after four years with the company , Al Clark presented himself in Branson 's office to announce that he was leaving for a job with better pay and more responsibility , Branson 's response was to pull a water pistol from his desk and start firing at him , grinning broadly all the while . |
| 27 | He told me how , at one point in his life , presumably in the 1930s , that he was searching for a new purpose and direction in his life ; one offering greater personal fulfilment . |
| 28 | She could see that he was searching for the right words , the very thing that would describe what he had felt , what he had experienced at that moment . |
| 29 | Working as a pageboy in a club in St James 's in the 1930s , he mentioned to a member that he was looking for a better-paid job . |
| 30 | Hershman says his movie is inspired by Jean-Luc Godard 's Breathless , and that he was looking for the new Jean-Paul Belmondo to play the lead . |