Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] was [v-ing] 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 vaguely remembered reminding mum last night that I was looking for the rest of Uncle Rory 's papers . |
| 3 | I remember excusing this by saying that I was waiting for the police and that nothing should be touched until they had come . |
| 4 | You would think that I was asking for the earth to be changed but I 'm not really . |
| 5 | When he asked her why , she shyly confessed that she was pining for the snows of her native land . |
| 6 | Having signed on and said that she was looking for a job as a research scientist , she was advised that she should think again . |
| 7 | Later in the morning we were able to confirm that she was heading for a port in Southern Ireland . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And , oh I did n't tell you this either that she was going for a promotion ! |
| 10 | I was playing jackstones in the street when Nelly Mitchell ran up with the news that she was going for the midwife . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Your landlady said you was n't married , that you was waiting for a while . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She smiled at him , aware that he was angling for an invitation . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He may well have believed that the factionalization inherent in Woodville control of the heir posed such a threat to political stability that his own rule was preferable — he may have persuaded himself , in fact , that he was acting for the good of the realm . |
| 22 | He may well have believed that the factionalization inherent in Woodville control of the heir posed such a threat to political stability that his own rule was preferable — he may have persuaded himself , in fact , that he was acting for the good of the realm . |
| 23 | He issued a series of varied and confusing demands , ranging from reaffirmations of his patriotism to claims that he was fighting for an " authentic democracy " . |
| 24 | ‘ All he told me was that he was working for the Sovbloc desk at Six , and they were looking for a deserter , but he did n't even have Blagg 's name . |
| 25 | that 's right because they 've just released papers after thirty years of work that he was doing for the M O D he was actually doing it in his role as a member of the P R flight , Beaver Brooke sold the government this idea |
| 26 | He called the tower , told them he had an emergency and that he was returning for a landing . |
| 27 | During his visit Kerrey made it known that he was campaigning for the lifting of the US economic embargo against the SOC and for increased investment and aid by US non-governmental organizations . |
| 28 | I assumed at the time that he was crying for the garden and what he 'd done to it . |