Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] was [v-ing] for [art] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ When I decided to take the part I was looking for a role that was the opposite of my character Dylan .
2 When I went to Highlander I was looking for a way which could help towards more effective participation and the development of better non-formal opportunities in adult education on social issues which affect communities in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland .
3 And the stone seats beside the fire would be replaced with benches , once Cameron brought the rest of the spare timber he had promised from the linen mill he was building for the Flemyngs at Aberfeldy .
4 It was another uneasy week , and by Friday afternoon she was longing for the end of the shift so she could go home and wallow in misery .
5 The thieves cut her telephone wires and took the money she was saving for a cooker .
6 She studied it carefully as though it were some unfamiliar object she was seeing for the first time .
7 Six years later , in 1868 , he needed the poems to complete a volume he was preparing for the printer .
8 The time I was looking for a house , he says it was n't enough to get into Sandy Row .
9 At that time I was working for the LNER on the Tyneside electrified lines , and had had a gentle hint from my then boss that he would like to know what Mr Rostron was up to .
10 ‘ On my first day in corporate finance I was translating for a Japanese MD who was hoping to buy a British company . ’
11 Having played so well for the first two rounds and then the first three holes of the third , by which time he was tieing for the lead with Parry at 10 under par , Woosnam came to grief immediately after the Saturday storm .
12 And so , unable either to believe in the significance of what he was doing or to regard it with indifference as an empty formality , all the time he was preparing for the sacrament he was conscious of a feeling of discomfort and shame in taking part in something he did not understand , which was therefore , an inner voice told him , deceitful and wrong of him .
13 But in fact he was waiting for a different kind of photograph , a different kind of confirmation .
14 In fact he was waiting for the place , its calm and its unconcern , to make him feel better .
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