Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [v-ing] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heath was calling for a decisive mandate to put the unions in their place , but the most striking feature of the results is that they offered no party any decisive mandate whatever . |
| 2 | If my understanding is correct , the boy was looking for a missing goat on the edge of the thicket when he was charged by a cow elephant and killed . |
| 3 | While these arrangements were being formulated , the developer was looking for a suitable building . |
| 4 | The Hospitality Inn was looking for a worthy home for unwanted furniture and bedding after refurbishment . |
| 5 | For reasons which are none to clear there had been little , if any , pressure on Aldus from the existing users to form such a group and it was felt that a need was emerging for a secondary level of support for the program . |
| 6 | Yeah but what I 'm saying is erm the orange disk was flashing for a long while before the buzzer |
| 7 | A substantial part of the Cabinet was pressing for a quick outcome . |
| 8 | Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti on Dec. 1 announced that his four-party coalition government was planning for a general election in March or early April 1992 . |
| 9 | Lucenzo was smiling for a special reason , though she was darned if she knew why . |
| 10 | Mr Paul Bagni , general manager of Dalgety , said : ‘ I am convinced the pilot was aiming for an old airfield behind our plant but came down just short of it . ’ |
| 11 | The nation was waiting for an important announcement on the outcome of the talks . |
| 12 | Staff were advised that the company was looking for a new property when the search for a new suitable area began and when Aldermaston had been identified as the place where the new offices were to be built . |
| 13 | base manager for WGOL who is also vice-chairman of the East Anglian branch of the Institute , commented : ‘ The agreement was reached because Trinity House was looking for a professional body to fill the void and the Institute has a good reputation and a presence in the majority of UK ports ’ . |
| 14 | These were the very classes whose disruption of bourgeois identity was enabling for a vital , oppositional , and radical modernism . |
| 15 | Tilda had at first elaborated her story , saying that her mother was looking for a new Daddy , but her observation , quick as a bird 's flight , showed her that this was going too far , and she added that she and her sister prayed nightly to Our Lady of Fatima for her father 's return . |
| 16 | He had n't had to suffer as much as her — I do n't so much mean that , like fishes , his pain threshold was higher than a human being 's ( although I do n't doubt that was the case ) as that he 'd been aware that his son was missing for a shorter period than his wife . |