Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was looking for the perfect book and I found it . ’ |
| 2 | Because that 's detail really , er , I was looking for the main parts . |
| 3 | I was intended for the religious life . |
| 4 | Maybe I was hoping for the impossible — that they 'd control their situation once they reached the football stadiums . |
| 5 | Only the ferryman on the Oban/Lismore boat knew that I was aiming for the northern ferry to mainland Port Appin . |
| 6 | It was gratifying to me that he approved the political and economic articles I was writing for the New English Weekly . |
| 7 | I was waiting for the other half when Oliver fled . |
| 8 | I was waiting for the right moment to find out just how deeply your were involved with Elise . |
| 9 | I was waiting for The Headless Horseman Three … |
| 10 | I trusted him to see that I was equipped for the new life I had chosen . |
| 11 | Luck plays a great part in success and as mine would have it , I was chosen for the pre-Christmas show . |
| 12 | I said that unless I was picked for the final leg I would n't run . |
| 13 | Here was silly old me thinking I was working FOR the fantastic IPC . |
| 14 | She was stumbling for the right words . |
| 15 | The argument that she was employed for the specific purpose of teaching students , and therefore not eligible for dismissal rights , was rejected . |
| 16 | There was the proliferative retinopathy episode a few weeks ago , and when she was hospitalised for the threatened toxaemia we found that her blood glucose was actually better controlled at home now than in hospital … |
| 17 | She made her get into bed and said she was sending for the blue ladies right away . |
| 18 | Later she was to think how little she was prepared for the simple events which were to change her life completely — indeed she would have said that so much had happened to her already that any further incidents must be minor , a judgement which could not have been more faulty . |
| 19 | Her family had never doubted she was heading for the top job . |
| 20 | It was kept for the finished film . |
| 21 | It was granted for the following day and a deputation was formed consisting of Dr. Paisley , leader of the DUP ; Rev. William Beattie , deputy leader of the same party ; Cecil Harvey , Vanguard Unionist Assembly member from the Saintfield area ; and the present writer . |
| 22 | It was built for the Parravicini family , a family of noble birth from Brianza and has a fine , if dirty , façade of red brick and elegantly simple windows . |
| 23 | They sold it , together with an earlier Forney model , two years later in October 1971 through the then well-known aircraft brokers W. S. Shackleton of Coventry , whence it was bought for the princely sum of £2,150 by airline captain David Vernon , who has owned it ever since . |
| 24 | There is no record of the history of this manuscript before it was bought for the British Museum in 1836 , but it appears possible that the Jouglet it contains could be one text forming a bridge between the French fabliaux and the Anglo-Norman . |
| 25 | It was used for the German Grand Prix in 1985 but its return as a championship circuit was shortlived and it now plays second string to the Hockenheim . |
| 26 | It was to work for the complete organisation of all ship , dock and river workers in order to raise their wages and improve their working conditions . |
| 27 | The synagogue was administered by a council of ‘ elders ’ who appointed a ‘ ruler ’ whose duty it was to prepare for the daily services and provide some general supervision . |
| 28 | yes it 's Chernobyl , he was looking for the real word there , a nuclear what ? |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The famous Swedish Don Giovanni , John Forsell , declared that the young Tauber was the greatest Ottavio he had ever heard , and he was noted for the intense conviction with which he declaimed to his Donna Anna ( in the German text then still generally in use , even at festivals ) the solemn oath , ‘ Ich schwöre ’ . |