Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [v-ing] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was looking for one hole . |
| 2 | I was looking for some short-cut to getting a complete description of who you are . |
| 3 | We were just walking away , and I was looking for some sort of rubbish container in which to put the bag of icing sugar , when we suddenly heard all those sirens going , and saw masses of policemen running into the park . |
| 4 | He said that it was like taking dictation , ‘ as if I was ghosting for another man ’ . |
| 5 | I was hoping for some money , as I was saving frantically to buy the owl for myself . |
| 6 | She and her best friend cried when they heard I was leaving for another job . |
| 7 | When I went to Drake Hall on one sentence I was waiting for another court case as well , a conspiracy case , a big one . |
| 8 | I was waiting for another piglet and whoops , there it was . |
| 9 | Well that 's what I thought I was going for this morning as well as that one . |
| 10 | Not really no , I was working for another firm by this time . |
| 11 | She was in pain , but she was taking it out on a complicated Fair Isle jumper that she was knitting for some nephew in Canada . |
| 12 | Fabia arose on Sunday morning , thought of Cara , of Barney , and of the man she had never yet met but , with guilty conscience , hoped to , and then attempted to shed her anxieties by remembering that , with Františkovy Láznë being less than twenty-five miles away , Františkovy Láznë was where she was heading for that day . |
| 13 | Did he think she was lying for some reason ? |
| 14 | She was longing for some peace and privacy , believing that now the wedding was over she would slip back into relative obscurity . |
| 15 | But immigration officials said no , believing she was coming for paid work . |
| 16 | A Devon labourer who promised his mother not to marry in her lifetime , finally married only at the age of 51 : ‘ bugger , we was courting for seventeen year . |
| 17 | The University denied it was hoping for some form of financial benefit from the visit . |
| 18 | The overseers of the poor in Frome must have asked themselves very much this same question ; at one time or another something between a quarter and a half of the population of Britain were to receive parish relief in the late 18th century — and the £l , 970 per annum it was costing for such relief in Frome in 1792 would rise to a staggering £11,723 per annum by 1831 . |
| 19 | He was sprinting for dear life across a carrot patch and doing quite well until one of the pieces caught up with him . |
| 20 | When I left , he was calling for more beer . |
| 21 | He is flipping useless and it is time that he was looking for another job . |
| 22 | He was speaking for some time and when he had finished he turned to his wife . |
| 23 | A little man , ‘ looking like a smart French doctor ’ , he was searching for hidden treasure . |
| 24 | Sigua said that he was hoping for economic aid and credits from the USA and Iran and for bilateral trade agreements with Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) countries to relieve the situation . |
| 25 | The Shah 's enemies saw the move differently , The fact that they was now lingering in the area , first in Egypt an now Morocco , rather than proceeding straight to the United States as announced , inevitably aroused the suspicion that he was hoping for some sort of repeat of 1953 . |
| 26 | An uncomfortable pause while he sat forward on the sofa holding his coffee cup in both hands and gazing into it as if he was waiting for some kind of chemical reaction . |
| 27 | She met her husband when he was working for British Steel in Czechoslovakia . |
| 28 | ‘ Did he say anything about where he was going for this meeting ? ’ |