Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [verb] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he admits : ‘ It is not normal for the Spanish people to leave the place where you were born for long spells . |
| 2 | ‘ We were looking for 12 matches or even 16 , ’ David Brook , the club president , said . |
| 3 | In the analysis of linguistic variation , therefore , we were looking for fine details of variation-variation that shows internal patterning within the speech community , but which may have no social meaning for outsiders — and in the first application for funding it was specified that the research was intended to extend the quantitative methodology to a type of community that had not been studied in this way before . |
| 4 | We were separated for four hours in Peterborough once — I looked everywhere for him . |
| 5 | At one station we were stopped for several hours alongside a troop train on which I discovered the Reverend R.H.L. Slater , now enrolled as an army chaplain , who told me the comforting news that my wife and three children had got away from Myitkyina a day or two earlier . |
| 6 | I mean we 'll be back to the scenario that we were fighting for three years ago . |
| 7 | We did n't know that we were asking for impossible things , because we had never worked in the record business before — and we 'd get them . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , the new baronet lived in India and no instructions from him were expected for many months . |
| 9 | The location of the airfields was not logical if they were intended for defensive purposes . |
| 10 | Archaic Greek coins are found in hoards from Egypt and the Levant , as they were exchanged for goods , perhaps grain or slaves ; many hoards of Roman silver and gold coins are known from southern India because they were exchanged for luxury items such as exotic spices and perfumes , rich silks and precious gems . |
| 11 | FEDERAL officials yesterday made one arrest in their search for the bombers of the World Trade Centre in New York and authorities said they were looking for other suspects . |
| 12 | They were looking for 4 men . |
| 13 | When the authentic medical researchers started to get involved , they were looking for dietary answers to serious illnesses prevalent in Western societies but extremely rare in many less sophisticated communities in the developing world . |
| 14 | The strongest signal of Moscow 's fury with the intransigent Romanian regime came when Pravda , the Communist Party daily newspaper , reported favourably on the demonstrators in Timisoara , saying that they were looking for rapid reforms in the country . |
| 15 | Tony and Ian Greig , in turn , soon served notice that they were headed for higher arenas . |
| 16 | After the 36–6 defeat , Argentine coach Luis Gradin said : ‘ I was not happy with the three penalties they were given for collapsed scrums . |
| 17 | Before they were formed for regular bookings at the Palace Theatre , London , every Girl had considerable experience in dancing . |
| 18 | Tired of listening to dolphins squeak , they were searching for new ways to communicate with those obdurate , cloth-eared Earthlings . |
| 19 | They were searching for ten fridges and freezers which the consumer magazine ‘ Which ’ says are the most energy-efficient models on the market . |
| 20 | of all entries each month to ensure that they were made for legitimate purposes . |
| 21 | They were made for special occasions |
| 22 | After being placed in quicklime to dry , they were steamed for twelve hours — a process that was repeated several times . |
| 23 | They were used for unaimed shots , fired from the hip by men advancing in mass , while a British infantryman was trained to shoot from a prone position at a target . |
| 24 | Only three of Armenia 's fleet of seven helicopters remained , the rest having been shot down by Azerbaijani forces claiming that they were used for military purposes . |
| 25 | Frailties throughout the team had been ruthlessly exploited at Leicester , where they were taken for 60 points . |
| 26 | The management says they were closed for commercial reasons . |
| 27 | They were selling for five pounds each at a market at Moreton in Marsh in Gloucestershire . |
| 28 | It was not until they had just left the Church that Joan discovered they were going for two weeks to Tenerife . |
| 29 | Gruinard Island is prominent off-shore : this was commandeered by the military authorities during the last war for experiments in chemical weapons , the ground being so contaminated that approaches to it were forbidden for forty years afterwards , the ban only recently being lifted . |