Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [v-ing] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At the time , young Steven was working for the Inland Revenue near Strangeways Prison . |
| 2 | Corbett was looking for a suitable place as the crowd began to disperse when Benstede returned , accompanied by a thin , stooping figure with watery eyes , a drinker 's red nose and a wispy beard . |
| 3 | Having coached Waikato in the New Zealand provincial championship for some years , Ross was looking for a new challenge and the opportunity to come to Northampton came at exactly the right moment . |
| 4 | As against the classical , the serenely beautiful , Nietzsche was opting for the archaic . |
| 5 | Frank was working for a large nursery and wanted to get into management when his eyesight started to fail . |
| 6 | Ronnie Barker was hoping for a peaceful life when he retired six years ago . |
| 7 | The Turkish authorities estimated that their charge to Iraq would be US$264,000,000 ; the UN was arguing for a lower figure . |
| 8 | Lester was producing for the first time , after his experience with A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Forum . |
| 9 | The allegations broke on Tuesday as Jackson was preparing for the first of two concerts in Bangkok , the first stop in the Asian swing of his Dangerous world tour . |
| 10 | McKenzie was fighting for the first time since losing his IBF title to Ulster 's Dave McAuley . |
| 11 | After years of living in several buildings scattered around Soho Square and Oxford Street , Fitch was looking for a permanent headquarters to physically unite its ‘ multi-disciplinary ’ practice . |
| 12 | Fortunately she had no time to find the answer , as Mr Pumblechook was calling for a hot rum to remove the taste of the medicine . |
| 13 | MODERATE supporters of President Rafsanjani were heading for an overwhelming victory over Iranian hardliners last night , according to the latest tally of returns from parliamentary elections held on Friday . |
| 14 | When de Kooning was looking for a bigger space , Vicente suggested he take a studio next to his . |
| 15 | President Corazon Aquino of the Philippines was pressing for a seven-year treaty with an annual US$825 million in compensation ( comprising $400 million in cash grants and the remainder in concessions including debt reductions and trade concessions ) . |
| 16 | It was April and John Moore was studying for an important examination . |
| 17 | DAVID Mellor was heading for the political scrapheap last night after Downing Street revealed that he did NOT seek permission for his ‘ freebie ’ holiday with Mona Bauwens . |
| 18 | When a number of us here did a study of the 1984 Chesterfield by-election , where Tony Benn was standing for the first time , and asked constituents themselves what they felt about the broadcast coverage , they repeatedly used the word ‘ bias ’ to describe it . |
| 19 | Jay was waiting for the soul-inspired Adagio . |
| 20 | Mr Heseltine was working for a 50:50 hybrid tax , split between property and head-tax . |
| 21 | When Félicie Cendrars saw them again Jeanne and Modi were looking for a reliable wet-nurse , since neither she nor her mother ‘ could do anything with little Jeanne . |
| 22 | Tom Watson from the US was bidding for the joint record-sixth British Open victory that would make him immortal alongside Harry Vardon . |
| 23 | Mungo was looking for a straight answer . |
| 24 | Moreover he knew that Harwell were looking for the crucial neutron spectrum which , surely , would clinch everything . |
| 25 | Jack and Alison were going for a few days to Amsterdam . |
| 26 | To some extent perhaps they were the victims of their own official attitude to what was happening — as when the French Ambassador in London told Eden that a French civil and military resistance organization in Vietnam had the general support of the army and the civil population : whether this was the French or the Vietnamese population was apparently not specified — but in their Declaration of 24 March 1945 the Provisional French Government implied that all the peoples of Indochina were fighting for a common cause ; which was that of the entire French community . |
| 27 | In this case , though , is n't it more likely that Joanna was looking for the same 15 minutes of fame achieved by Australian nightclub singer Fairlie Arrow a year ago ? |
| 28 | And by early autumn , Mr Major was preparing for the worst — and yesterday he delivered it in a statement to the Commons . |
| 29 | As late as 1815 , in his Treatise on the management of draught horses , especially those in the coal trade in London , Higgs was pleading for a clear detachment of the veterinary surgeon and the farrier from each other . |
| 30 | During the mid 1970s Californian collector Gary Harris was looking for a suitable warbird to acquire and restore . |