Example sentences of "[coord] [was/were] [verb] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Defa studios in the East Berlin suburb of Badelsburg are no longer the crumbling , work-shy , institutionalized dump they were two years ago when we began this project and were looking for a home for it . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , Microsoft ( who , incidentally , were then engaged in legal battle with Apple ) had bought a PostScript clone vendor , Bauer Technologies , and were looking for a font technology for OS/2 's Presentation Manager . |
| 3 | It was that sort of occasion 500 women , many of them wearing posh hats and even posher outfits that they 'd bought for weddings and were longing for a chance to wear again . |
| 4 | Pliny spoke of the kraken in the Straits of Gibraltar , where it basked on the warm surface of the water and was mistaken for a series of small islands . |
| 5 | Supporters of both sides could enjoy such matches and the crowd two years later back up in Scotland was enormous and was hoping for a repeat of the excitement . |
| 6 | She had innate sense of good movement and was searching for a system embodying those principles which fulfilled her concept of the art of movement and teaching its technique . |
| 7 | Gascoigne snapped his cruciate ligaments playing for Tottenham in the 1991 FA Cup Final and was sidelined for a year . |
| 8 | Spare Rib was already well established , and was joined for a period by the Leveller , another collective magazine , and the East End News , which produced the first attempt to appeal to ‘ the masses ’ of East London by dressing up Right-On concerns in chirpy Chas'n'Dave-style modernized Cockney . |
| 9 | Grundy , 35 , of Sprotborough , Doncaster — a promising policeman who had been acting sergeant and passed his inspector 's exams — admitted theft and was jailed for a year . |
| 10 | He was born to be King and was looking for a princess . |
| 11 | I currently had a Cavalier SRi and was looking for a GSi . |
| 12 | He had just been de-mobbed from the Army , intended to go up to Oxford to work for his Doctorate in the autumn , and was looking for a house for his mother who had recently been divorced . |
| 13 | and was pulled for a stint |
| 14 | Zelah had taken out one tray of dishes and was returning for a second . |
| 15 | In Edinburgh , she met with representatives of SEAD and was interviewed for a media article . |
| 16 | This building probably held about 100 people and was used for a Sunday evening service as well as the Sunday School . |
| 17 | His drag double act with Roy Barraclough ( Coronation Street 's Alec Gilroy ) , harked back to Norman Evans and was used for a television commercial for the Post Office . |
| 18 | Preston sought anaesthesis in the colour supplement he had brought with him and was distracted for a while by a feature on Great Journeys undertaken or contemplated by the Rich and the Famous . |
| 19 | from north of the border Joe Jordan could be in the running … he 's at Celtic at the moment but was looking for a chance to return to English football … |
| 20 | from north of the border Joe Jordan could be in the running … he 's at Celtic at the moment but was looking for a chance to return to English football … |
| 21 | Ershad 's trial had been scheduled to open on Feb. 16 , but was postponed for a month on a technicality . |