Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] was [v-ing] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE former prime minister of Pakistan , Mohammad Khan Junejo , has died of a heart attack in Baltimore in the United States , where he was undergoing treatment for leukaemia . |
| 2 | He joins Yuill from Twyfords where he was marketing manager for four years . |
| 3 | Although I was doing Shakespeare for A-level I had never seen any of his plays performed on stage . |
| 4 | I began to wonder if I was creating profiles for murder . |
| 5 | The way I look at it is that if I was scoring goals for Juventus we might be conceding more at the other end because I have other responsibilities now . ’ |
| 6 | This again had its useful side if one was choosing clothes for oneself . |
| 7 | Well then , cos he was doing executor for poor old soul poor old and er Ivy used to go and see her pretty frequently , she said do come and see me Mrs ? |
| 8 | It does n't seem more than a few months since I was knitting clothes for her dolls — and now — ’ She held up her needles , speared through the left front of a pearly-white matinée jacket . |
| 9 | Nicky and Roma met while he was mixing sound for Planxty years ago . |
| 10 | He abused his inheritance , behaved extravagantly , and nearly got his comeuppance from the weasels — a violent proletariat who squatted in his house while he was doing time for car theft . |
| 11 | Not that Melissa cared two hoots whether it was making money for Bonard or not — whatever Iris might claim , he was certainly not strapped for cash — but it was essential for Iris 's self-esteem that it should go well . |
| 12 | But it was not long before he was describing projects for further productions . |
| 13 | Sir , — This correspondence ( ‘ Call for fresh air , not tea … answered by the taxman ’ , p 7 ) reminds me of an occasion some years ago when I was playing hockey for Ilford against Old Loughtonians . |
| 14 | ‘ A little girl called Amy from Chester contacted me as I was providing cover for the whole of the North , ’ she says . |
| 15 | If she had , she would have been sure to say so when she was blaming Joseph for the murder . |
| 16 | Now as she was getting inquiries for further ahead , it was possible to plan doing this . |