Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] was [v-ing] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she was going to qualify for Wembley , she was going to have to do it on her own and Midnight just had to be good enough . |
| 2 | If she was going to stay for any length of time , she was going to need some furniture at least , she thought frowningly . |
| 3 | One more story about O : he told me ( it was as if he was trying to explain the oddity of his lovemaking to me , as if he was trying to account for or apologise for the way he 'd treated me , or perhaps to reassure me concerning the effect he 'd had on me , I do n't know ) , in the morning he told me that there was one man , this had been just a couple of years previously , there was one man who had summoned him to his bedside to be counted amongst a farewell gathering of lovers , dear friends and great passions . |
| 4 | While I was sitting waiting for Jenny , a number of well-dressed women of about my age filed past me , some of them evidently wearied by their afternoon of serious picture-watching . |
| 5 | I met and married my husband just at the point when I was beginning to apply for senior registrar posts . |
| 6 | I had regarded the English language almost as my own private possession , something which was mine by right , and now it seemed that I was going to have to fight to hang on to it , as I was having to fight for everything else . |