Example sentences of "[subord] they [was/were] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Norman Fowler 's speech was far too left-wing for them , so they were heading for the ‘ Hedgehog and Hogshead ’ , a railway pub north of the main Brighton railway station . |
| 2 | I did wonder if they were searching for the book . |
| 3 | The two girls looked at each other , as if they were searching for the similarities . |
| 4 | No one would object if they were paying for the facilities themselves . |
| 5 | It was n't as if they were heading for the hills . |
| 6 | But , increasingly , films look like they were designed for the small screen . |
| 7 | While they were waiting for the warrant to arrive the Captain telephoned the American Consulate to inform them of Deborah Maxwell 's citizenship . |
| 8 | While they were waiting for the targets to be set up , Burun took Rostov aside . |
| 9 | To make matters worse , the value of homes has dropped dramatically since they were fixed for the council tax more than a year ago . |
| 10 | Six seconds of fame after hours of queueing for this fan of a fan THE Lamports had queued for four hours before they were interviewed for the Antiques . |
| 11 | They 're lab chimps , and before they were acquired for the Jenner Clinic they were part of a language project . |
| 12 | Naturally most of the boys opted for ‘ the strip ’ and each time the innuendo was made the girls pretended it was terribly witty and original , If a little naughty , just as they did when they were asked for the twentieth time if perhaps they might be the prize . |
| 13 | But the British authorities were unable to protect the Littlejohns when they were arrested for the robbery of £67,000 from a bank in Grafton Street , Dublin , in 1972 . |
| 14 | That Fiji won the main prize so easily led to something of an anti-climax , but that was hardly the fault of the organisers , though they were to blame for the scant and often inaccurate team information for public and press . |
| 15 | Their destination could only be guessed at , but by their line of march through upper Clydesdale it looked as though they were heading for the West March , possibly even Galloway . |
| 16 | He then worked as the third man on the management side at Middlesbrough , under Bruce Rioch and Colin Todd before joining Darlington , as they were heading for the GM Vauxhall Conference , three years ago . |