Example sentences of "and [was/were] [verb] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1923 Van Der Meulen applied for the post of consul there and was selected for a three-year training in Arabic and Islam by the great Leiden Arabist , Snouck Hurgronje . |
| 2 | He confesses that at the age of 40 he had reached ‘ the proverbial midlife crisis ’ and was searching for a different way of life . |
| 3 | He had just won the Cannes Palme d'Or for Mission , and was looking for a new challenge . |
| 4 | She had just arrived and was looking for a cheap hotel . |
| 5 | Earlier that year he had met a merchant from London who had money to spare and was looking for a likely speculation and Harry , being in the right place at the right time for once , had sold him the idea of investing in a privateering cruise to the Americas . |
| 6 | Well , she was actually called Marian Evans and was looking for a masculine name to writer under . |
| 7 | He was rewarded with the first Presidency of the BDDA and was reelected for a total period of twenty-eight years . |
| 8 | By now Caroline had left the London college and was working for a glossy magazine in Cardiff . |
| 9 | She thought afterwards , and was to think for a long time , that it was Sophie and Teodor who saved her . |