Example sentences of "i [was/were] [v-ing] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , I 'm sorry , I was looking for the loo , ’ I said as casually as I could . |
| 2 | ‘ I was looking for the bathroom , and I surprised him — it was an accident . |
| 3 | I vaguely remembered reminding mum last night that I was looking for the rest of Uncle Rory 's papers . |
| 4 | I always seem to , I think we , we were always at Stanford Hall that we must , it was a must that we have a good programme because if somebody comes and there 's nothing doing , they think well you know yo I , I , you see I suppose I 've got that orientated into Guild work but a friend of mine enticed me to go to er a club and erm it 's just simply for any age group , any sex male or female , but you must bereaved you know and erm she is a widow and I was widow , so I went but you see we , we sat round and you just , there was nothing organised and to me who had always been organised , I just felt so like a lost soul you know and er then one chappie put some records on and you cou and you could n't dance to them and I said oh , you know to me I thought wh you know but I do n't want to do it , I 've got enough to do but , I , I was straight away , I was looking for the organisation behind it you know . |
| 5 | He rang while I was reaching for the phone . |
| 6 | I went to your flat the other day , I was collecting for the blind . |
| 7 | I was apologising for the noise was n't I ? |
| 8 | You would think that I was asking for the earth to be changed but I 'm not really . |
| 9 | In particular , I was waiting for the hedgehog that made its nest at the end of our garden last autumn to come back to life . |
| 10 | I was that disgusted , I was waiting for the music . |
| 11 | When it was time to leave and I was waiting for the car to take me back to the station for the journey back , I have to confess that I shed a tear or two . |
| 12 | I was waiting for the ambulance the ambulance just came |
| 13 | I was waiting for the bus . |
| 14 | But by the time I had turned off the road from Bellingham at Kielder village and driven up the bumpy Forest Drive to East Kielder Farm , I was longing for the sight of something other than water and trees . |
| 15 | It was down the pasture near Lartington on a day during the last war , when the weather was very bad and I was going for the bus to Barnard Castle . |
| 16 | We had adopted them while I was preparing for the desert . |
| 17 | Whilst I was working for the council , someone came to ask and we had some new o new officer appointed and he was very worried about getting ca er p permission from the council to launch a sewer scheme that was going to cost a quarter of a million pounds , a very large amount in those days . |
| 18 | I was working for the company er , in Leicester , called making cotton lisles for twelve years , fifteen years ago . |
| 19 | At that time I was working for the LNER on the Tyneside electrified lines , and had had a gentle hint from my then boss that he would like to know what Mr Rostron was up to . |
| 20 | which had been occupied by soldiers , this was our first hut , well by then I was working for the Corporation and of course by virtue of my job with the chief architect I got this house and we were offered this house about two years later for two thousand pounds and we said oh we would n't be staying here for more than ten years in any case and we would n't be bothered to buy it , but then my husband started in business you see soon after he came back and we eventually got the shop and , of course it 's very convenient because we 're only a stone 's throw from the shop you see , so we stayed here |