Example sentences of "that he was [v-ing] for a " in BNC.

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1 A few years later , that sum was awarded to Robert Maxwell for the false suggestion that he was angling for a peerage , while ten times that amount was lavished on Jeffrey Archer in revenge for the suggestion that he had received a sexual favour from a prostitute he had admitted to paying to leave the country .
2 When , in 1978 , after four years with the company , Al Clark presented himself in Branson 's office to announce that he was leaving for a job with better pay and more responsibility , Branson 's response was to pull a water pistol from his desk and start firing at him , grinning broadly all the while .
3 He told me how , at one point in his life , presumably in the 1930s , that he was searching for a new purpose and direction in his life ; one offering greater personal fulfilment .
4 Working as a pageboy in a club in St James 's in the 1930s , he mentioned to a member that he was looking for a better-paid job .
5 He called the tower , told them he had an emergency and that he was returning for a landing .
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