Example sentences of "they [was/were] [v-ing] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But unbundlers did , for they were borrowing for a short haul before assets could be sold : in that time , they assumed their guesses about cash flow would be pretty safe and that asset prices would carry on rising . |
| 2 | By the time the General Election arrived eighteen months later , there was a good candidate ( Malcolm Thornton , now MP ) , a renewed constituency organisation and time for the people of Crosby to realise that they 'd done in that panicky moment when they were looking for a familiar face as their Member of Parliament . |
| 3 | McLeish thanked him , scrambled up the embankment , drawing in deep breaths , and walked carefully down the side of the track in the sizeable footsteps of his squad , explaining to them that they were looking for a sharp-edged weapon . |
| 4 | Judges said they were looking for a pleasing colour , a sharp flavour and a good fruity smell . |
| 5 | They originally thought they were looking for a medieval leper hospital , but then they uncovered a skeleton almost two thousand years old . |
| 6 | The unions said that they were looking for the second week in January to begin an all-out stoppage . |
| 7 | This reflected the nature of the environment , the local pride of the individual Australian colonies , and the awareness of the railway builders and architects that they were building for a grander , though then unrealized , future . |
| 8 | But , more than that , his predilection for Neath players deprived the club of their own best talent so that when they would otherwise have been training for the league , instead they were training for the Five Nations Championship . |
| 9 | They were marching for a lost innocence . |
| 10 | With help from sympathetic resources they were hoping for a world-wide mailing of leaflets . |
| 11 | It was like , it was like a , like they were waiting for an offside or some there were just could n't believe , it was |
| 12 | To say they were playing for a 0–0 is an understatement . |
| 13 | This was important , because a national study in 1965 showed that one-fifth of women who were working part-time did so because they were caring for a sick or elderly person . |
| 14 | It was nice of them to let me join in , they were very patient , but you could see they were itching for a good game and I 'm just hopeless . |
| 15 | Down in Frome they were preparing for the worst ; on 23 February 1798 a meeting of the ‘ inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood of Frome ’ took place at the George Inn . |
| 16 | Surely they were interceding for the faithful on earth . |
| 17 | They were heading for the besieged Bosnian town of Travnik but never reached it . |
| 18 | Whether they were going for a new place , or staying , the hired hands were all given the day off to attend the Hirings . |