Example sentences of "were [v-ing] for a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was settled that Branson would give her the signed contract at the Roof Gardens , where all the directors of Virgin were meeting for a Christmas dinner . |
| 2 | Against that , coach Ian McGeechan would contend that the captain deserved no small measure of credit for the way Scotland refused to buckle , actually winning the last quarter when all England were looking for a scoring holocaust . |
| 3 | Interpol , at the time of writing , were looking for a Norfolk widow regarding their enquiries into the death of her husband . |
| 4 | If I were looking for a record deal , I would be pursuing individual A&R people , getting them to come and see my band . |
| 5 | His dad was saying that er Devon Desserts were looking for a fork lift driver |
| 6 | Meanwhile , Microsoft ( who , incidentally , were then engaged in legal battle with Apple ) had bought a PostScript clone vendor , Bauer Technologies , and were looking for a font technology for OS/2 's Presentation Manager . |
| 7 | Angela and Chris , both 28 , thought the bride 's parents , Norman and Gladys Smith , were paying for a buffet lunch , and both families would share the reception costs . |
| 8 | As of 12 September 1991 , 200 young people in the CambsTEC area were waiting for a youth training place . |
| 9 | They were waiting for a lobster boat 's arrival in expectation of being thrown a free dinner — less work than fishing on their own account ; which about summed up life on the Keys , Trent thought . |
| 10 | They are increased now obviously but erm , you know to put anything on a tuppeny fare then was well a ha'penny which was twenty five percent on terrible , every year we were going for a fare increase and in those days you really had to go through the Traffic Commissioners . |
| 11 | Erm , what I 'm , I 've just arranged somebody to redo our speaker syste our original system with tannoys , we blew our tannoys speakers , and I did n't bother getting them replaced because we were going for a rock crowd so we just used Bernie and Nigel |
| 12 | They were going for a world record … and they got it . |
| 13 | Our earliest known inhabitant , " Hailing Man " , is now securely dated by the radiocarbon method to about 2000 B.C. His skeleton came to light in August 1912 when workmen were excavating for a sewage tank behind the railway station . |
| 14 | Mrs Beckett , 49 , and her 66-year-old husband were preparing for a dinner party when the gang knocked at their white pebble-dashed detached cottage in the Derbyshire village of Littleover on Sunday . |
| 15 | I 'm glad to say they all finished as friends over a glass of beer … but there were no cheers for the Tredworth rugby team from Gloucester on saturday … they were hoping for a fairy tale in their Provincial Cup Semi-Final … sadly what they got was a horror story |
| 16 | Indeed , during the presidential campaign of 1952 Churchill — and many others in London — were hoping for a Democrat victory . |