Example sentences of "were [v-ing] [adv] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He shut his eyes upon a rush of tears , and painfully contained them , but the springs of fondness in the middle of his being were weeping inconsolably for the stilling of the quick hands and the creative mind . |
| 2 | In LONDON dealers were gearing up for a rush of prospective buyers . |
| 3 | These poor chaps were searching desperately for a project which would not be cursed with the ephemeral vulgarity of their usual tasks . |
| 4 | Two friends from the paras — one an ex-member of the Irish Rangers , the other a deserter from the French Foreign Legion — were saving up for a trip to South Africa where they intended to join the South African Army . |
| 5 | They were heading straight for the belt of shrubbery where he and Larsen had taken cover , and which Larsen had just vacated . |
| 6 | So that 's when I was eating my dinner , when they were going up for the cup and she fell asleep , well you know with the wine in you , here was my eyes all out for the count . |
| 7 | Oh , must be Friday then , I knew they were going away for the week , weekend |
| 8 | Who were going in for the exam and I were n't allowed to help them . |
| 9 | They were going out for a west end meal in the evening . |
| 10 | Her son and daughter who cared for her were going abroad for a fortnight 's holiday . |
| 11 | In homes across the States millions of Americans were switching on for an evening 's viewing . |
| 12 | I says I 've already told you about it , she says yeah I know she says but you 're going for some petrol tonight , I just wondered if you were coming up for an hour tonight . |
| 13 | She and Hattie said they were coming around for a cup of tea . |
| 14 | so it meant that for some time before contingency fund development was introduced you must of had some concerns er about the accuracy of the figures you were putting forward for the publication , can , can I explain that a little more ? if after a few years a major repair needs to be carried out there was no contingency fund , it might mean sticking another two or three hundred pounds a year on the service charges , might it not , to cover a major repair |
| 15 | I think that year we were making up for the limitations of the one before . |
| 16 | The taxi driver who left us at the station , enchanted by the idea that we were setting off for the source of the Nile , refused to accept any fare . |
| 17 | Others , their duties finished , were settling down for the night on their pallets in front of the fires . |
| 18 | Following from this the aim was that the project should collaborate with existing service-providers in order to ensure that there was no overlap or competition with others but that all were working together for the good of the client ; and that the project would , where necessary , coordinate the services available to each client and thus ensure an appropriate and suitably balanced package of care for that person . |