Example sentences of "if [pers pn] was [v-ing] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And occasionally if I was looking for a magazine to buy , it would get a lot of i good information in it too . |
| 2 | At £12,260 the Aura TD is not particularly cheap but it would certainly be near the top of my shopping list if I was looking for a medium-sized diesel hatchback . |
| 3 | They fell silent for a moment , all of them wondering if she was shopping for the son who was lying in a dissecting trench at the Medico-Legal Institute . |
| 4 | Manipulating a lump of putty from finger to finger , hand to hand , he looked as if he was auditioning for the lead role in The Caine Mutiny . |
| 5 | Yeah that he just , he asked Gary this morning if he was looking for a job |
| 6 | Dad looked as if he was dying for a cigarette : he gave up smoking two years ago when his secretary-before-last got lung cancer . |
| 7 | ‘ If he was working for the Private Office in South London on the afternoon in question I should be very surprised indeed . ’ |