Example sentences of "and [pers pn] was [v-ing] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took drugs , he said , ‘ because my parents had divorced and I was crying out for love . |
| 2 | It seems to me that this is something on which er not en passant but within the flow of his report Dr Stuart mentioned something of great importance and I was jotting down for myself , by way of aide memoire , membership , Madagascar , ministry of the whole people of God , three Ms as it were . |
| 3 | The first of the two meetings then was of the regional chairman of BAIE ( and I was standing in for ours in Scotland ) followed by a meeting of the Council of BAIE . |
| 4 | And she was going in for eggs or something , said well I usually leave them a day or two in the winter cos it does n't hurt and she said she struggled and struggled with that door ! |
| 5 | The long and the short of it is , her father owns the two shops — I suppose they 're joined at the back — and she was standing in for her father . |
| 6 | They had fetched him for Christmas and he was staying on for the New Year . |
| 7 | Actually , before he moved away , he , he gave up his designing job and he was working in for a bit . |
| 8 | She 'll go up up the path and all I could see was this cat , and it was hanging on for dear life up this big tree and there |