Example sentences of "was [adv] [v-ing] for [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She was only waiting for the kids to grow up and then she said she 'd leave me . |
| 2 | A national economic policy designed to reduce public expenditure , to liberate enterprise and to eradicate inflation , combined with a determination to limit local-government spending and intervention , was extremely damaging for the cities and their economies in the early 1980s . |
| 3 | He was yesterday caring for the boys , aged four and six . |
| 4 | Visiting them at Christmas was particularly rewarding for the field-worker in order to see conspired contacts demonstrate the regard in which they held the neighbourhood police ; of course , it was equally rewarding for the police . |
| 5 | This ‘ rothaariges Jungling ’ was the twenty-three year-old Frits Lugt who was then working for the auctioneers Frederik Müller et Cie and the message led to an invitation to visit Dr Max Friedländer in that great training ground for art historians , the Print Room of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum . |
| 6 | I wish it was true that he was actually studying for A levels though . |