Example sentences of "was [adv] [v-ing] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sitting on the veranda herself a short while later as she worked on a lacy white shawl she was secretly knitting for the baby , Belinda murmured aloud , ‘ I hope Tom comes today . |
| 2 | I wandered off to find Jack Mason and my parents and saw Toby , who was obviously heading for the Press tent , the conference with the winner , and several post-tournament drinks . |
| 3 | She knew he was only pretending for the benefit of their audience . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , God help him , poor gentleman , ’ Kate laughed , pleased at male incompetence , ‘ he was only looking for the oven when I got in . |
| 5 | I came out of the forces , he was only waiting for the time that I came out , for him to retire . |
| 6 | It was impossible she should be unaware of the treat she was thus providing for the soldiery , many of whom expressed their appreciation in appropriately ribald terms . |
| 7 | erm Darwin says in the origin , and I 'm sorry I ca n't read it to you , but I was desperately looking for the quotation in the origin before I can and I could n't find it but I assure you it 's there erm in which he remarks that in all probability the periods of time during which species are not changing is probably very large compared with those periods when change is taking place . |
| 8 | Her hand was already reaching for the telephone when a large shape loomed in what now became recognisable as a doorway . |
| 9 | Winking broadly in Lindsey 's direction , he was already heading for the door . |
| 10 | There was no discernible motion , but Rostov guessed that the pod was already heading for the surface of Tarvaras . |
| 11 | He was always looking for the beginning of something , and he had the energy of someone starting their career . |
| 12 | He was always looking for the catch . |
| 13 | I was always heading for the carvery and eating too much . |
| 14 | I was always heading for the carvery and eating too much . |
| 15 | Tony was always preparing for the future with David and with MainMan , so he was always two or three steps ahead of himself . |
| 16 | I was always waiting for the day when I would be beaten up , but it never came . |
| 17 | He claimed that Ferrara and Faenza had been promised to papal authority in 757 as part of the Exarchate of Ravenna before Desiderius became king and while he was still struggling for the crown with his rival King Ratchis . |
| 18 | He was still looking for the end of the war and the land fit for heroes to live in . |
| 19 | ‘ I was still waiting for the doctor to arrive . |
| 20 | ‘ 'Then some asshole of a journalist printed a story that he was still working for the Company and a couple of weeks later the Red Brigade snatched both of them . |
| 21 | But the London and North-Western and the Great Western Railway companies were criticized for their poor provision of workmen 's trains in 1892 and a parliamentary select committee was still pressing for the provision of cheap trains for workers in 1905 . |
| 22 | The conference also suggested that the standard requisitions on title be amended to include a reference to whether a seller 's solicitor was also acting for the lender in the redemption of the mortgage . |
| 23 | One of the men from the pub ( the Yasser Arafat look-alike ) was also working for the school . |
| 24 | He was also working for the Department of Archaeology and the Museum and , greatest profit of all , teaching English to the daughter of a rich immigrant Hungarian Jewish family who paid him , for just two lessons a week , more money than his poor father had earned by a hard week 's slog in the docks . |
| 25 | ‘ The other song was really slammin' for the dancefloor but it 's a love song and it just did n't seem right . |
| 26 | She had read law as an undergraduate and was now reading for the Bar . |
| 27 | They came out of the circuit one by one and bore down on the SE5s , each of which was now heading for the balloon from a different quarter . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | According to Stanley Turner , curator of the Michael Peto archive at Dundee University , ‘ he was continuously searching for the vision of a monumental human form to epitomise the universality of whatever scene , situation or event he was out to capture … always intent on raising his workday subjects from fleeting , mundane , accidental movement into symbolic representatives of their class or profession . ’ |
| 30 | One of them was actually working for the intelligence services . |