Example sentences of "was [v-ing] for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She studied it carefully as though it were some unfamiliar object she was seeing for the first time . |
| 2 | Lester was producing for the first time , after his experience with A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Forum . |
| 3 | Within a year , he was cooking for the Royal Box and state galas . |
| 4 | One boy , Dai Knoyle , was caddying for the great rugby player Barry John and took him back to his house to change . |
| 5 | Harry Holmes senior was competing for the last time , having raced thirty-seven times between 1933 and 1969 . |
| 6 | It was said with a kind of embarrassed formality as if he , not Dalgliesh , were the host and he was apologizing for the unexpected absence of the hostess . |
| 7 | The greatest victory for the Sandinistas , he said , was that a new path was opening for the Nicaraguan people without war and where national interests would prevail over interventionist policies . |
| 8 | Moreover it was becoming for the first time , as a result of Peter 's administrative reforms , an institution concerned solely with diplomacy . |
| 9 | The 1,000-strong Congress , which was meeting for the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union , is the only body in the country that can change the constitution and other basic laws . |
| 10 | Again , it was with the help of Phil Andrews , who was No.1 on Venturous at that time , with Bob Wellock , an ex air/sea RAF coxswain from Liverpool Customs in command whom I was meeting for the first time . |
| 11 | She was stumbling for the right words . |
| 12 | yes it 's Chernobyl , he was looking for the real word there , a nuclear what ? |
| 13 | I was looking for the perfect book and I found it . ’ |
| 14 | Hershman says his movie is inspired by Jean-Luc Godard 's Breathless , and that he was looking for the new Jean-Paul Belmondo to play the lead . |
| 15 | I was looking for the same thing yesterday ! |
| 16 | I was looking for the twenty-five pounds . |
| 17 | Because that 's detail really , er , I was looking for the main parts . |
| 18 | She could see that he was searching for the right words , the very thing that would describe what he had felt , what he had experienced at that moment . |
| 19 | He was searching for the right doctor — he meant a doctor for his soul — and kept falling into the hands of quacks . |
| 20 | Archie 's Nephew , a stable-companion of Rushing Wild , was scoring for the first time this season , having acted as a schoolmaster for novice riders in several earlier runs . |
| 21 | The horse was racing for the first time for Epsom trainer Roger Ingram having previously run in Ireland for Joanna Morgan . |
| 22 | DAVID Mellor was heading for the political scrapheap last night after Downing Street revealed that he did NOT seek permission for his ‘ freebie ’ holiday with Mona Bauwens . |
| 23 | Her family had never doubted she was heading for the top job . |
| 24 | FRANCE 'S conservative op-position routed the ruling Socialist Party in yesterday 's first round of the general election and was heading for the biggest landslide victory this century . |
| 25 | And he was waiting for the final match in the other group between Stefan Edberg and Boris Becker to see if his No 1 ranking could be threatened . |
| 26 | I was waiting for the other half when Oliver fled . |
| 27 | I was waiting for the right moment to find out just how deeply your were involved with Elise . |
| 28 | Jay was waiting for the soul-inspired Adagio . |
| 29 | I was waiting for The Headless Horseman Three … |
| 30 | She made her get into bed and said she was sending for the blue ladies right away . |