Example sentences of "was [not/n't] [v-ing] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strong and prescient words , yet Marsh was not calling for a halt to all human interference . |
| 2 | He told himself he was not looking for a lover , but simply the opportunity to tell Resenence about the dream . |
| 3 | I was not asking for a debate and I want to make that quite clear . |
| 4 | Yet history records that the nation was not waiting for a programme of national reconstruction . |
| 5 | But I was not going for a bus ride , I was looking for the gents . |
| 6 | On 5 August he made a statement in which he said that Spain " was not begging for a place in any international organization and would certainly not accept any such place unless it were commensurate with her historical importance , size of population and her services to peace and culture " , including neutrality during the Second World War . |
| 7 | I was n't looking for a job because I had n't finished my training , but er a friend of mine has h her father is a G P in Loughton , and he erm was at a meeting with the senior partner of my practice , and they said do you know of anybody who 's interested in a partnership ? |
| 8 | He was n't going for a joy trip , he was n't going out in the boat just to se to while away an hour or so to relax and to unwind , he was n't going there to , just to get away from the crowd of people that had been following him and had been listening to him , he had a purpose in going in into the boat , to go to the other side . |
| 9 | ‘ I told him — my husband had a hard job , he was n't working for a time . |