Example sentences of "know [pron] [pers pn] was [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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1 | I do n't know what he was looking for , some guilt , some shame , some scandal , I do n't know — but it just is n't there , I suppose . |
2 | No movement that he could see , with or without the aid of the binoculars — but then he did n't really know what he was looking for , whilst Windeler had seemed far more assured . |
3 | He did n't know what he was looking for . |
4 | Was the vicious rumour that he had turned up late after a liquid lunch and did n't know what he was voting for true ? |
5 | He did n't know what he was lying for . |
6 | If only , she thought ; but it was no good wishing , especially when she did n't even know what she was wishing for . |
7 | She had had every opportunity to be , for heaven 's sake , but she 'd never worked hard enough at it and now she did not feel like struggling with a foreign language to search for an item when she did not even know what she was looking for . |
8 | I do n't know what she was looking for , but she did n't see me . |
9 | She did n't know what she was waiting for , a miracle perhaps , because one thing she did know , and that was that Patsy was right . |