Example sentences of "[noun] were [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | from Northern Ireland there 's big Billy Hamilton … he 's an old Oxford favourite … the fans were calling for him on saturday … he 's done well with Distillery … |
| 2 | from Northern Ireland there 's big Billy Hamilton … he 's an old Oxford favourite … the fans were calling for him on saturday … he 's done well with Distillery … |
| 3 | Ari Vatanen has come second and Colin McRae sixth … a good performance … but the British fans were hoping for more as Tim Russon now reports |
| 4 | When the fans were screaming for him to play Clive Allen , Reid kept him on the bench . |
| 5 | Medau MArdle ( Norfolkese for ‘ gossip ’ ) is the title of a Medau newsheet launched last year for Norfolk members , edited by Janet Burns — so successful that readers were calling for a second edition a bare three weeks later . |
| 6 | The gang then bribed border officials in Mexico before driving the vehicles to South America , where a steady stream of clients were waiting for delivery . |
| 7 | Reassuringly familiar , homely figures like Gareth Holmroyd and Pat Selig were arriving for work , pacing out the well-worn diagonal trail across the court from the end of Hand and Ball Passage to the main door of the office . |
| 8 | The bantams were waiting for her to let them out of their safe house . |
| 9 | Competitors who converged on the Southlands Centre from all over the North-East were playing for places in the national finals in Reading in August . |
| 10 | She let us stay with her for a week after Dada — ’ She paused , and again her hesitation appeared as if her mind were groping for an answer or a revelation to something she could n't understand ; then she said , ‘ After Dada … died . |
| 11 | Opposition parties were calling for fresh elections , and criticizing President Slobodan Milosevic for his handling of the military campaign . |
| 12 | When North Harbour were aiming for the top in New Zealand it took four years of struggle — getting beaten by the top provinces — before we managed to make our own mark . |
| 13 | Erika dissented quite vehemently from this heresy while , despite herself , her eyes were searching for a mirror . |
| 14 | On March 29 Moscow radio reported that almost all Ossete villages in South Ossetia had been razed by Georgian militants , and on the following day there were ominous reports from officials in North Ossetia that 12,000 armed Georgians were massing for an assault on Tskhinvali and surrounding districts still under Ossete control . |
| 15 | On 22 March 1975 two electricians were checking for air leaks beside electricity cable ducts in the Browns Ferry power station in Alabama — then the world 's largest operating nuclear plant . |
| 16 | In the yard , the protagonists were preparing for battle . |
| 17 | Birds and animals were settling for the night ; a nightjar churred , a mallard made a last leisurely circle near the riverbank and then disappeared , a moorhen called ‘ cock-cock-cock ’ to no one in particular . |
| 18 | All the animals were waiting for Anabelle when she returned to Uncle Alfred 's nest on the other side of the canal . |
| 19 | As the NCF tried to come to terms with the fact that most of its supporters were opting for the Home Office scheme , bitter arguments broke out . |
| 20 | If Saddam Hussein or Colonel Qaddaffi were bidding for control of a firm that employs 130,000 people , makes explosives and could be made to make chemical weapons , that would be reason for concern . |
| 21 | Copper vessels were selling for around £4 : 13s. 4d. the cwt. , although manufacturing costs accounted for some £2 17s. : 8d. of this . |
| 22 | From 1992 – 93 the target was reduced to an 18-month maximum and many districts were aiming for a year or even less . |
| 23 | Maybe scum gangs were uniting for some big upward raid , eh ? |
| 24 | An answer came from Huddersfield , where the Town Football Club were looking for an assistant to their secretary-manager Ambrose Langley , who had partnered Chapman 's brother at Hull before the war . |
| 25 | Last season they won the Fourth Division title and Corden believed the club were heading for second division football . |
| 26 | But Protestant orthodoxy in the generations after the Reformation had inclined to treat the Bible in a rather hardened and absolute fashion , and to search in it for a wider range of information than the Reformers were looking for . |
| 27 | A BABY girl died and two other badly-burned youngsters were fighting for their lives last night after a TV drowned out the sounds of a blaze ripping through a council house . |
| 28 | Second , the regulators were looking for an infusion of capital from outside the banking industry . |
| 29 | Ranulf and Dame Agatha were waiting for him near the Galilee Gate , the young nun apparently enjoying an account of one of his manservant 's many escapades in London . |
| 30 | However , Viking wo n't initially appear in the 50MHz , 150 MIPS versions its parents were shooting for . |