Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She were knocking for this thing you know . |
| 2 | that 's , that 's the other thing when there 's only two of you involved and you , we were opening for that first sort of eighteen months five , six days a week just keeping on top of a day to day business does n't allow you to sit back |
| 3 | we were bidding for this ! |
| 4 | They were , they were videoing for this |
| 5 | If we were searching for this record , a comparison with the ‘ key ’ of the first block would be low , and of the second , high . |
| 6 | So they both were searching for some lost part of themselves this summer . |
| 7 | Tha that Scottish card that you were looking for that painting ? |
| 8 | Is this what you found when you were looking for that card ? |
| 9 | For the next hour the fairground gradually filled with people , mainly families with young children or teenagers who had become bored with their tour round the factory and were looking for some excitement . |
| 10 | Yeah and then we were looking for some carpeting were n't we ? |
| 11 | they have large pans , but even they were looking for some large pans ! |
| 12 | That 's right the tenth replacement depot in Lichfield and they used to come round to Walsall looking for absentees and deserters and they there was actually a shooting match in Street the MPs started firing the guns at these fellas who 'd gone absent without leave , and , but as I understand I remember at the time there was a lot of racism in America then and they , they picked these coloured fellas up and apparently the C O at Lichfield was very much a southern colonel and he was a racist and they used to chain these coloured guys up behind the trucks and make them walk all the way back to Lichfield behind the trucks driving the trucks at walking pace and I understand there was a , a salver , a commemorative salver in the Town Hall to be presented to him , and some an MP in the Council he were looking for this colonel , but as I understand he was court-martialled after the war for racism and so I do n't think he 'd be wanting , wanted to be connected with Walsall any more , so but this was |
| 13 | and then we started speaking to this chap and say we were looking for this place where the erm , they sell all this food and so on , what 's the name of the place , he said oh he says it 's finished , so he said you know where the er , we said er where 's somewhere good you know to , to go and have a nice sleep , and he told us about that place up the mountain where we went , where we all went the last time |
| 14 | But likewise we were looking for another project similar to what er Eric and I were involved in with the cage drilling machine . |
| 15 | If they were looking for more cancer then surely the place to look was at the next vulnerable point ? |
| 16 | There is reason to think they were also feeling the loss of their carriers that June at the battle of Midway , and were looking for more land bases for aircraft . |
| 17 | He took care to appear blithely unworried as he strolled with his staff , for he knew only too well how the French sympathizers in the city were looking for any sign of allied defeatism that they could turn into an argument to demoralize the Dutch-Belgian troops . |
| 18 | I felt they were looking for any excuse to start a fight . |
| 19 | ‘ I think you were looking for these ? ’ |
| 20 | In the mid-Eighties , when Bacons were selling for half a million dollars , he did it again by selling a Bacon Pope belonging to Dufferin for over $1 million . |
| 21 | But Barons came back to lead 4-3 at the end of the second and Tigers looked like they were heading for another defeat . |
| 22 | Twenty two , you were paying for all the teas were n't ya ? |
| 23 | We were paying for that plane . |
| 24 | Maybe they were going for another pastrami sandwich . |
| 25 | It happened as bride Cathy and her sister Andree from Holywood were going for some official pictures for their album . |
| 26 | Emancipation for women was beginning to rumble and Cook may have embraced the idea , but , being a shrewd opportunist , it is more likely that he saw potential customers among women who were striving for more freedom . |
| 27 | So some were staring down at you and others were well below your eye level , which meant that you were scanning for each piece rather than reading them as a series . |
| 28 | The long , silvery , all-metal kitchen was already occupied by two figures dressed in white trousers and jackets topped by high white paper hats : the diminutive lady chef from Montreal and a tall willowy young man who introduced himself as Angus , the special chef employed by the outside firm of top-class caterers who were providing for this journey the sort of food not usually served on trains . |
| 29 | Erm as er you went on as er as far as referrals were concerned and the objections that were raised you , you apacked really and , and , and went through and overcome those and at the end of the day you , you got the , you got really what you er what you were aiming for that er to get him to , to speak to these people between now and the next appointment so you could er , you could come back . |
| 30 | I think people felt we were aiming for this point , but we never had the opportunity to do it before . |