Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] for this " in BNC.
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| 1 | She were knocking for this thing you know . |
| 2 | we were bidding for this ! |
| 3 | They were , they were videoing for this |
| 4 | If we were searching for this record , a comparison with the ‘ key ’ of the first block would be low , and of the second , high . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I think people felt we were aiming for this point , but we never had the opportunity to do it before . |
| 9 | If you were selecting for this year 's prize who would you put forward ? |
| 10 | The South African was looking for this patterning , to ensure they had not been foisted off with sand-blasted bottle-glass or the other principal substitute , cubic zirconia . |
| 11 | I was looking for this blooming half thing sticking out ! |
| 12 | ‘ Did he say anything about where he was going for this meeting ? ’ |
| 13 | Well that 's what I thought I was going for this morning as well as that one . |
| 14 | IBM was waiting for this decision and quickly became more aggressive at home and abroad . |
| 15 | ‘ On that Sunday evening , ’ Corbett asked , ‘ do you think Lady Eleanor was waiting for this lover ? |
| 16 | It was enough that the girl had made the shoes which she was wearing for this special occasion , she certainly had no place in this night of Emily 's triumph . |
| 17 | And so it was reasonable for Crane and Winters , who in the twenties was reaching for this style in his own poems , to call such writing ‘ imagist ’ . |
| 18 | Yeah but I , part of this comes from my first real , my only training at all and my first real experience in printing was working for this guy called Robert Dothard . |