Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] preparing for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had adopted them while I was preparing for the desert . |
| 2 | Paul Stern , the vice-president of the Vienna Bridge Club , soon invited her to join the Austrian Ladies ' Team , which was preparing for the first European Women 's Teams Championship to be held in Brussels in 1935 . |
| 3 | If you were preparing for the paper to which the above chart refers , it would obviously be very foolish to enter the examination without a very full understanding of topics 1a , 4 and 5 ( six years out of seven ) , but it would be equally foolish to assume that you need pay no attention to 11 ( two years out of seven ) . |
| 4 | It was 1973 and already we were preparing for the move to the States . |
| 5 | And then it was erm erm which was er battered about a bit but we were preparing for the , the next move you see . |
| 6 | Down in Frome they were preparing for the worst ; on 23 February 1798 a meeting of the ‘ inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood of Frome ’ took place at the George Inn . |
| 7 | It was as if he were preparing for the day he would be a big man himself in this town and wanted everyone on his side , wanted them all to think of him as a customer . |
| 8 | Six years later , in 1868 , he needed the poems to complete a volume he was preparing for the printer . |
| 9 | And so , unable either to believe in the significance of what he was doing or to regard it with indifference as an empty formality , all the time he was preparing for the sacrament he was conscious of a feeling of discomfort and shame in taking part in something he did not understand , which was therefore , an inner voice told him , deceitful and wrong of him . |
| 10 | This went on for three hours while the rest of us were preparing for the move to Canjuers . |