Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was looking for some short-cut to getting a complete description of who you are . |
| 2 | I was looking the other day , when I was looking for some of these things . |
| 3 | We were just walking away , and I was looking for some sort of rubbish container in which to put the bag of icing sugar , when we suddenly heard all those sirens going , and saw masses of policemen running into the park . |
| 4 | Celery seeds , I was looking for some of those yesterday . |
| 5 | I was hoping for some money , as I was saving frantically to buy the owl for myself . |
| 6 | While I was searching for some Arab property in the area , I had come across three young Palestinians standing beside a shabby food stall on the waterfront . |
| 7 | She was in pain , but she was taking it out on a complicated Fair Isle jumper that she was knitting for some nephew in Canada . |
| 8 | The prototype of the new Fast Afloat Boat 3 ( see pa 90 of this issue ) carried out her first service on 29 May while returning from Salcombe to Weymouth , where she was based for some days for familiarisation trials . |
| 9 | Did he think she was lying for some reason ? |
| 10 | She was longing for some peace and privacy , believing that now the wedding was over she would slip back into relative obscurity . |
| 11 | Such cheating may take the form of coaching or practice , but it may also take the subtle form of the chemistry teacher who asked the GCE student , ‘ are you sure that is what you want ? ’ when she was asking for some particular potion to complete an experiment in a practical examination , or the American teacher on the same 1987 visit who pointed to a particular answer in a workbook and asked the student to ‘ check that out ’ . |
| 12 | She said that she was waiting for some of her belongings to be sent on , but she 'd supply all her tax and National Insurance details as soon as they came . |
| 13 | It implies for example , it was created for some kind of purpose . |
| 14 | The University denied it was hoping for some form of financial benefit from the visit . |
| 15 | It was to last for some months yet . |
| 16 | It was adopted for some of the dailies too . |
| 17 | And even if a structural , timber can be dated , there is always the possibility that it was stored for some time between being felled and being used , or even that it was re-used timber salvaged from an earlier building . |
| 18 | The market might be held several days a week , and if , like the great Cotswold wood marts at Cirencester , Tetbury and so forth , it was noted for some speciality , business might be attracted from well outside the five-mile radius considered reasonable for day-to-day requirements in the Middle Ages . |
| 19 | He was speaking for some time and when he had finished he turned to his wife . |
| 20 | The Shah 's enemies saw the move differently , The fact that they was now lingering in the area , first in Egypt an now Morocco , rather than proceeding straight to the United States as announced , inevitably aroused the suspicion that he was hoping for some sort of repeat of 1953 . |
| 21 | She rather thought he was hoping for some reciprocal comment or gesture , but for the life of her , whether he thought it unforgivable or not , she just had to burst out laughing , and ‘ Lubor ! ’ she laughed . |
| 22 | Half wanting to quit , half determined to persevere he was caught for some moments , indecisive and forlorn . |
| 23 | An uncomfortable pause while he sat forward on the sofa holding his coffee cup in both hands and gazing into it as if he was waiting for some kind of chemical reaction . |
| 24 | It was very nearly a great voice and sometimes , when Gesner was on form , when he was forced for some reason to try hard , it was a great voice . |
| 25 | If Vecchi was the imitation hospital attendant , then he was booked for some free electricity at the State 's expense . |
| 26 | Coenwulf vigorously crushed the revolt in Kent and captured Eadberht , who was blinded and mutilated and taken in chains into Mercia ( ASC A , F , s.a. 796 ) where he was imprisoned for some years at Winchcombe . |
| 27 | He said he was coming for some gnocchi tonight . |
| 28 | While your brain is doing that it will be storing the words so that when you look at your sheet of nouns you will recall what was said for some while after it was actually said . |