Example sentences of "[pron] he [was/were] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir John Wolfenden , the then vice-chancellor of Reading University , was chosen to be its Chairman , a job which he was to hold for the three years that the Committee took to produce its Report . |
| 2 | Philip of France had sent a force of Brabançons to help his brother-in-law , the opening shot in a campaign which he was to wage for the next thirty years . |
| 3 | Understandably nervous , and no doubt a little distracted and distraught both with his loved one 's untimely departure and that which he was planning for himself , he resorted without a thought to his habitual method of calming himself down , and lit a Marlboro . |
| 4 | It is perhaps not by chance that the first Greek book to speak extensively about the Jews was written by an adviser of Ptolemy I in the years in which he was campaigning for the conquest of Palestine . |
| 5 | There a new opera commission was discussed with Domenico Guardasoni , manager of the National Theatre ; this may have been an embryonic version of La clemenza di Tito , Mozart 's last opera , which he was to write for Prague two years later . |
| 6 | Then , while under contract to both RKO and David O Selznick , he was cast by director William Wellman as a tough army captain in The Story of GI Joe ( 1945 ) , for which he was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar . |
| 7 | The movie was quickly forgotten but director Martin Scorsese remembered Pesci and hired him to play Joey La Motta in Raging Bull , for which he was nominated for an Oscar . |
| 8 | He directed the Orchard Gallery in Derry , ( 1978–84 ) for which he was nominated for the Turner prize . |
| 9 | Endill learnt he had been in the army but was told to leave after forgetting who he was fighting for . |
| 10 | He was told to say just who he was working for , or he would have ammonia poured onto the blindfold . |
| 11 | ‘ We know who he was working for , anyway . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Perhaps it is saying something when I tell you he was aiming for the optician 's and ended up in the carpet shop , ’ he said . |
| 13 | I was the one he was looking for , and he was the one I was looking for . ’ |
| 14 | I knew then that what I was telling him he was hearing for the first time . |
| 15 | I told him he was looking for the mother he 'd never had , but of course he would n't listen . |
| 16 | Hagans told him he was waiting for his girlfriend . |
| 17 | ‘ When he told me he was panning for gold , I simply did n't believe it . |
| 18 | He was fifty when his rise to prominence began soon after the accession of Amenophis III , whom he was to serve for thirty years before he died at the age of eighty . |
| 19 | PRESIDENT F W de Klerk last night announced the unconditional release of eight prominent political prisoners , notably Walter Sisulu , 77 , former secretary-general of the African National Congress and the closest political associate and oldest friend of Nelson Mandela , with whom he was jailed for life in 1964 . |
| 20 | Heydrich did not need to file a flight plan — had no intention of so doing-but he strolled to the control tower to tell them he was going for a spin . |
| 21 | Soon as you said you ca n't do it he were gone for dust ! |
| 22 | We knew what he was looking for and it was n't there . |
| 23 | Often at this time of day , when he felt the day 's journey should be ending or reaching a destination , but knowing that it was not , knowing that what he was looking for probably happened after everybody else had gone home , he wished that he could end his days walking at the edge of a sea or a lake so big that you could n't see its other shore . |
| 24 | Horowitz was not even looking at her : opening his executive case , he lifted the base , sorted through several documents , found what he was looking for and shut the case . |
| 25 | He decided to go on to the second and third caves , determined to find what he was looking for . |
| 26 | Edouard knew what he was looking for , a Picasso , a Matisse , whose medium was not paint but rare stones and precious metals ; the genius who would be the linchpin of his whole enterprise . |
| 27 | Other methods of meeting the organisation 's needs were considered , but Mr Nabakov knew what he was looking for : ‘ I wanted a nuts and bolts accounting system , like Platinum , and it is also highly flexible . |
| 28 | I do n't know what he was looking for , some guilt , some shame , some scandal , I do n't know — but it just is n't there , I suppose . |
| 29 | No movement that he could see , with or without the aid of the binoculars — but then he did n't really know what he was looking for , whilst Windeler had seemed far more assured . |
| 30 | Reynolds had only the vaguest memory of his search of the Evergreens , but he thought he could find what he was looking for . |