Example sentences of "[pron] we were [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A contact in Spain has managed to acquire a scarce publication which we were looking for , and has given the Library a copy . |
| 2 | He made sure we appreciated who we were playing for — our country and our fans . |
| 3 | ‘ She 'll have told you we were coming for the boat . |
| 4 | We that 's where are you now , the number to ring if you know the whereabouts of anyone we were looking for . |
| 5 | They invited the Spanish and local press to watch us train , which is exactly the opposite of what we were hoping for . |
| 6 | That 's what we were hoping for . ’ |
| 7 | Well I suppose it is basically but no flute that 's what we were looking for . |
| 8 | What we were looking for in Committee , and what the children 's legal aid centre was looking for , was a declaration that the Government 's signature to the United Nation convention on the rights of the child would be enshrined in the spirit of law in this country and that there would be independent panels that could look after the welfare of the children to ensure that their welfare was the primary consideration . |
| 9 | So what we were looking for was something more er erm |
| 10 | Anybody get what we were looking for in the , yes you should ? |
| 11 | Well obviously the delivery name and address is important and the consignments , so you did n't get that wrong but there was , what we were looking for as well a full written declaration of the nature of contents of any consignment containing dangerous infested , contaminated |
| 12 | Number five , if the clients wish to switch testing units in any fund into units of any other fund , it 's a well written question is n't it ? the switch will be made from A , was what we were looking for , bid to bid in both funds , bid to bid , and that generally applies on all our stuff , so it 's quite worthwhile knowing . |
| 13 | I just wanted to come back on er David Potter 's assertion that we were looking for a a higher allocation under I five and I I thought I 'd specifically covered that point by saying that that was n't what we were looking for because that would n't address the sort of development we 're talking about here . |
| 14 | But I think the ingenuity of chemists and scientists and physicists and astronomers is such that , yes , we could do it — if we knew what we were looking for and had the right ideas . |
| 15 | We knew what we were looking for and we knew if we looked long enough and hard enough we would find it , but there were times when we thought perhaps it is n't out there . |
| 16 | There were very few firm commitments , the language is very much that of exploring , attempting , trying , hoping , when what we were looking for was a clear legislative framework . |
| 17 | Our job was to write the military communiques , the leaflets explaining our political programme and what we were fighting for when we moved into a new municipality , prepare tapes for the occasions we occupied the local radio stations in San Vicente and Zacatecoluca , monitor the international and national radio stations we could reach , and produce the mural newspapers for all the sub-zones of the region . |