Example sentences of "[noun] were [v-ing] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of May Dorothy could write to her brother Richard that ‘ William has now some poems in the Bristol press ’ ; and by mid-September , just as Coleridge and Wordsworth were preparing to leave for Germany , the Lyrical Ballads were at last ready to be offered to an indifferent public . |
| 2 | The Guardian of June 20 reported that 20,000 Iraqi Kurds in a transit camp near the border in Silopi were refusing to leave for Iraq without guarantees of their safety , and the Turkish authorities reported that a further 12,200 refugees from Iraq were still accommodated in other camps inside Turkey . |
| 3 | POLICE , forensic and bomb squad officers were continuing to search for clues last night at a gas depot hit by an explosion and fire which had all the hallmarks of a terrorist attack . |
| 4 | In the other case , two neighbours were helping to care for an 88-year-old single woman ; service-providers were not happy with this care and were suspicious about the neighbours ' management of the woman 's finances , so she was also admitted to hospital under a guardianship order . |
| 5 | In addition , his solicitors were continuing to act for him and could , if they had wished , have obtained a copy of the committal order from the court . |
| 6 | In particular , they felt that enterprises in both Britain and Germany were having to cater for increasingly small market niches rather than for homogeneous mass markets . |
| 7 | Already early on this Saturday morning he and his pupils were beginning to prepare for the banquet in the Imperial kitchens . |
| 8 | Dicke and Peebles were preparing to look for this radiation when Penzias and Wilson heard about their work and realized that they had already found it . |
| 9 | ‘ And I was even more astounded when I heard what Norwich were going to pay for him . |
| 10 | Preston and Wigan were having to apply for re-election having finished in the bottom two places of the Pontins League 's second division . |