Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [v-ing] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ari Vatanen has come second and Colin McRae sixth … a good performance … but the British fans were hoping for more as Tim Russon now reports |
| 2 | Maybe scum gangs were uniting for some big upward raid , eh ? |
| 3 | In the mid-Eighties , when Bacons were selling for half a million dollars , he did it again by selling a Bacon Pope belonging to Dufferin for over $1 million . |
| 4 | Real wages were rising for those in , work , and living standards improved markedly in the Midlands and the South-East , serving both to diminish the political impact of unemployment and to increase the differentiation of the country . |
| 5 | It was not that both sides were preparing for some future war to deter the other side . |