Example sentences of "[pers pn] was not [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was not fishing for compliments ! ’ |
| 2 | I was not dressed for climbing haystacks . |
| 3 | I could see from the diagram how the back of the work should look , what I was not prepared for was how the front of the work could look . |
| 4 | But I was not prepared for the raking over of academic arguments on defining poverty around when John Moore , then Secretary of State for Social Services , said poverty no longer existed . |
| 5 | I was not aiming for any distant target , and nor does natural selection . |
| 6 | I was not made for this , my Lord , my shepherd . |
| 7 | I was not asking for a debate and I want to make that quite clear . |
| 8 | But I was not going for a bus ride , I was looking for the gents . |
| 9 | Noticing that I was not provided for , he slapped his right-side coat pocket and , diving in , produced an opened packet of Gauloise Bleu , from which loose container he took out a cigarette . |
| 10 | I was n't looking for something to fill my life by having her , she just happened . |
| 11 | I was n't looking for a job because I had n't finished my training , but er a friend of mine has h her father is a G P in Loughton , and he erm was at a meeting with the senior partner of my practice , and they said do you know of anybody who 's interested in a partnership ? |
| 12 | I figured the last interview I 'd given them , right after the bombing of Flight 103 , had probably been the root cause of why my life had been turned inside out , and I was n't looking for any more trouble . |
| 13 | But I was n't looking for anything in it . |
| 14 | I was n't looking for trouble . |
| 15 | No , well , I was n't looking for it actually . |
| 16 | Needless to say , I was n't asked for a repeat performance ! |
| 17 | I was n't asked for any more information . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't like mine , but I was n't voting for him . |
| 19 | I did n't know what I expected ( chanting and rune casting , perhaps ) , but I was n't prepared for the tingling sensation affecting the areas of my body immediately underneath her small hands . |
| 20 | I was n't prepared for it . ’ |
| 21 | I was n't prepared for it . |
| 22 | I was n't prepared for what had happened to her in the year since I had last seen her . |
| 23 | I was n't prepared for it . |
| 24 | What I was n't prepared for was the jolt your appearance gave me . |
| 25 | What I was n't prepared for was my reaction to her rejection . |
| 26 | Over the past few years , the quality of in-service training courses for teachers has improved greatly , but I was n't prepared for the effort [ and financial resources ] that had obviously been put into the ‘ Quality in Action ’ workshop . |
| 27 | I was n't prepared for for it at all |
| 28 | Er erm and then later on I , I , I think maybe she did realize , you know , cos I said I was n't prepared for that and that has n't happened before . |
| 29 | I was n't driving for an hour , you were n't following me for either an hour or forty miles . |
| 30 | ‘ I was n't heading for the exit ! |