Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] were [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I were working for nothing really . |
| 2 | Come , I 'll spell it out for you — one thing only you were born for , and that 's to live fourteen years and then bring Undry here and hang it from these chains . |
| 3 | So you were looking for a psycho . |
| 4 | Erm so we were saying for example , and this is what we , we 'd actually come up with , the five days of the week , and the three categories of staff , I mean I 've just obviously put erm C L As are in either C L or E O really |
| 5 | And perhaps they were hoping for an innocence that was long past both of them … |
| 6 | It was 1973 and already we were preparing for the move to the States . |
| 7 | UN aid officials said yesterday they were prepared for a battle of wills with rebel Serbs in an attempt to get trucks loaded with emergency supplies through to starving Muslims in eastern Bosnia . |
| 8 | It was like , it was like a , like they were waiting for an offside or some there were just could n't believe , it was |
| 9 | I 'll get in touch , I 'll give her a ring , because we actually , we were looking erm out of the twelve of you altogether we were looking for six of you to actually have your feet washed on Maundy Thursday evening at the , at the , the mass at the service on Maundy Thursday evening . |
| 10 | And I said all the way through the film practically they were praying for rain . |
| 11 | One week later they were preparing for divorce . |
| 12 | They made employment for a workforce and were used in the work of other occupations ; but mainly they were used for recreation . |
| 13 | The big show-piece cinemas were built to pull in the fashionable trade but they were not designed for the exclusive use of a social elite ; rather they were provided for all those groups who were prepared to pay money for the movie entertainment that was being provided as part of the delights offered by the down-town city . |
| 14 | they have large pans , but even they were looking for some large pans ! |
| 15 | Surely they were interceding for the faithful on earth . |
| 16 | You had the split shifts and the down shifts and maybe we were called for er a |
| 17 | Yeah and then we were looking for some carpeting were n't we ? |
| 18 | This was then we were indenting for paperclips one by one in those days . |
| 19 | Maybe they were looking for traces of cement which would give the game away , but the excellent visitors ' centre explains that building materials such as cement were not available when the giant , Finn McCool , built the causeway . |
| 20 | Maybe they were going for another pastrami sandwich . |
| 21 | Then they were waiting for the fun to start . |
| 22 | But likewise we were looking for another project similar to what er Eric and I were involved in with the cage drilling machine . |
| 23 | But , more than that , his predilection for Neath players deprived the club of their own best talent so that when they would otherwise have been training for the league , instead they were training for the Five Nations Championship . |
| 24 | I think there 's some in I think I saw some instructions that ideally they were looking for about something like about four hours of lectures and about four hours of y'know kind of more tutorial like interactions . |