Example sentences of "[coord] was [v-ing] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wastell bought a house in Bury before 1490 and was living there for much of the remainder of his life . |
| 2 | ‘ I found a flea market in Holborn and was walking around for three hours . |
| 3 | Then , without bothering to wait for her answer , he had swung round again and was heading imperiously for the group of gold-brocade-covered armchairs that stood in the curve of the huge bay window , overlooking the sun-burnished waters of Loch Lomond . |
| 4 | Gwendolen had had a distressing day and was making up for it with several glasses of this delightfully spicy lemonade . |
| 5 | Meanwhile the other seemed to have finished his duties and was waiting patiently for the movie-person to regain a most equitable composure . |
| 6 | The decline in the position of history in many of our schools is signified by the fact that it failed not only to be ranked as a core subject in the National Curriculum reinstated under the Education Reform Act of 1988 but was struggling hard for its survival on the list of foundation subjects as schools in the early 1990s tried to pour the National Curriculum quart into the school timetable pint pot . |