Example sentences of "[vb past] to be [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Make out we have n't seen him , ’ Otley said as he pretended to be searching for something in the grass . |
| 2 | Instead he went over to one of the shelves and pretended to be searching for a book . |
| 3 | Wounded FMLN guerrillas in San Salvador board a plane , believed to be bound for Chile , after they were evacuated from the Mexican Embassy , which they occupied to demand safe passage |
| 4 | A Supreme Court judge , Fabiola Borrero , from the western city of Cali , was shot dead on Sept. 22 by gunmen believed to be working for the Cali drug cartel . |
| 5 | Pop was no longer a community of youth as it had been in the sixties , nor a means of changing society , but a meaningless marketing exercise which deserved to be exposed for the charade that it was . |
| 6 | I would n't have done , if I had n't felt you deserved to be thanked for looking after the dogs . |
| 7 | The result , it now appears , was that local administrators , with important defensive budgets to collect and administer , took advantage of the experience thus gained to develop their own powers in particular when , over a period of some decades , taxes originally levied for short periods came to be collected for longer and longer periods , until they became all but permanently established as part of the regular income of a town or city . |
| 8 | In time , the system came to be criticized for being too narrowly focused on land use ( to the exclusion of social planning ) , as well as for being slow and inflexible . |
| 9 | But the term ‘ canon ’ was being used for the standard of authentic teaching given by the baptismal confession of faith well before it came to be used for the list of accepted books . |
| 10 | They also came to be blamed for the ills of the locality , including the use of sweated labour by unscrupulous employers , rack-renting by slum land-lords , and the increased crime rate . |
| 11 | He seemed to be bound for such great things … |
| 12 | Several fellow players asked her to take them for a ride as pillion passengers but that treat seemed to be reserved for members of her regular entourage , though I suppose it could be argued she took Steffi Graf for a ride in the semi-finals . |
| 13 | The areas of experience seemed to be reserved for describing areas such as arts and applied crafts ( aesthetic and creative experience ) , and history , geography , economics , social and environmental studies ( social and political education ) . |
| 14 | It seemed to be run for the benefit of chaps who wanted a good time — not chaps who wanted to re-create their public schools . |
| 15 | As always , he seemed to be apologizing for everything he said or did . |
| 16 | John marvelled at the way it seemed to be thinking for itself . |
| 17 | Mick still seemed to be looking for an excuse to return home , so I chose not to make an issue of the blunder . |
| 18 | Each one must have held memories of her father , but she seemed to be looking for something special . |
| 19 | The shape outside had stopped , and seemed to be looking for something . |
| 20 | This may reflect a difference in emphasis in that parents seemed to be looking for information about their child 's overall character and behaviour ( eg ‘ good at sharing toys ’ ) whereas staff seemed to report specific good behaviour ( eg ‘ She 's done a lovely painting this morning ’ or ‘ He ate his dinner up nicely today ’ ) . |
| 21 | It seemed to be looking for something . |
| 22 | He seemed to be looking for something . |
| 23 | No one seemed to be looking for it . |
| 24 | ‘ Hullo , Penelope , I 've been doing the flowers , ’ she said , as if an explanation of her emerging from the dining room with leaves seemed to be called for . |
| 25 | Few , indeed , seemed to be listening for sense at all . |
| 26 | In speaking to others , he seemed to be listening for , watching , her reactions . |
| 27 | Her whole body seemed to be listening for him . |
| 28 | Nigel seemed to be lost for words for a moment . |
| 29 | He came down from the knoll and seemed to be searching for somebody . |
| 30 | He seemed to be searching for something more — to say , but then repeated , " Yes , very nice . |