Example sentences of "[subord] we were [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as accountants , although we were respected for our expertise , like lawyers , our work was entirely reactive rather than proactive , ’ says Mr Riley . |
| 2 | If we were searching for this record , a comparison with the ‘ key ’ of the first block would be low , and of the second , high . |
| 3 | We were in a sort of back room , and at one point we gave a particularly loud whoop at a particularly long word and a waiter looked in to see if we were calling for anything and then went away . |
| 4 | ‘ If we were to go for full indexation , ’ said Jacek Kuron , the Labour Minister , ‘ there would be a mountain of money on the market leading to enormous price increases , with all the dangers that implies , especially for the poor . ’ |
| 5 | The truth is , if we were looking for people to blame for the fact that the once-great club are now Division Three favourites , referee Brian Coddington would come a long way down the list . |
| 6 | Right if we were looking for a fifteenth , say we were looking for a fifteenth what would make |
| 7 | When at 10.45am we had resigned ourselves to a day of swimming and sunbathing a farmer pulled up and asked , in German , if we were waiting for him . |
| 8 | And the team will cry out for joy as well , because we were created for this community , and in a way we have been looking for it all our lives . |
| 9 | Of course we were very disappointed because we were geared for it , and we were prepared to play even to two or three people in the audience . |
| 10 | Erm , what I 'm , I 've just arranged somebody to redo our speaker syste our original system with tannoys , we blew our tannoys speakers , and I did n't bother getting them replaced because we were going for a rock crowd so we just used Bernie and Nigel |
| 11 | Here we had a man who we knew had serious problems that constituted a danger to himself and others , and we sat back , simply because we were waiting for him to admit he had a problem . ’ |
| 12 | While we were waiting for the chillim to be filled and passed around , Kalchu pointed out a conical heap of stones at the base of a great cedar tree near the edge of the glade . |
| 13 | While we were waiting for our ferry to come we went and visited the Mary Rose war ship . |
| 14 | So I bought her some fruit pastilles again just while we were waiting for the train , but funnily enough , the last few times we 've been at the station , Bobby |
| 15 | Since we were staffed for a complement of 135 trainees , our first move would have to be to make staff redundant . |
| 16 | That was one of the many occasions when we were sent for after supper and beaten by the Library . |
| 17 | One day I had one of the prototype JS1s ; it was an ash body and that did n't work out too well when we were looking for woods . |
| 18 | yeah , well I , Mike says I brought that one home when we were looking for a hall instead , but I said no I said it was one very similar , but he said we could n't have it because erm |
| 19 | But in this quarry now in when we were working for everybody was on the same bonus , you know they was they were all partners . |
| 20 | ‘ My name 's Stirling , ’ he said , almost as though we were meeting for the first time outside his Club in London . |
| 21 | An early goal by the visitors made it look as though we were heading for our nineteenth League defeat of the season , but thanks to my inspirational coaching from the touchline , new boy Kev Knowles levelled the score on the stroke of half-time . |
| 22 | Day four started early — 5am — as we were heading for Galilee . |
| 23 | ‘ I am certain , ’ she said that night , as we were preparing for bed . |