Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In the other case , two neighbours were helping to care for an 88-year-old single woman ; service-providers were not happy with this care and were suspicious about the neighbours ' management of the woman 's finances , so she was also admitted to hospital under a guardianship order . |
| 2 | We need to shift to the procedure that we would probably have and a tell me if I 'm wrong I thought there was a sort of general agreement without it being sort of firmly agreed that we were going to go for a format of subject specific reports still coming to form tutor who would complete some sort of general report , is that |
| 3 | Were we on coke when we said , in the summer , that we were going to go for the sonnet ? ’ |
| 4 | There was a man who spoke a bit of English and he said they were going to send for a doctor , but I told them you suffered from fits and you 'd be all right . ’ |
| 5 | Already early on this Saturday morning he and his pupils were beginning to prepare for the banquet in the Imperial kitchens . |
| 6 | He strode to the reception desk , made a brisk enquiry and then came straight over to where Patrick and Chris were standing waiting for the lift . |
| 7 | She felt the shrugging of his shoulders as if he were trying to forget for a little while the fear that never seemed quite to leave him . |
| 8 | The Headmaster was helping prepare for the grand event and was so confident it would be a success , he had contacted a specialist to come to take the Bookman away when caught . |
| 9 | The things she was going to need for the baby ! |
| 10 | The vigil in the longhouses was going to last for a day , and perhaps for part of the next night at least . |
| 11 | I was going to ask for a couple of hours off and then he says , oh do n't bother ! |
| 12 | We 'd had dinner and were on our way back to the hotel when I told him I was going to go for a walk before going to bed . |
| 13 | You really think I was going to fall for a line like that and hand Barry over to you ? ’ |
| 14 | If the Formalist definition of its object was going to allow for the specificity of literary studies , the Formalists regarded it as necessarily entailing the exclusion of all mimetic and expressive definitions of literature . |
| 15 | And there was a point where I was going to look for a job , drift off and forget about it . |
| 16 | Also , he was not going to accept it , he was going to look for a real motive for this murder . |
| 17 | He said he was going to look for a radiator at a scrap yard somewhere passed Akers Way . |
| 18 | ‘ We were scared the bell was going to ring for the end of classes , ’ says Sylvain Souillon . |
| 19 | They supposed that one sex was going to care for the eggs , but that selection on both sexes would make them , if possible , desert the eggs and thus force the other sex into doing the work . |
| 20 | I asked who was going to pay for the call . |
| 21 | When the respondent returned he was challenged but insisted that he was going to pay for the goods . |
| 22 | He was challenged by the warehouseman but he assured him that he was going to pay for the goods . |
| 23 | When he was challenged by the warehouseman , he assured him that he was going to pay for the goods . |
| 24 | And so , if it came to that , would George , whose only worry when the tree toppled was who was going to pay for the damage . |
| 25 | He was going to try for a buy-out . |
| 26 | Er I told him I was going to try for the Co-op . |
| 27 | The train was beginning to slow for the next station . |
| 28 | He had already won the Forte PGA Seniors ' two years in a row and was aiming to qualify for the US Senior Tour last year . |
| 29 | He fought back the word ‘ sorry ’ , which was threatening to erupt for the third time . |
| 30 | Mr Reynolds said his government was continuing to press for the negotiating between loyalist and nationalist politicians to be renewed as soon as possible . |