Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv prt] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But while they were gearing up for the Hi-de-Hi job , Wirral 's Arrowe Park and Clatterbridge hospitals went short of clean bedlinen . |
| 2 | Well if you remember that the Jarrow marches and the general strike were n't very many years erm you know be behind the preparations that were going on for the second world war . |
| 3 | So that 's when I was eating my dinner , when they were going up for the cup and she fell asleep , well you know with the wine in you , here was my eyes all out for the count . |
| 4 | Who were going in for the exam and I were n't allowed to help them . |
| 5 | Patients were flocking in for the new treatment . |
| 6 | I think that year we were making up for the limitations of the one before . |
| 7 | The taxi driver who left us at the station , enchanted by the idea that we were setting off for the source of the Nile , refused to accept any fare . |
| 8 | Others , their duties finished , were settling down for the night on their pallets in front of the fires . |
| 9 | At the time , Belinda had merely thought she was resting up for the party . |
| 10 | At about the same time as Jayne and Dave were tying the knot , creative director Nadia Marks was limbering up for the 20th anniversary of her wedding to writer husband Graham , whom she met at art school . |
| 11 | Andy Norman , who 's a sort of Sam Goldwyn of our athletics , spotted this key to his character years ago during a wait at Helsinki airport where Christie was hanging around for the last plane on a ticket about one grade up from cargo . |
| 12 | In his final statements in the Venezuelan capital Caracas , his last stop , Bush repeated the central message of the tour , that a " new age " was opening up for the Americas . |
| 13 | He said he was going in for the Spot the Talent competition at the Easter Fete . |
| 14 | Afraid she might doze off if she gave in to temptation and lay down on the bed , she sat down instead on the room 's only chair , and picked up a book , absorbing not a single word as she waited for the sounds that would mean he was turning in for the night . |
| 15 | At dusk , passing through the countryside , everything was slowing down for the night . |
| 16 | They had fetched him for Christmas and he was staying on for the New Year . |
| 17 | Thinking how quiet she 'd gone when he said he was coming up for the funeral and how she 'd seemed to withdraw into herself . |
| 18 | Morrison , whose girlfriend was travelling out for the Hong Kong tournament , reckoned that he sustained the injury when he turned quickly during Scotland 's opening tie against Australian Capital Territory in Canberra last week . |
| 19 | He was closing in for the kill . |
| 20 | Simon was reaching out for the drum . |
| 21 | Around me the camp was settling down for the night , bricks securing groundsheets , tent flaps tied tight , kerosene lamps hissing away their shadows . |
| 22 | As I left the next shift was settling in for the day , writing up diaries , reading novels and brewing up endless cups of tea . |
| 23 | Other bits stayed where they were , making her look like something Special Effects was trying out for the next Dr Who series . |
| 24 | Another man in another village was setting off for the fields , his hoe over his shoulder . |
| 25 | When they arrived back at the Incident Room the little printer was locking up for the night . |
| 26 | I followed him out of the City until I was convinced he was packing up for the day . |