Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] for the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smooth-talking Pat O'Rourke said companies were clamouring for the rights to screen the yarn , Lifeboys . |
| 2 | Barnes and club-mate Ben Clarke were appearing for the Barbarians against Australia at Twickenham while their Bath colleagues were sinking 9–8 at Blundellsands to Second Division Waterloo in the third round on Saturday . |
| 3 | The two girls looked at each other , as if they were searching for the similarities . |
| 4 | They were looking for the principles of organisation , how it is that we organise things like dots into a meaningful whole Why is it that we tend to see two lines crossing in the middle rather one two than two V's ? |
| 5 | If one were looking for the reasons for the present situation , does my right hon. Friend agree that it has been the departure of the building societies and other lenders from the traditional concept of not lending more than 75 per cent . |
| 6 | Well , if you were looking for the qualities Elinor had displayed in their years together , you could probably only have done better by marrying a man-eating tiger . |
| 7 | It was n't as if they were heading for the hills . |
| 8 | Do n't ask me to pluck figures out of the air , but it was a reasonable rent , and they were paying for the rates , and their electricity , and their water supply , and their sewage disposal , on permanent sites . |
| 9 | No one would object if they were paying for the facilities themselves . |
| 10 | Two large motor horse-boxes were waiting for the horses , which were unloaded down and loaded up ramps . |
| 11 | yeah but he do n't get done , he does n't get done , that is the problem , the kids do n't , I 've written a letter to Mr yesterday , why they were waiting for the games teacher he was hitting Geoffrey and he gave him a dead leg , kneeing him in the leg , he said before drama , he 's got drama tomorrow he says he hates drama because the teacher takes no notice , he said one week Stuart was hitting me with a stick and the teacher just said calm down you boys , and he was being hit with a stick oh no and this I find totally disgusting and I feel like complaining about this , one of the teachers and I do n't know whether its drama yeah I think it was drama and |
| 12 | Up the road at Selfridges 500 people were waiting for the doors to open . |
| 13 | While they were waiting for the targets to be set up , Burun took Rostov aside . |
| 14 | And the stone seats beside the fire would be replaced with benches , once Cameron brought the rest of the spare timber he had promised from the linen mill he was building for the Flemyngs at Aberfeldy . |
| 15 | But because the scandal broke at the time when one of the most popular pastimes in Yugoslavia was hunting for the scalps of former politicians , the moment the British press reported the involvement of Yugoslav diplomats , Tito 's family and the Yugoslav National Army , the silver became interesting . |
| 16 | I first started to write at school and I 'd charge a few pence for each story — you should have seen what I was writing for the girls . |
| 17 | Lee was looking for the bits of the fence that were buried in the grass . |
| 18 | But I was not going for a bus ride , I was looking for the gents . |
| 19 | Although he did n't say so , Lyn knew he was looking for the marks of Peach 's claws . |
| 20 | Loretta was paying for the tickets at the cash desk when she felt a hand on her shoulder . |
| 21 | But the Queen , horrified to learn that her favourite son 's marriage was heading for the rocks , could not utter the words of comfort the agonised redhead most needed to hear . |
| 22 | It was a moonlight night and from 11pm Ted was waiting for the platelayers ' arrival as their company would liven his long shift . |
| 23 | I remember excusing this by saying that I was waiting for the police and that nothing should be touched until they had come . |
| 24 | The airfield 's codename was " Vino " and was near Epernay , the only thing I can remember of that occasion was that we got lost and had to ask for a radio steer from the ground station , We were anxious to get back there because the next evening Gracie Fields was performing for the troops in a local theatre , Of the visit to Prague ( which we never found ) . |
| 25 | She was reaching for the glasses already . |
| 26 | I was making for the hills , and hoping to come back through Peterchurch . ’ |
| 27 | No , our Whelan is Noel Whelan , a lad who was playing for the youngsters just last season . |
| 28 | When he asked her why , she shyly confessed that she was pining for the snows of her native land . |
| 29 | She was feeling for the lumps of coal in her fuel store , to bring them in to light the fire in snowy weather . |
| 30 | ‘ So why did Urquhart keep telling me Mills probably was working for the Russians ? ’ |