Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] for a new " in BNC.

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1 President of the Board of Trade Michael Heseltine denied Tory MPs were looking for a new leader , saying : ‘ We know that so long as we keep our nerve and pursue policies that are important we can come through .
2 You probably remember , erm , a stimulating little book published last year by Frank on the Impulse to Philanthropy , where certainly in his nineteenth century analysis of the growth of philanthropy , he saw to main things , evangelicalism , which er , meant that people were going out looking for converts , and therefore doing good social work on the way , and the growth of the women 's movement , in the sense that women otherwise unemployed were looking for a new area of activity to get into .
3 Erm , so what were doing is were , we hope were waiting for a new prisoner to be allocated to us , erm , and perhaps we could , perhaps we could , perhaps we can write and remind you think , think we should do that ?
4 Whether they were going for a new place , or staying , the hired hands were all given the day off to attend the Hirings .
5 He had just won the Cannes Palme d'Or for Mission , and was looking for a new challenge .
6 Having coached Waikato in the New Zealand provincial championship for some years , Ross was looking for a new challenge and the opportunity to come to Northampton came at exactly the right moment .
7 She had announced that she would stay in Paris until October , but by October she was looking for a new place to rent , now deeply involved with Modi and unable to leave .
8 Slater says : ‘ I was looking for a new challenge and I am confident that this club will win honours . ’
9 Staff were advised that the company was looking for a new property when the search for a new suitable area began and when Aldermaston had been identified as the place where the new offices were to be built .
10 But Mrs Rundle , the mother-hen , was looking for a new post and the house was to be sold over their heads , and the furniture , too .
11 But in 1940 , nobody was looking for a new type of cooker .
12 Tilda had at first elaborated her story , saying that her mother was looking for a new Daddy , but her observation , quick as a bird 's flight , showed her that this was going too far , and she added that she and her sister prayed nightly to Our Lady of Fatima for her father 's return .
13 It was looking for a new programme and trying to consolidate its confused followers .
14 She was listening for a new noise , the noise she thought she 'd heard on the way out to Chateaubriand : the irregular tapping of the axis lock crystal , jumping in its housing .
15 He told me how , at one point in his life , presumably in the 1930s , that he was searching for a new purpose and direction in his life ; one offering greater personal fulfilment .
16 ‘ The personnel officer insisted I saw this 41-year-old woman when I was interviewing for a new secretary , ’ says Gina , a 30-year-old manager in a retail company .
17 He never found anything ; when I left he was waiting for a new pair to be brought up from Auckland , and wondering if the insurance company would cough up .
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