Example sentences of "[Wh det] i [was/were] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This result is exactly what I was looking for , ’ Prost said . |
| 2 | ‘ This is what I was looking for , ’ he said , and opened it . |
| 3 | In this I may be vulnerable , for I was on the lookout for miracles and it was while watching Nancy , listening to her and eventually breaking my own icy shield and talking to her , that I came close to seeing what I was looking for . |
| 4 | I knew exactly what I was looking for , they had to be here somewhere , the one and only pair of knickers left uncontaminated in that disastrous load at the launderette , the stuff that had got washed along with that bargain-price bright-pink non-fast Indian-cotton mini-skirt from C&A . |
| 5 | They had already found what I was looking for , traces of gun oil , some brown dog hairs and minute traces of dead flesh . ’ |
| 6 | Finally , at one of the smaller institutes , one on the Restoration of Palaces , I found what I was looking for . |
| 7 | I had no idea what I was looking for and certainly no intention of starting on the filing cabinets . |
| 8 | ‘ I did n't want the Russians on my track if they knew what I was looking for — just think what it would mean if it turned up now ? |
| 9 | By the way , I 've found what I was looking for . |
| 10 | … they brought their homework in and made a list of … aspects like their use of materials , time , care , etc … so they knew what I was looking for , and then I spoke to each child individually and asked ‘ What would you give this piece out of ten ’ and so we obviously had to define our assessment objectives . |
| 11 | He knew what I was looking for ; and he indicated that he might be able to help . |
| 12 | Finally , turning a corner , I saw what I was looking for . |
| 13 | I needed a new designer and I had a very strong instinct that you were precisely what I was looking for . |
| 14 | Sure enough I found what I was looking for : a concealed pocket inside the quilted jerkin . |
| 15 | I knew roughly what I was looking for and I found it on the floor under a seat frame from which the seat had been removed . |
| 16 | I was n't too sure what I was looking for , so I was n't disappointed at not finding anything obvious . |
| 17 | I just wondered , it , it what I was looking for , it he is the world championship or something like that . |
| 18 | We goes up town the following week then to get and I forget what I was looking for , oh it was I was looking for your blouse |
| 19 | No , I would n't say I did , and I would n't say that 's what I was looking for , particularly , because again I mean it 's a much abused notion that perhaps that class disappears in postwar Britain , I think that 's a political issue that was an attempt to make it look as if class was disappearing , class differences rather , but I think there is a lot of evening out , there 's not the stark differences of the quality of life of furnishings that you would have found say in homes before the war . |
| 20 | ‘ Perhaps that 's what I was apologizing for . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Not exactly what I was aiming for . |
| 23 | Oh that 's what I was aiming for actually . |
| 24 | than what I was paying for it . |
| 25 | So when I went , I had to go again on Monday I took just my purse in my pocket and thought oh this is bit , cos I mean I knew what I was going for , you know , were n't looking round for anything in particular and I thought this is bit risky ! |
| 26 | This is just what I was claiming for authority . |
| 27 | Absolute total recall — it was Portia 's famous ‘ The quality of mercy is not strained ’ from The Merchant of Venice — and mercy was what I was asking for , literally , at that moment . |
| 28 | However , I pointed out that what I was asking for was no more than would comprise a normal police station in a provincial town and that there were many economies to be made by giving up our offices in central London . |
| 29 | Well that 's what I was waiting for were n't it ? |