Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] for the right [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You were waiting for the right person . ’ |
| 2 | His only choice at present was to wait for the right moment to play his hand . |
| 3 | She was stumbling for the right words . |
| 4 | She could see that he was searching for the right words , the very thing that would describe what he had felt , what he had experienced at that moment . |
| 5 | He was searching for the right doctor — he meant a doctor for his soul — and kept falling into the hands of quacks . |
| 6 | I was waiting for the right moment to find out just how deeply your were involved with Elise . |