Example sentences of "and [was/were] [v-ing] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Defa studios in the East Berlin suburb of Badelsburg are no longer the crumbling , work-shy , institutionalized dump they were two years ago when we began this project and were looking for a home for it . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , Microsoft ( who , incidentally , were then engaged in legal battle with Apple ) had bought a PostScript clone vendor , Bauer Technologies , and were looking for a font technology for OS/2 's Presentation Manager . |
| 3 | It was that sort of occasion 500 women , many of them wearing posh hats and even posher outfits that they 'd bought for weddings and were longing for a chance to wear again . |
| 4 | Supporters of both sides could enjoy such matches and the crowd two years later back up in Scotland was enormous and was hoping for a repeat of the excitement . |
| 5 | He confesses that at the age of 40 he had reached ‘ the proverbial midlife crisis ’ and was searching for a different way of life . |
| 6 | She had innate sense of good movement and was searching for a system embodying those principles which fulfilled her concept of the art of movement and teaching its technique . |
| 7 | He had just won the Cannes Palme d'Or for Mission , and was looking for a new challenge . |
| 8 | She had just arrived and was looking for a cheap hotel . |
| 9 | He was born to be King and was looking for a princess . |
| 10 | He had just been de-mobbed from the Army , intended to go up to Oxford to work for his Doctorate in the autumn , and was looking for a house for his mother who had recently been divorced . |
| 11 | Earlier that year he had met a merchant from London who had money to spare and was looking for a likely speculation and Harry , being in the right place at the right time for once , had sold him the idea of investing in a privateering cruise to the Americas . |
| 12 | I currently had a Cavalier SRi and was looking for a GSi . |
| 13 | Well , she was actually called Marian Evans and was looking for a masculine name to writer under . |
| 14 | However , he played far better yesterday and was heading for a 67 until he unexpectedly dropped shots at both the 16th and 17th . |
| 15 | By now Caroline had left the London college and was working for a glossy magazine in Cardiff . |
| 16 | Zelah had taken out one tray of dishes and was returning for a second . |