Example sentences of "he [was/were] [v-ing] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manciple sounded as if he were apologizing for the other man 's rudeness . |
| 2 | It was as if he were preparing for the day he would be a big man himself in this town and wanted everyone on his side , wanted them all to think of him as a customer . |
| 3 | Crossing the room as though he were heading for the wardrobe , Angel Four suddenly changed direction , took two swift paces to his right , seized the curtains with both hands and jerked them open . |
| 4 | Ahead and around him as he drifted forward , the melodic light was increasing gradually , growing stronger and brighter as though he were heading for the source . |
| 5 | As he was leaving for the flour-mill , she put up her mouth to be kissed . |
| 6 | It arrived just before he was leaving for the United States ( another example of his self-forgetfulness , as he had not mentioned this to me ) , and he was not due to return until the end of July . |
| 7 | And then he was leaving for the Devon summer school . |
| 8 | ‘ Perhaps it is saying something when I tell you he was aiming for the optician 's and ended up in the carpet shop , ’ he said . |
| 9 | For one terrible second she thought he was reaching for the knife . |
| 10 | He was reaching for the decanter . |
| 11 | I knew then that what I was telling him he was hearing for the first time . |
| 12 | Now he was appealing for the confidence of politicians , not for the confidence of the people . |
| 13 | He was looking for the bowl of eggs he had seen earlier . |
| 14 | ‘ He was looking for the environment he knew … straight hair , no sunglasses , a good grey suit , collar and tie . ’ |
| 15 | Hershman says his movie is inspired by Jean-Luc Godard 's Breathless , and that he was looking for the new Jean-Paul Belmondo to play the lead . |
| 16 | Sutton pleaded his innocence and said : ‘ I think he was looking for the dive . |
| 17 | yes it 's Chernobyl , he was looking for the real word there , a nuclear what ? |
| 18 | Pascoe thought about it ; he was looking for the clue he knew he must have missed . |
| 19 | Although he did n't say so , Lyn knew he was looking for the marks of Peach 's claws . |
| 20 | I told him he was looking for the mother he 'd never had , but of course he would n't listen . |
| 21 | He was looking for the Douglas . |
| 22 | It was said with a kind of embarrassed formality as if he , not Dalgliesh , were the host and he was apologizing for the unexpected absence of the hostess . |
| 23 | Having played so well for the first two rounds and then the first three holes of the third , by which time he was tieing for the lead with Parry at 10 under par , Woosnam came to grief immediately after the Saturday storm . |
| 24 | He discovered that night , in what has been called his ‘ Luftwaffe ’ speech , that his was not a voice in the wilderness ; instead , he was speaking for the man on the Clapham omnibus . |
| 25 | Nourse LJ thought it worth mentioning Lord Blackburn 's comment , based on Blackstone , that ‘ the sheriff also was bound to raise the hue and cry , and call out the posse comitatus of the county whenever it was necessary for any police purposes ; in so doing he was acting for the Crown ’ . |
| 26 | He may well have believed that the factionalization inherent in Woodville control of the heir posed such a threat to political stability that his own rule was preferable — he may have persuaded himself , in fact , that he was acting for the good of the realm . |
| 27 | He may well have believed that the factionalization inherent in Woodville control of the heir posed such a threat to political stability that his own rule was preferable — he may have persuaded himself , in fact , that he was acting for the good of the realm . |
| 28 | He was searching for the right doctor — he meant a doctor for his soul — and kept falling into the hands of quacks . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | God only knew how he had tried to replace her in his thoughts and in his heart — striking relationships with one woman after another , lurching from one crisis to the next , building his business with her in mind … driving himself like a man demented and amassing a fortune , yet knowing all the time that he was striving for the impossible . |