Example sentences of "what [pron] were [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm as er you went on as er as far as referrals were concerned and the objections that were raised you , you apacked really and , and , and went through and overcome those and at the end of the day you , you got the , you got really what you er what you were aiming for that er to get him to , to speak to these people between now and the next appointment so you could er , you could come back . |
| 2 | ‘ Would I be right in saying that we have n't provided you with what you were looking for when you came here ? ’ |
| 3 | " Did you get what you were looking for ? " |
| 4 | The third reading , for instance , was slower than the first , despite the fact that you knew exactly what you were looking for . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's what you were looking for , and more . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ So , did you find what you were looking for , guv' ? ’ asked Dexter as the lift jerked into motion and hummed downwards . |
| 7 | You could take the plug out and examine it , not knowing what you were looking for . |
| 8 | Some of them are fair , some of them treat you reasonably good , but others say you 're just a criminal , a nothing , do n't know what you were born for , that sort of thing . |
| 9 | It 's what you were born for — to make men 's heads turn and women 's eyes grow green with envy for all that you have that they can never hope to achieve . ’ |
| 10 | As soon as I saw what you were heading for , that you and he were hot at it , I cursed the baby you might have . ’ |
| 11 | They invited the Spanish and local press to watch us train , which is exactly the opposite of what we were hoping for . |
| 12 | That 's what we were hoping for . ’ |
| 13 | Well I suppose it is basically but no flute that 's what we were looking for . |
| 14 | What we were looking for in Committee , and what the children 's legal aid centre was looking for , was a declaration that the Government 's signature to the United Nation convention on the rights of the child would be enshrined in the spirit of law in this country and that there would be independent panels that could look after the welfare of the children to ensure that their welfare was the primary consideration . |
| 15 | So what we were looking for was something more er erm |
| 16 | Anybody get what we were looking for in the , yes you should ? |
| 17 | Well obviously the delivery name and address is important and the consignments , so you did n't get that wrong but there was , what we were looking for as well a full written declaration of the nature of contents of any consignment containing dangerous infested , contaminated |
| 18 | Number five , if the clients wish to switch testing units in any fund into units of any other fund , it 's a well written question is n't it ? the switch will be made from A , was what we were looking for , bid to bid in both funds , bid to bid , and that generally applies on all our stuff , so it 's quite worthwhile knowing . |
| 19 | I just wanted to come back on er David Potter 's assertion that we were looking for a a higher allocation under I five and I I thought I 'd specifically covered that point by saying that that was n't what we were looking for because that would n't address the sort of development we 're talking about here . |
| 20 | But I think the ingenuity of chemists and scientists and physicists and astronomers is such that , yes , we could do it — if we knew what we were looking for and had the right ideas . |
| 21 | We knew what we were looking for and we knew if we looked long enough and hard enough we would find it , but there were times when we thought perhaps it is n't out there . |
| 22 | There were very few firm commitments , the language is very much that of exploring , attempting , trying , hoping , when what we were looking for was a clear legislative framework . |
| 23 | Our job was to write the military communiques , the leaflets explaining our political programme and what we were fighting for when we moved into a new municipality , prepare tapes for the occasions we occupied the local radio stations in San Vicente and Zacatecoluca , monitor the international and national radio stations we could reach , and produce the mural newspapers for all the sub-zones of the region . |
| 24 | That was my original they had a competition to look out for people who 've got ideas about this new idea , it was a ridiculous idea to do a competition cos people did n't know what they were entering for , half the parishes were n't notified about it , |
| 25 | The pre-independence newspapers that campaigned for self-government knew what they were aiming for ; their journalists , contributors and backers came from the new , educated élite united by common aspirations and interests . |
| 26 | All the individual professionals , managers and planners , together with the local people the service was designed to serve , shared a common vision as to what they were aiming for , often based around the concept of providing a more ‘ normal ’ home life for patients who had previously lived in an institution . |
| 27 | They did n't know what they were hoping for quite honestly |
| 28 | Ships in harbour are safe but that is not what they were built for . |
| 29 | They even searched between the sheets and under the mattresses , and gave no answer when she asked what they were looking for . |
| 30 | We did n't know what they were looking for in them . |