Example sentences of "time [pers pn] be [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The time I was looking for a house , he says it was n't enough to get into Sandy Row . |
| 2 | At the time I was writing for Bicycle Times and one day Dick 's Arctic footpath came to mind . |
| 3 | At that time I was working for Hawker Siddeley Dynamics in Hatfield . |
| 4 | At that time I was working for the LNER on the Tyneside electrified lines , and had had a gentle hint from my then boss that he would like to know what Mr Rostron was up to . |
| 5 | This time I 'm voting for Greenpeace . |
| 6 | Er at the same time I 'm looking for the chemistry er the feel for those people , er the quality of those people and whether I could work with them and whether they could work with me . |
| 7 | 95% of the time I 'm arguing for something I do n't believe . |
| 8 | Her eleventh novel , Gwendolen , has just been published and she says that for the first time she is writing for her soul . |
| 9 | Switching the engine off , he leaned over and kissed her again , and this time she was waiting for him , kissing him back with an inner longing . |
| 10 | It was no secret that at the time you were looking for John Alaysi perhaps to replace Bootsen next season . |
| 11 | Now , competition time once again — and this time we 're looking for heroes . |
| 12 | Sylvia Andrews , breast screening services manager , said : ‘ Last year we screened 3,500 women and this time we are aiming for 4,600 . |
| 13 | ‘ Come on , it 's high time we were heading for home ourselves . |
| 14 | By the time we were enquiring for the Hacienda Lucinda he was growing in my mind as something wholly evil , as deformed and monstrous as Victor Hugo 's hunchback of Notre Dame without the saving grace of simplicity . |
| 15 | This time they 're hoping for a happier ending . |
| 16 | And the , the , the laugh I had was er , the last time they were advertising for spoolers they , you had to have I think it was O levels or something , |
| 17 | This time he 's going for it . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This time he was waiting for me at the table . |
| 20 | And so , unable either to believe in the significance of what he was doing or to regard it with indifference as an empty formality , all the time he was preparing for the sacrament he was conscious of a feeling of discomfort and shame in taking part in something he did not understand , which was therefore , an inner voice told him , deceitful and wrong of him . |
| 21 | ‘ For a time he was fighting for his life and we thought we might lose him . |