Example sentences of "that [pron] were [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | So some were staring down at you and others were well below your eye level , which meant that you were scanning for each piece rather than reading them as a series . |
| 2 | But I , I did n't know whether that was something that you were looking for , something more local . |
| 3 | er and I 'll be the first to recognize that and this was just a sort of the ball park stats that you were looking for . |
| 4 | Tha that Scottish card that you were looking for that painting ? |
| 5 | My understanding was that you were working for and that you would send your invoice to him . |
| 6 | What makes this particular story so tragic is that while Jeremy fought to survive , no doubt focusing his efforts on the hope that we were looking for him , a succession of minor acts of negligence , committed by both the Spanish authorities and the British Consul , conspired to delay a proper search being mounted . |
| 7 | ‘ The voice of George Sanders gave the character the right blend of conceit , disdain and intelligence that we were looking for . ’ |
| 8 | Erm , I ca n't remember the exact conversation but the basics of it were that we were looking for somebody called Lawrence and he was at the present time at erm and that he was in possession of a gun and that the caller was concerned for the safety of the occupants of those premises . |
| 9 | But what er , I said , told Pete because I had another call when you were at lunch I think and erm he said he 'd heard rumours that we were looking for somebody . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ People asked me and Derrick what we were doing over the past two years and the answer that I want to give is that we were waiting for everybody to catch up . |
| 12 | You have seen that we were waiting for you . |
| 13 | All he could say was that we were waiting for something to happen . ’ |
| 14 | NSS , in common with virtually every other publication in the country , got its fingers burnt last week as a result of giving too much credence to the pollsters ' consistent message that we were heading for a hung parliament . |
| 15 | We did n't know that we were asking for impossible things , because we had never worked in the record business before — and we 'd get them . |
| 16 | Basically this calls for an identification of present requirements and an assessment of likely requirements over the next 5 years , subject to review/upgrading in year 6 ; it may be that our letter conveyed the impression that we were asking for a ‘ 12-year plan ’ , this is not the case . |
| 17 | I mean we 'll be back to the scenario that we were fighting for three years ago . |
| 18 | This reflected the nature of the environment , the local pride of the individual Australian colonies , and the awareness of the railway builders and architects that they were building for a grander , though then unrealized , future . |
| 19 | Did anyone out there , when they saw the movie , realize that they were smoking for real ? |
| 20 | The strongest signal of Moscow 's fury with the intransigent Romanian regime came when Pravda , the Communist Party daily newspaper , reported favourably on the demonstrators in Timisoara , saying that they were looking for rapid reforms in the country . |
| 21 | The unions said that they were looking for the second week in January to begin an all-out stoppage . |
| 22 | McLeish thanked him , scrambled up the embankment , drawing in deep breaths , and walked carefully down the side of the track in the sizeable footsteps of his squad , explaining to them that they were looking for a sharp-edged weapon . |
| 23 | When Philip was alone in the wood he imagined all sorts of things about the planes , that they were enemy planes bombing Thirkett , that they were on reconnaissance flights spying , that they were looking for him : a crashed pilot hiding out in the wood . |
| 24 | ‘ And so , Jim , ’ said the doctor , ‘ you have the thing that they were looking for , have you ? ’ |
| 25 | They are said to have explained that they were looking for the conductor to buy their tickets as Stonehouse station did not sell tickets at that time of night . |
| 26 | The explanation that they were looking for bones and relics of ancient races puzzled the poet . |
| 27 | ‘ Bill was being treated at South Cleveland Hospital and he saw notices that they were looking for donations for the holistic centre in the new hospital building . |
| 28 | LABOUR 'S health spokesman , Mr Robin Cook , claimed during health questions that eye tests were dropping so steeply since charges were imposed earlier this year that they were heading for a fall of three million , but health minister Mrs Virginia Bottomley said the Government had not yet reviewed the effect of charges . |
| 29 | At the height of the romance , the pair were inseparable and it was obvious to family and friends that they were heading for the altar . |
| 30 | She had n't even noticed where they were , but now he was guiding her up some stone steps , and she realised by the background music that they were heading for Pepe 's . |