Example sentences of "was [pron] [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | We goes up town the following week then to get and I forget what I was looking for , oh it was I was looking for your blouse |
| 2 | You wanted to wake up with him right there in the room and to turn to him and quote the next line of the film right back at him , to whisper it to him , make me almost believe that we are a pair of young lovers without any shame , and I do n't mean that in some tragedy queen way , but in order to say of Boy that truly I do think that it is a beauty like his that makes it all worth while , and I do feel that if we are fighting for anything , and if I was asked in a questionnaire what it was I was fighting for ( and believe me I do feel like I am fighting , more and more I think that ) , then I would answer , beauty . |
| 3 | The one thing he would never have said was I 'm looking for someone . |
| 4 | She frowned , not knowing what it was she was looking for , then turned back , looking at him . |
| 5 | Precisely who it was she was using for a role model became clear as a middle-aged lady , admirably slim in well-cut jodhpurs , erupted from some inner fortress to enquire , in tones that carried effortlessly across the yard , precisely why Caroline had failed to run up her stirrups , how long had she been riding ? |
| 6 | What he said was he was waiting for the government for better |
| 7 | He half sensed , never really thought it though , that whatever it was it was looking for , was essential to its very existence . |