Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [noun] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1981 Israeli aircraft nevertheless destroyed Iraq 's big Osirak nuclear reactor , near Baghdad , on the grounds that Iraq was producing material for an atomic bomb there . |
| 2 | He was gathering data for a book about world metro systems , a task on which he had been engaged for years . |
| 3 | The suit would be allowed even if the plaintiff did not suffer the loss , but was recovering damages for the benefit of the person who suffered the loss . |
| 4 | There the widow was recovering damages for the death of the original victim of the defendant 's negligence . |
| 5 | And I was eating steak for the second time in less than fifteen hours . |
| 6 | Its officials blamed perennial financial woes as the reason , adding that the society was pursuing negotiations for a potentially life-saving merger with another institution — the New York Public Library . |
| 7 | He caught Moira when he was signing copies for the children . |
| 8 | Some of the singers knew their place in that production — almost miraculously , Gergiev had coaxed Sergei Leiferkus away from a couple of London Fiery Angels to sing Tomsky for old times ' sake — but one of Gergiev 's protégés , Gegam Gregorian , was tackling Hermann for the first time , and Maria Guleghina had flown in for Lisa . |
| 9 | Bully Boy 's owner , Ron Taylor , who is involved in various interests in Lambourn , admitted to having ‘ a nice punt ’ on the six-year-old , who was tackling fences for the first time . |
| 10 | Kit had learned how to grow certain lucrative crops on the mainland , when he served with Roger Pole and the local Indians had been drafted to instruct them ; but he was cultivating indigo for the first time , in Sycorax 's former enclave , and he found the plant tricky and demanding and considered its production women 's work . |
| 11 | Intel Corp president Andy Grove told the annual meeting that the company 's chip business remains strong and that it is ready to fight new competitors in the market place , Reuter reports : ‘ Our response to all these competitors has been to concentrate on getting better and faster products into the hands of our customers , ’ Grove said , adding that Intel was meeting demand for the 80486 but dealer and customer inventories were tight ; capital spending this year is now likely to hit $1,800m , up from the previously planned $1,600m ; executive vice-president Craig Barrett said the next generation P6 microprocessor will probably be unveiled in late 1995 or early 1996 ; Intel holders also approved a two for one share split to take effect in June . |
| 12 | One moment she was cleaning floors for a living , the next receiving a pair of brass candlesticks from the King and Queen of Sweden or making small talk with the President of Somewhere or Other . |
| 13 | In the 1950s , when the late Heinz Under was presenting Torontonians for the first time with the symphonies of Gustav Mahler in the York Concert Society series in Massey Hall , I will never forget the ecstatic moment , after a dozen tumultuous curtain calls at the end of the Resurrection Symphony , when the elderly maestro lifted the heavy score off the stand — and shook it as vigorously and as high as he was able , in homage to the great composer . |
| 14 | Bubbles , 63 , wife of newspaper owner Lord Rothermere , was getting tablets for a variety of ailments from at least four doctors in London alone , the inquest was told . |
| 15 | It was getting time for the last bus across London Bridge for the District Line . |
| 16 | He had addressed such matters in Edinburgh , St Andrews , and would in Glasgow , with an awareness that he was reporting Scotland for an English audience as he might have reported Bavaria or Sweden . |
| 17 | ‘ A little girl called Amy from Chester contacted me as I was providing cover for the whole of the North , ’ she says . |
| 18 | ‘ Like the good doctor Scawsby , I was completing certain errands — Scawsby was buying medicines for the Queen , ’ he yawned , ‘ I , of course , for the Lord Cardinal . ’ |
| 19 | As early as 1967 an inner group of ministers was examining proposals for the modernization of Polaris to prolong its credibility into the 1990s . |
| 20 | If she had , she would have been sure to say so when she was blaming Joseph for the murder . |
| 21 | The Still Waters project began two years ago , while Denyer was doing shoots for the Broads Authority , a body set up in the late 1970s to manage and protect the area . |
| 22 | Ladies and gentlemen , he would say , Ladies and gentlemen , now it gives me very great pleasure to introduce the woman who is responsible for holding this whole show together ; the woman who first understood all those years ago that there was crying need for a place where all you lovely people could gather of an evening , the one that we all know and love , and so … would you please welcome on stage , the very lovely , the very talented … once again … our very own … and sometimes he would fade out , and not even say her name , and he would pause , he would make us wait , he would suspend his elegant hands over the keys ; and then , in that silence , he would play the first notes of the actual song itself . |
| 23 | In the early part of the decade ‘ Laura Ashley ’ was selling a bustle-backed wedding dress in cotton seersucker for a mere ten pounds fifty , A famous designer was charging £600 for a comparable design . |
| 24 | does she , you , you said she was having vitamins for a while did n't you ? |
| 25 | Mr Zivkovic , a draughtsman who lived in Britain for 24 years after the war but now lives in Tasmania , Australia , was giving evidence for the defence in Lord Aldington 's libel action over allegations by Mr Nikolai Tolstoy and Mr Nigel Watts that he is a war criminal responsible for the forced repatriation of 70,000 Cossacks and Yugoslavs . |
| 26 | Another very important factor was that at the Boat Show the R Y A announced that it was taking responsibility for the national coordination of all activities er for sailors with special needs , that 's blind , deaf , disabled and there are many organizations who are working in this field but the R Y A is the coordinator . |
| 27 | One of the few problems Julie and her husband faced was choosing tiles for the splashback . |
| 28 | I only went once to visit the Greens and then I was collecting money for the Missionary Fund to which most people contributed a copper or two , with young Mrs Thwaites from the neighbouring farm to us , High Birk Hatt . |
| 29 | He was collecting notes for a book of random observations , a Thackeray-like Sketchbook , called An American Journey . |
| 30 | As the lorry neared him he could see that it was carrying fruit for the city . |