Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time , Belinda had merely thought she was resting up for the party . |
| 2 | At about the same time as Jayne and Dave were tying the knot , creative director Nadia Marks was limbering up for the 20th anniversary of her wedding to writer husband Graham , whom she met at art school . |
| 3 | Andy Norman , who 's a sort of Sam Goldwyn of our athletics , spotted this key to his character years ago during a wait at Helsinki airport where Christie was hanging around for the last plane on a ticket about one grade up from cargo . |
| 4 | Secretly ( because the papers would never report it ) , behind the scenes a huge demand was building up for a ‘ decent ’ paper , one which — dare they say it — would Tell the Truth . |
| 5 | In his final statements in the Venezuelan capital Caracas , his last stop , Bush repeated the central message of the tour , that a " new age " was opening up for the Americas . |
| 6 | United were wobbling ; Hoddle was winding up for a big finish . |
| 7 | ONE WAR WAS WINDing down for a while , not ending , because they never end . |
| 8 | Up for re-election in 1952 , he was looking around for a cause that would be electorally popular , and found it in anti-communism . |
| 9 | At the door which led back on to the landing he was looking around for a prop or a wedge to pin it open when he thought of the parcel that he 'd been hugging since the zoo . |
| 10 | ‘ How about Communists in government ? ’ suggested a friend to Senator Joe McCarthy from Wisconsin , who was looking round for an issue to help get him re-elected . |
| 11 | With IBM Corp 's stock in the cellar and as hopes dim it will ever again return as the flagship of the US stock market , The New York Times last Sunday 20th was searching around for a successor and came up with — you guessed it — Microsoft Corp . |
| 12 | I was tired , Thérèse said : so I was lying down for a bit . |
| 13 | This was going on for a couple of days , so I was getting worried and I took him to the prison doctor and he says , ‘ It might be with you breastfeeding , try him on the bottle . ’ |
| 14 | Between Czecho and Hungary , he decided he was going off for a couple of days . |
| 15 | He said he was going in for the Spot the Talent competition at the Easter Fete . |
| 16 | He went back into the flat , grabbed his coat , told an astonished Frau Nordern that he was going out for a moment and , without waiting for any protests , dashed out and joined Bodo at the foot of the stairs . |
| 17 | During the previous weeks there had been fine weather , and after a day in the office Paul would keep his mother company in the evenings for a little while , then , as they had nothing to say to one another , he would tell her he was going out for a breath of air . |
| 18 | She 'd told her husband she was going out for a walk with their pet dog , Kirsty , when she was found the dog was still clinging to her . |
| 19 | Afraid she might doze off if she gave in to temptation and lay down on the bed , she sat down instead on the room 's only chair , and picked up a book , absorbing not a single word as she waited for the sounds that would mean he was turning in for the night . |
| 20 | Twenty-four hours after training , there was getting on for a sixty-per-cent increase in the numbers of spines to be found on the dendrites in the left IMHV ( but almost no effect in the right ) . |
| 21 | At dusk , passing through the countryside , everything was slowing down for the night . |
| 22 | The Shah said that he was staying on for a while , not flying immediately either to the States back to Egypt . |
| 23 | I had been asked to teach a course of lectures at the Teachers ’ College , which is the only place in NZ to run a speech therapy course ( run jointly with the university ) ; so I was staying on for an extra 4 weeks , while the others ( except Ned , who was also staying in Christchurch with his job ) headed for Auckland to fly home . |
| 24 | They had fetched him for Christmas and he was staying on for the New Year . |
| 25 | The rain was holding off for a while and the streets were drying in patches . |
| 26 | Thinking how quiet she 'd gone when he said he was coming up for the funeral and how she 'd seemed to withdraw into herself . |
| 27 | He then called his father , now living in retirement at Lake Martin , and got the name of a former Libyan engineering colleague , whom Coleman immediately telexed , saying he was coming out for a visit . |
| 28 | And he was moving in my direction , although I did n't know he was coming in for a photograph . |
| 29 | Raimondo , the designer , was frantic ; an oil-rich sheikh was coming in for a private showing with his wives . |
| 30 | After years of industry — and the country — being almost paralysed by strikes and restrictive practices , the country was crying out for a Government that would give a lead . |