Example sentences of "was [v-ing] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She studied it carefully as though it were some unfamiliar object she was seeing for the first time . |
| 2 | Lester was producing for the first time , after his experience with A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Forum . |
| 3 | Within a year , he was cooking for the Royal Box and state galas . |
| 4 | One boy , Dai Knoyle , was caddying for the great rugby player Barry John and took him back to his house to change . |
| 5 | Harry Holmes senior was competing for the last time , having raced thirty-seven times between 1933 and 1969 . |
| 6 | Yeah but what I 'm saying is erm the orange disk was flashing for a long while before the buzzer |
| 7 | It was said with a kind of embarrassed formality as if he , not Dalgliesh , were the host and he was apologizing for the unexpected absence of the hostess . |
| 8 | The greatest victory for the Sandinistas , he said , was that a new path was opening for the Nicaraguan people without war and where national interests would prevail over interventionist policies . |
| 9 | These were the very classes whose disruption of bourgeois identity was enabling for a vital , oppositional , and radical modernism . |
| 10 | Tom Watson from the US was bidding for the joint record-sixth British Open victory that would make him immortal alongside Harry Vardon . |
| 11 | The deal took place at a public inquiry in 1981 , when the owner , Wedgwood , was applying for a second time for consent to demolish . |
| 12 | Moreover it was becoming for the first time , as a result of Peter 's administrative reforms , an institution concerned solely with diplomacy . |
| 13 | On top of this recurrent expenditure , Gloucester was pressing for a major rebuilding programme , to include not only repairs to the castle and town walls , but the construction of 120 new houses at an estimated cost of £1,600 . |
| 14 | On top of this recurrent expenditure , Gloucester was pressing for a major rebuilding programme , to include not only repairs to the castle and town walls , but the construction of 120 new houses at an estimated cost of £1,600 . |
| 15 | A substantial part of the Cabinet was pressing for a quick outcome . |
| 16 | President Corazon Aquino of the Philippines was pressing for a seven-year treaty with an annual US$825 million in compensation ( comprising $400 million in cash grants and the remainder in concessions including debt reductions and trade concessions ) . |
| 17 | The 1,000-strong Congress , which was meeting for the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union , is the only body in the country that can change the constitution and other basic laws . |
| 18 | Again , it was with the help of Phil Andrews , who was No.1 on Venturous at that time , with Bob Wellock , an ex air/sea RAF coxswain from Liverpool Customs in command whom I was meeting for the first time . |
| 19 | I 've got some quotes here that I 've taken from the book which shows not only how Dickens thought women ought to behave , but how the readers , since he was writing for a public market , the readers too thought the ideal woman ought to behave . |
| 20 | It was gratifying to me that he approved the political and economic articles I was writing for the New English Weekly . |
| 21 | She was stumbling for the right words . |
| 22 | She grew up associating ‘ love ’ with an emotional roller-coaster , and although she was looking for a long-term partner , Deborah quickly became bored and dissatisfied in a stable relationship . |
| 23 | He had just won the Cannes Palme d'Or for Mission , and was looking for a new challenge . |
| 24 | Having coached Waikato in the New Zealand provincial championship for some years , Ross was looking for a new challenge and the opportunity to come to Northampton came at exactly the right moment . |
| 25 | She had announced that she would stay in Paris until October , but by October she was looking for a new place to rent , now deeply involved with Modi and unable to leave . |
| 26 | Slater says : ‘ I was looking for a new challenge and I am confident that this club will win honours . ’ |
| 27 | Staff were advised that the company was looking for a new property when the search for a new suitable area began and when Aldermaston had been identified as the place where the new offices were to be built . |
| 28 | But Mrs Rundle , the mother-hen , was looking for a new post and the house was to be sold over their heads , and the furniture , too . |
| 29 | But in 1940 , nobody was looking for a new type of cooker . |
| 30 | Tilda had at first elaborated her story , saying that her mother was looking for a new Daddy , but her observation , quick as a bird 's flight , showed her that this was going too far , and she added that she and her sister prayed nightly to Our Lady of Fatima for her father 's return . |