Example sentences of "was [v-ing] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was in pain , but she was taking it out on a complicated Fair Isle jumper that she was knitting for some nephew in Canada . |
| 2 | Despite some degree of battlefield success at Dezful — in the course of which Iraq captured a number of British-made Chieftain tanks which it put on display before foreign journalists at al-Amarah in the central sector just as Iraq 's own armour , mainly Russian in origin , was gathering for further fighting at Ahwaz — Dezful did not fall either and the Iranians were far from having been routed . |
| 3 | A Devon labourer who promised his mother not to marry in her lifetime , finally married only at the age of 51 : ‘ bugger , we was courting for seventeen year . |
| 4 | The first show we ever did was opening for Living Colour , and we 've just done a mini-tour with Adrian Belew 's band . |
| 5 | Defence Minister Shaposhnikov was pressing for unified command with a supreme commander in charge of all strategic and conventional forces , which would allow little room for republican armies . |
| 6 | Said young woman was dying for female talk , and he was busy himself , anyway . |
| 7 | He was sprinting for dear life across a carrot patch and doing quite well until one of the pieces caught up with him . |
| 8 | Potential was developing for second guessing , waste and friction . ’ |
| 9 | By the time Horsley met him he had won the franchise for Lancashire Cable , had a controlling interest in Merseyside Cable , and was looking for other cable companies . |
| 10 | He had post-graduate study in Canada lined up for the following year and was looking for short-term employment . |
| 11 | I was looking for one hole . |
| 12 | He expressed Yugoslavia 's wish for closer economic ties with the EC , and was looking for further aid . |
| 13 | He is flipping useless and it is time that he was looking for another job . |
| 14 | The South African was looking for this patterning , to ensure they had not been foisted off with sand-blasted bottle-glass or the other principal substitute , cubic zirconia . |
| 15 | I was looking for some short-cut to getting a complete description of who you are . |
| 16 | We were just walking away , and I was looking for some sort of rubbish container in which to put the bag of icing sugar , when we suddenly heard all those sirens going , and saw masses of policemen running into the park . |
| 17 | The overseers of the poor in Frome must have asked themselves very much this same question ; at one time or another something between a quarter and a half of the population of Britain were to receive parish relief in the late 18th century — and the £l , 970 per annum it was costing for such relief in Frome in 1792 would rise to a staggering £11,723 per annum by 1831 . |
| 18 | The Cornell team was searching for neutral hydrogen inside other known galaxies . |
| 19 | The fighting was caused for three reasons : different sides kept stealing cattle ; everybody was searching for new land ; and according to the Romans the Celts liked fighting . |
| 20 | A little man , ‘ looking like a smart French doctor ’ , he was searching for hidden treasure . |
| 21 | Tormented , Eliot was searching for some sort of salvation . |
| 22 | Like the great post-War German abstract stained glass artist , Reyntiens was searching for serene rationality through simplified structure and line . |
| 23 | Solomon had just lost the third set to go two sets to one down , the crowd was baying for American blood . |
| 24 | Did he think she was lying for some reason ? |
| 25 | Fabia arose on Sunday morning , thought of Cara , of Barney , and of the man she had never yet met but , with guilty conscience , hoped to , and then attempted to shed her anxieties by remembering that , with Františkovy Láznë being less than twenty-five miles away , Františkovy Láznë was where she was heading for that day . |
| 26 | ‘ I think I know why Billy was heading for that house , ’ Prentice went on . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , the Government was heading for more conflict after its confirmation of a 1.5 per cent public-sector pay rise led to protests from teachers and health workers . |
| 28 | I think he had a thing about it particularly because he knew the record company really was going for that song because the first American space shot was coming up . |
| 29 | ‘ Did he say anything about where he was going for this meeting ? ’ |
| 30 | Well that 's what I thought I was going for this morning as well as that one . |