Example sentences of "he [was/were] [v-ing] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before leaving he stood for a moment at the door and let his eyes range round the room as if he were seeing it for the first time . |
| 2 | There is a certain grudging margin , to be sure , about all that Mr Eliot writes — as if he were compensating himself for his limitations by a peevish assumption of superiority . |
| 3 | Although he believed thoroughly in the ability of these products to fill out the tiny character lines around the eyes and mouth , and to smooth his neck , he did not want to admit he was buying them for himself . |
| 4 | ‘ He was inviting us for Sunday lunch tomorrow . |
| 5 | He gave her a long , slow look as if he was seeing her for the first time . |
| 6 | I could see he was bracing himself for his act . |
| 7 | He said that he believed he had lawful authority to ride the bike because he was repairing it for a friend . |
| 8 | Pc Elsegood told Wing he was an off-duty policeman and he was arresting him for assault . |
| 9 | He was teaching us for er physics and er |
| 10 | So he was taking it for granted or or chancing his hand that this Monday for this year was going to be another good day . |
| 11 | She was left thinking how hard he was driving himself for the sake of his adoptive family . |
| 12 | Instinct told her that he was planning something for her and it might not be to her liking . |
| 13 | Barbara Newington from Connecticut remembered shaking hands effusively with Reagan at the beginning and end of her audience , and each of them saying thank you to the other ; but precisely what she was thanking him for , and what he was thanking her for , neither said . |
| 14 | He was probing himself for me . |
| 15 | you , er , it had happened because I had been , I had had a lot of training and a lot of swindles and thing , I was able to talked to him and I talked to him for an hour and a half er , I was curious for one thing to find out why he was , he , he was breaking into people 's houses , so that the fact that he was doing it for , to , to get money for drugs |
| 16 | I was perhaps the only one who knew he was doing it for Duke . |
| 17 | But she could tell he was doing it for effect , he was still himself . |
| 18 | But he was doing it for his little girl , his Karen , and for her mother , his wife Ruthie . |
| 19 | He was doing it for Germany . ’ |
| 20 | He had no time for the cant of the priests about sin , but he knew , as he lay in the barracks hearing the grunts and panting of his companions , that he was honing himself for a superior form by refusing his body . |
| 21 | I mean I w when I was dropping dead with exhaustion one evening I said to him look Tony , the there 's I 've cooked a chicken , there 's a big chicken cooling on the table and there there were red sauce , potatoes , gravy , I said , stick the lot on a plate a micro and , you know , film it over , microwave it oh well I sha n't bother to eat anything now of course he was paying me for his food |
| 22 | Meanwhile Dave had gone to pick up the boss from Stuttgart Airport as he was joining us for the weekend . |
| 23 | He was preparing himself for a British Council tour of France but it was cancelled at the last moment ; he did , however , fly to Amsterdam and then on to Rome in December under the auspices of the same organization . |
| 24 | He was raising it for a second hit when Nancy rushed forward and , seizing the piece of wood , threw it into the fire . |
| 25 | He was reactivating them for life . |
| 26 | Privately , Robbie considered he was over-reacting , that he was blaming her for his own inability to work today . |