Example sentences of "he [was/were] [v-ing] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's right the tenth replacement depot in Lichfield and they used to come round to Walsall looking for absentees and deserters and they there was actually a shooting match in Street the MPs started firing the guns at these fellas who 'd gone absent without leave , and , but as I understand I remember at the time there was a lot of racism in America then and they , they picked these coloured fellas up and apparently the C O at Lichfield was very much a southern colonel and he was a racist and they used to chain these coloured guys up behind the trucks and make them walk all the way back to Lichfield behind the trucks driving the trucks at walking pace and I understand there was a , a salver , a commemorative salver in the Town Hall to be presented to him , and some an MP in the Council he were looking for this colonel , but as I understand he was court-martialled after the war for racism and so I do n't think he 'd be wanting , wanted to be connected with Walsall any more , so but this was |
| 2 | He was sprinting for dear life across a carrot patch and doing quite well until one of the pieces caught up with him . |
| 3 | When I left , he was calling for more beer . |
| 4 | He was looking for female voices , he remembered Jakki , invited her to submit some tapes and — presto ! — she was offered a job in The Smoke . |
| 5 | The club 's community development officer , Mike Rigg , said he was looking for eight unemployed young men and women , aged 19 or over , to organise soccer schools as part of the 12-month Employment Training plan . |
| 6 | I do n't know when he , when he was looking for that old chap , I think one of the girls threw something at him hit him in the eye . |
| 7 | Then the 62-year-old globetrotter from Bristol revealed he was looking for two more women ! |
| 8 | He had a small touring company which had just suffered a couple of deaths in a carriage accident , and he was looking for two versatile and experienced ( yes ! ) players . |
| 9 | He is flipping useless and it is time that he was looking for another job . |
| 10 | Was the vicious rumour that he had turned up late after a liquid lunch and did n't know what he was voting for true ? |
| 11 | He was speaking for some time and when he had finished he turned to his wife . |
| 12 | I always felt that he was never really happy with his performance of La Mer ; he was searching for certain textures which he could never really get in hand . |
| 13 | He knew that he was searching for sixteen points of comparison before he could be sure of positive identification . |
| 14 | A little man , ‘ looking like a smart French doctor ’ , he was searching for hidden treasure . |
| 15 | Sigua said that he was hoping for economic aid and credits from the USA and Iran and for bilateral trade agreements with Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) countries to relieve the situation . |
| 16 | The Shah 's enemies saw the move differently , The fact that they was now lingering in the area , first in Egypt an now Morocco , rather than proceeding straight to the United States as announced , inevitably aroused the suspicion that he was hoping for some sort of repeat of 1953 . |
| 17 | She rather thought he was hoping for some reciprocal comment or gesture , but for the life of her , whether he thought it unforgivable or not , she just had to burst out laughing , and ‘ Lubor ! ’ she laughed . |
| 18 | He wondered if Huddle would use her in the painting of the Visitation he was planning for one of the aisles . |
| 19 | Though he had no hope of beating Stevie or Buck , he was heading for one of the best net scores of the day . |
| 20 | If he was suing for less than 20s in 1830 he left a deposit of 5s ; 7s 6d for one between 20s and 40s ; 10s between 40s and 60s , and 12s 6d for 60s . |
| 21 | At the University , pursuing his hope of becoming an archaeologist ( he may really have meant an antiquarian ) , he was studying for three Honours Degrees . |
| 22 | By 1782 he was paying for 16 boys and 7 girls aged 4 to 11 to attend the local school , and contributing money to build the local workhouse . |
| 23 | An uncomfortable pause while he sat forward on the sofa holding his coffee cup in both hands and gazing into it as if he was waiting for some kind of chemical reaction . |
| 24 | This time last year he was caring for injured animals in his back garden in Aylesbury . |
| 25 | He said he was coming for some gnocchi tonight . |
| 26 | 49 Miss Havisham regrets her ‘ training ’ of Estella and when Pip returns from abroad where he was working for 11 years he finds Estella much changed from her unhappy marriage to the spider . |
| 27 | She met her husband when he was working for British Steel in Czechoslovakia . |
| 28 | ‘ Did he say anything about where he was going for this meeting ? ’ |
| 29 | I thought he was going for three weeks . |