Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Owner of several Felixes himself , he plans in the next year or two to publish the player 's illustrated scrapbooks for the 1851 and 1852 seasons : ‘ They were intended for publication and are a remarkable social document , ’ he says . |
| 2 | They were intended for recreation rather than instruction and supplied by A. Gardner , a bookseller in Paisley , who seems to have had a free hand in their selection , Coats dictating the general policy . |
| 3 | And people strove to emulate their creation , while telling themselves they were striving for purity as possessed by the entity , or entities , that had created them . |
| 4 | The boys were eventually picked up by a small boat and were taken by ambulance to Nobles Hospital in Douglas where they were treated for cold . |
| 5 | With COSE being such a ‘ last orders ’ affair , they were n't given much time to consider it when they were asked for support , apparently by Sun Microsystems Inc . |
| 6 | If ones came as in little wee pi pickups we called them the little lorry things you would sort of keep your eye very much because you did n't know they were looking for scrap and if you told them you had nothing they might go away with your iron gates or something . |
| 7 | The testers presented themselves at factory gates , the minority one first and the other about half an hour later , and said they were looking for work . |
| 8 | April/May they were in , taking rock samples out and at that time we did n't even think they were looking for gold … |
| 9 | That started because I think Charles saw that they were eventually going had to give way to twenty additional fire fighters and they were looking for safety within the service . |
| 10 | They were n't looking for you , they were looking for cocaine . |
| 11 | She had completely forgotten they were looking for Garry — she had them deep in a holiday romance . |
| 12 | They were looking for food , of course , and would suddenly plunge downwards at lightning speed when they spotted something . |
| 13 | ‘ They were looking for trouble , ’ said prosecutor Nigel Mylne . |
| 14 | They were looking for trouble and they found us instead . |
| 15 | As they were built for use on the Crystal Palace route , they were fitted with Spencer track brakes , with a single pair of hard oak shoes under the centre of each truck and a brass wheel concentric with the hand brake staff on the platforms . |
| 16 | They were joined for lunch by the geography mistress , whose name he had not caught , and the games mistress , whose whistle-blowing prowess he had earlier admired . |
| 17 | They tell y' stories about the past , y' know , the war , or when they were fightin' for food an' clothin' an houses . |
| 18 | I 'm thinking towards the eastern European countries , for example , where one is told , or has been led to believe they were aiming for classlessness and what 's happening th barriers are coming down and they 're heading towards our capitalist society as a |
| 19 | They were hunting for evidence in the horrific case which detectives have dubbed the worst since child killers and torturers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley . |
| 20 | In this the camp was run as a luxury camp by the Germans in order to lull people into a sense of false security while they were pumped for information . |
| 21 | Two have since been found they were advertised for sale in Darlington but the third , which she had as a foal , is still missing . |
| 22 | After their statement had been released to the press , the unarmed hijackers surrendered to Indian authorities in Calcutta where they were detained for trial . |
| 23 | On this occasion , some of their bags were contained in the white diplomatic bag belonging to the Foreign Office , which they were using for convenience to contain their consignment — — and , as I have explained to the House , that was the commencement of the error in question which , of course , we very much regret . |
| 24 | Conservators have reconstructed a third-century B.C. carved-sandstone ‘ coffin bench ’ , and a fourth-century etched-sandstone chapel wall , major items that have not been seen since they were disassembled for transport decades ago . |
| 25 | But as they went faster , they were bound for disaster , one tipped up as its wheels hit a hole . |
| 26 | He suggests that they were worn for display only , rather than as a dress-fastening , being heavily abraded from contact with coarse outer clothing . |
| 27 | He persuaded the government to allow a group of students to be sent to the USA in 1872 , but they were recalled for fear they might become ‘ too gay ( morally loose ) or western ’ ( Wang 1928 : 44 ) , a comment which would not be out of place in more recent times . |
| 28 | It was when they were assembling for dinner that they had noticed her absence . |
| 29 | The bank had taken over the shares of the owners of the Art-B company when they were arrested for fraud in August 1991 [ see p. 38399 ] and was said to owe 6,000,000 million zlotys ( $430 million ) to the central bank ( NBP ) . |
| 30 | Her St Albans class included two sets of identical twins — Pat and Gill Smith brought Medau into the news when they were interviewed for television 's ‘ Tonight ’ programme in 1958 . |