Example sentences of "were [adv] [v-ing] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Landlords not only were assessed on their directly occupied land but were constantly calling for relief for tenants , for whom increasing poor rates were setting a ceiling for rents . |
| 2 | Sixteen students were not looking for work at the time of the survey . |
| 3 | But he is afraid he have to correct Mr Browne on a matter of geography : the British troops were not waiting for war in the Kuwaiti desert ; that was the Iraqi troops . |
| 4 | DETECTIVES were yesterday looking for Animal Rights extremists who planted a firebomb under a huntswoman 's car . |
| 5 | Most traders , by the middle of this week , were still waiting for confirmation from maltsters on the accurate nitrogen tests . |
| 6 | The governors were still waiting for action one year later . |
| 7 | The forms in the waiting-room were most uncomfortable and at one period she got up and began to walk about , apparently to the consternation of other people who , docilely , were also waiting for news . |
| 8 | I told them that the Sandinista soldiers were also Catholics ; were also fighting for their country ; were also longing for peace . |
| 9 | Lewin smashed into Adele and Daniel Davies , nine , as they were out collecting for Bonfire Night . |
| 10 | Meanwhile Malta 's reconnaissance aircraft were out looking for Axis convoys bound for Tripoli or Benghazi so that the island 's bombers might strike at them and disrupt the flow of supplies and reinforcements to Rommel 's command . |
| 11 | They remained in control over the means of mass communications but those whose work or views they had long ignored were now clamouring for access . |
| 12 | Both sides were now preparing for war , but Norfolk and Rent made another attempt at mediation in mid-December when they wrote to all the prelates asking them to attend an assembly in London to discuss the king 's failure to abide by his coronation oath and Magna Carta . |
| 13 | At the second last she put in a tremendous leap and was back in the lead as Run And Skip started to fade , but Forgive 'N Forget on the stands side and Wayward Lad inside him were now going for home , and they passed Dawn Run on the approach to the last . |
| 14 | Izetbegovic at a press conference said that Croatia was " so far " not considered an aggressor in Bosnia-Hercegovina , although Croatian forces were reportedly fighting for control of the Bosnian town of Mostar , near the Croatian coast . |
| 15 | ‘ You were n't looking for gold , were you ? ’ |
| 16 | She ca n't remember any but there again you were she were n't looking for green . |
| 17 | Despite this criticism the doctrine was applied without criticism in the later case of Cinnamond v British Airports Authority [ 1980 ] 2 All ER 368 to mini-cab drivers who were unlawfully touting for business . |
| 18 | The act of conception , staring at a typewriter for much of 1985 in a flat in Notting Hill Gate so depressed me that I immediately thereafter applied for a job as doctor for Amoco , who were then exploring for oil near Morondava . |