Example sentences of "were [v-ing] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He shut his eyes upon a rush of tears , and painfully contained them , but the springs of fondness in the middle of his being were weeping inconsolably for the stilling of the quick hands and the creative mind . |
| 2 | These poor chaps were searching desperately for a project which would not be cursed with the ephemeral vulgarity of their usual tasks . |
| 3 | They were heading straight for the belt of shrubbery where he and Larsen had taken cover , and which Larsen had just vacated . |
| 4 | Oh , must be Friday then , I knew they were going away for the week , weekend |
| 5 | Her son and daughter who cared for her were going abroad for a fortnight 's holiday . |
| 6 | In times past , I had tried to get across to the continent as much as possible , but now , while other people were going abroad for the first time because of all the cheap travel around , I was ( without intending to be anti-social ) doing exactly the opposite and taking a look around the British Isles . |
| 7 | so it meant that for some time before contingency fund development was introduced you must of had some concerns er about the accuracy of the figures you were putting forward for the publication , can , can I explain that a little more ? if after a few years a major repair needs to be carried out there was no contingency fund , it might mean sticking another two or three hundred pounds a year on the service charges , might it not , to cover a major repair |
| 8 | The leaders of the new state — Ignacy Paderewski and Roman Dmowski — were campaigning vigorously for an even bigger allocation of German territory . |
| 9 | But he was reassured by the fact that the Dhah had promised that they were leaving only for a few weeks vacation . |
| 10 | Following from this the aim was that the project should collaborate with existing service-providers in order to ensure that there was no overlap or competition with others but that all were working together for the good of the client ; and that the project would , where necessary , coordinate the services available to each client and thus ensure an appropriate and suitably balanced package of care for that person . |