Example sentences of "were [v-ing] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She were knocking for this thing you know . |
| 2 | If we were searching for this record , a comparison with the ‘ key ’ of the first block would be low , and of the second , high . |
| 3 | Tha that Scottish card that you were looking for that painting ? |
| 4 | Is this what you found when you were looking for that card ? |
| 5 | that , we went up there as in actual fact we were looking for certain place when er the postcard we had was n't it , was n't the cows given us trouble and we went |
| 6 | ‘ Darling , ’ Arabella had said , ‘ You know that PR firm I did some work for ? I was talking with their boss the other day , and he said they were looking for new blood … ’ |
| 7 | A rather higher proportion ( 35 per cent ) treated their job as a " Stop-gap " and were looking for other work [ see Table 4.2 ] . |
| 8 | For the next hour the fairground gradually filled with people , mainly families with young children or teenagers who had become bored with their tour round the factory and were looking for some excitement . |
| 9 | Yeah and then we were looking for some carpeting were n't we ? |
| 10 | and then we started speaking to this chap and say we were looking for this place where the erm , they sell all this food and so on , what 's the name of the place , he said oh he says it 's finished , so he said you know where the er , we said er where 's somewhere good you know to , to go and have a nice sleep , and he told us about that place up the mountain where we went , where we all went the last time |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | Nevertheless by 19 July both sides were looking for foreign help . |
| 13 | But likewise we were looking for another project similar to what er Eric and I were involved in with the cage drilling machine . |
| 14 | There is reason to think they were also feeling the loss of their carriers that June at the battle of Midway , and were looking for more land bases for aircraft . |
| 15 | If they were looking for more cancer then surely the place to look was at the next vulnerable point ? |
| 16 | He took care to appear blithely unworried as he strolled with his staff , for he knew only too well how the French sympathizers in the city were looking for any sign of allied defeatism that they could turn into an argument to demoralize the Dutch-Belgian troops . |
| 17 | I felt they were looking for any excuse to start a fight . |
| 18 | The established family farms were , mostly , already profitable and the farmers were looking for sufficient income to provide their families with a reasonable standard of living plus sufficient capital to re-invest in the farm and provide for retirement . |
| 19 | And the big fish were heading for deep water . |
| 20 | Those in financial trouble who knew of the money advice services but chose to ignore them , or who were unaware of their existence , and as a result let their indebtedness , once just manageable , become unmanageable , were heading for real trouble . |
| 21 | Last season they won the Fourth Division title and Corden believed the club were heading for second division football . |
| 22 | But Barons came back to lead 4-3 at the end of the second and Tigers looked like they were heading for another defeat . |
| 23 | We were paying for that plane . |
| 24 | Handed over in 1939 by Its owners In response to an advertisement in The Times , Youth Allyah decided to use it as a transit camp for refugee children who were waiting for permanent hachshara . |
| 25 | He , he , he said that at one point this chap had used the phrase that well that they were going for controlled destabilization from the Health Service . |
| 26 | Maybe they were going for another pastrami sandwich . |
| 27 | Emancipation for women was beginning to rumble and Cook may have embraced the idea , but , being a shrewd opportunist , it is more likely that he saw potential customers among women who were striving for more freedom . |
| 28 | So some were staring down at you and others were well below your eye level , which meant that you were scanning for each piece rather than reading them as a series . |
| 29 | The long , silvery , all-metal kitchen was already occupied by two figures dressed in white trousers and jackets topped by high white paper hats : the diminutive lady chef from Montreal and a tall willowy young man who introduced himself as Angus , the special chef employed by the outside firm of top-class caterers who were providing for this journey the sort of food not usually served on trains . |
| 30 | Er against the cost of government changes so this last part of this budget is actually the cost of making up for government cuts and section of and we 're disappointed that Conservatives decided to cut the section they were funding for next year . |