Example sentences of "we [was/were] [v-ing] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were looking for the reflective eyes of a fox . |
| 2 | ‘ My name 's Stirling , ’ he said , almost as though we were meeting for the first time outside his Club in London . |
| 3 | While we were waiting for the chillim to be filled and passed around , Kalchu pointed out a conical heap of stones at the base of a great cedar tree near the edge of the glade . |
| 4 | So I bought her some fruit pastilles again just while we were waiting for the train , but funnily enough , the last few times we 've been at the station , Bobby |
| 5 | By the time we were enquiring for the Hacienda Lucinda he was growing in my mind as something wholly evil , as deformed and monstrous as Victor Hugo 's hunchback of Notre Dame without the saving grace of simplicity . |
| 6 | ‘ She 'll have told you we were coming for the boat . |
| 7 | It was 1973 and already we were preparing for the move to the States . |
| 8 | And then it was erm erm which was er battered about a bit but we were preparing for the , the next move you see . |
| 9 | We were heading for the Westerman Islands on the far south-east corner of Iceland and a front came in faster than Robin Knox-Johnston , the skipper , had anticipated . |