Example sentences of "who [was/were] [v-ing] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big city was a powerful draw to youngsters who were looking for the chance to better themselves . |
| 2 | After the ceremony the bridal couple rushed to the photographer 's studio to have their portrait taken , before joining their guests who were waiting for the wedding meal . |
| 3 | This was the first survey to attempt to study a nationally representative sample of those who were caring for the sick , elderly and handicapped , although there have been a variety of small local surveys and qualitative investigations of this topic . |
| 4 | The two men who were fighting for the title met privately . |
| 5 | I felt happy to know honourable people who were fighting for the common good , that is to say , for justice ’ ( Neruda : 1974 , p. 435 ) . |
| 6 | Then as we commissioned our team for what is at the time of writing known as the King 's Arms church we experienced a pouring out of the gifts of the Spirit on those elders and leaders who were praying for the team : it seemed everyone had a word of instruction , a revelation , a tongue or an interpretation for the strengthening of the church . |
| 7 | The court had heard that Chalmers , who was training for the ministry with the Rev Ian Paisley 's Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster , had lured the boy into a church in South Belfast and abused him . |
| 8 | We were in Verbier in March 1990 with our two sons aged 9 and 11 , both good skiers , and a daughter of 4 who was skiing for the first time . |
| 9 | He went along with a friend who was auditioning for the lead and landed the part himself , playing a thug hanged for murder . |
| 10 | He went along with a friend who was auditioning for the lead and landed the part himself , playing a thug hanged for murder . |
| 11 | The poet James Fenton , who was stringing for The Washington Post and who must have cut an unlikely figure riding into Saigon on a victorious Viet Cong tank ( described in The Fall of Saigon , first published in Granta 15 and then included in All the Wrong Places ) , wrote a savage review of the book in the New Statesman describing Herr as a ‘ shooter ’ , rather than a reporter for Esquire . |
| 12 | David Bowden of Complins , Holybourne , who was running for the Multiple Sclerosis Society , recorded a rather faster time of two hours 56 minutes — but he was running in his seventh marathon . |
| 13 | No , our Whelan is Noel Whelan , a lad who was playing for the youngsters just last season . |
| 14 | He is accused of wounding David Hallam , 29 , of Stanley Street , Garston , Liverpool , who was playing for the Oxton-based Queens Arms team . |
| 15 | John Newton , 25 , a chemist of New Hey Road , Woodchurch , Birkenhead , has pleaded not guilty to causing grievous bodily harm to David Hallam , 29 , of Stanley Street , Garston , who was playing for the Queens Arms team from Oxton . |
| 16 | SILLARS STALKER * , who was winning for the first time on the Flat when landing an apprentice handicap at Hamilton Park eight days ago , should make a successful return to the Scottish track in today 's Levy Board Handicap ( 5.15 ) . |