Example sentences of "who [was/were] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Travelling on a false passport made out in the name of James Richardson , Bourke travelled by train from London to Paris ( apparently without encountering any problems with the police who were searching for him ) , and thence by air to Berlin where he crossed into the eastern sector and shortly afterwards was flown to Moscow to be reunited with Blake . |
| 2 | The raiders , who were searching for cash and jewellery , left valuable fur coats , stereos , a photo of Gazza with the Queen , and an England shirt , according to police . |
| 3 | Suburbs sprawled out to provide homes for the newly prosperous who were searching for more peaceful surroundings . |
| 4 | The palace was surrounded by a crowd who were shouting for him to speak . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The skull was dug up in eighteen seventy four by workmen who were quarrying for stone in the area around Barrow Wake near Gloucester . |
| 7 | Sergei Shakhrai , former presidential legal advisor , warned in Komsomolskaya pravda of Aug. 8 that the SC had fallen into the control of conservatives who were hoping for a return to the administrative-command system . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He says if people had listen to the voices who were calling for him to be locked up then he would n't have had this chance to show an improvement . |
| 10 | He had some troublesome followers who were clamouring for a positive policy without being able to suggest one . |
| 11 | " It 's that boy , Timothy Gedge , " Lavinia had said , and then had called out to the twins , who were clamouring for her upstairs somewhere . |
| 12 | This fundamentally optimistic interpretation of the world and its mysterious working was contested by the heirs of the Enlightenment of the previous century , who were looking for rational explanations and practical methods of applying them . |
| 13 | The libraries with the most extensive training programmes were most likely to be the ones who had clearly identified their training needs , and who were looking for ways of either increasing or maintaining the effectiveness of their training by developing methods that would enable them to get round the restriction of decreasing staff ‘ mobility ’ . |
| 14 | These were not necessarily the shy or reserved ones , who were quite likely to be snapped up by ‘ parents ’ who were looking for a quiet life . |
| 15 | The big city was a powerful draw to youngsters who were looking for the chance to better themselves . |
| 16 | I joined one band because they were playing at the Marquee , and at that gig I was spotted by Girlschool , who were looking for a guitarist . |
| 17 | ‘ Have n't the Jews so often been the victims down the years of people who were looking for demons to bait ? ’ he said . |
| 18 | On all three occasions , peace had created unemployment among soldiers who were looking for adventure and pay . |
| 19 | As it happened , as I say , I was apprentice at Vickers Armstrong and I moved on , quite obviously , to another firm who were looking for people like this . |
| 20 | ‘ He was a really powerful figure for people like me ’ , says Lloyd , ‘ who were looking for something new , and we were n't sure what . ’ |
| 21 | It attracted hundreds of people who were looking for something a little bit different to eat this Christmas . |
| 22 | We had the potent , theoretical motivator of vast unemployment in the area , and those who were working for us were considered to be the fortunate . |
| 23 | And all the other farmers were paying the guys who were working for them on the side , ten pound a day , for working from nine o'clock in the morning till about five at night . |
| 24 | In the mid-1970's Zelaya was imprisoned for 2½ years for his part in the murders of two priests and five peasants who were agitating for land reform . |
| 25 | A total of 38 Japanese MPs submitted a petition to the Myanma embassy in Tokyo on Dec. 22 expressing deep concern " about the military 's suppression and murder of those who were demonstrating for democracy , freedom of speech and the enforcement of a general election next year " . |
| 26 | Earlier , on Oct. 7 , in Temuco , southern Chile , police using tear gas and riot vehicles dispersed 1,500 Mapuche Indians who were demonstrating for land rights and against the current state visit of Crown Prince Felipe of Spain . |
| 27 | These differences can be seen quite early on ; we have found boys aged 14 years who were opting for science to be significantly more authoritarian than their peers . |
| 28 | East Hampshire district and Hampshire County Councils were aware of this family , who were waiting for a house to become available . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Each had photographs and memories that they longed to share with their families who were waiting for them back at Heathrow . |