Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She trusted him , for her own part , without reserve or doubt ; but she was trusting him for those who crossed the river and took the risks . |
| 2 | The boyish expression transformed the hard planes of his face and she stared at him as if she was seeing him for the first time . |
| 3 | Since then , I had managed to film them on their wintering grounds in India , but now I was seeing them for the first time at the other end of the journey . |
| 4 | He gave her a long , slow look as if he was seeing her for the first time . |
| 5 | I had no idea she was using me for a purpose of her own : I was too naive to realise until it dawned on me what it was , a few weeks later . |
| 6 | The order was for the production of material relating to the purchase by a client , Mrs G , of certain real property , the allegation being that she was a member of the family of another person who was suspected of being a drug trafficker and who was using her for the purpose of laundering the proceeds of such trafficking . |
| 7 | Who do you imagine it was using you for target practice this afternoon ? ’ |
| 8 | I had the uncanny feeling that the ghost of Sigmund Freud was chiding me for thinking this and she was clearly incensed that I could suggest that her father could have had any interest in religion whatsoever . |
| 9 | He said that he believed he had lawful authority to ride the bike because he was repairing it for a friend . |
| 10 | ‘ She was representing him for his life . ’ |
| 11 | When it disappeared from the catalogue and by chance I was offered a knighthood , I always said that the Queen , coming as she does from an angling family , was compensating me for having had my name taken out of Hardy 's catalogue . |
| 12 | She was pressing it for dear life now as if she was in a panic , and she kept her finger on it until , through the glass door , she saw the flicker of a candle weaving its way down through the shop . |
| 13 | I was keeping it for cleaning the car . |
| 14 | Barbara Newington from Connecticut remembered shaking hands effusively with Reagan at the beginning and end of her audience , and each of them saying thank you to the other ; but precisely what she was thanking him for , and what he was thanking her for , neither said . |
| 15 | Barbara Newington from Connecticut remembered shaking hands effusively with Reagan at the beginning and end of her audience , and each of them saying thank you to the other ; but precisely what she was thanking him for , and what he was thanking her for , neither said . |
| 16 | ‘ Well — I was thanking Him for you . |
| 17 | ‘ Perhaps she was saving it for you . ’ |
| 18 | Mrs Verity 's expenditure turned out to be far more than she guessed and their decisions were also affected because the bank was overcharging them for a time . |
| 19 | I mean I w when I was dropping dead with exhaustion one evening I said to him look Tony , the there 's I 've cooked a chicken , there 's a big chicken cooling on the table and there there were red sauce , potatoes , gravy , I said , stick the lot on a plate a micro and , you know , film it over , microwave it oh well I sha n't bother to eat anything now of course he was paying me for his food |
| 20 | The subsequent chronology of the licences , as well as the varying charges for them , reveal that the king was granting them for political and financial ends , to make friends and raise cash , particularly from the late 1290s when he desperately needed both . |
| 21 | Her tail burned like a furnace ; and yet she was presenting it for more torment . |
| 22 | and so this guy was selling it for forty , Vicky ordered her canoe there and he was quite a young man and so alright she said hi big boy how about letting me have it for thirty five if you 're willing to ha are you willing to haggle I mean my friend did buy a whole canoe he sort of |
| 23 | Antoinette was being a pest , as usual , and Tante Héloise was scolding me for not wanting to play with her . ’ |
| 24 | No one would have guessed she was wearing it for any other reason . |
| 25 | ‘ I thought Oliver was getting them for Rosie . ’ |
| 26 | Neil Williams ( see the September issue ) was flying it for him and , the initial tests complete and the aeroplane signed off by Mike Searle , Spencer was ready for his first sortie . |
| 27 | She wondered whether Bryony was offended ; perhaps she thought Carolyn was criticizing them for not keeping it cleaner . |
| 28 | He was teaching us for er physics and er |
| 29 | Can you not see what erm er this woman fainted into my arms and she was embracing me for letting her not take her fall . |
| 30 | Although he believed thoroughly in the ability of these products to fill out the tiny character lines around the eyes and mouth , and to smooth his neck , he did not want to admit he was buying them for himself . |