Example sentences of "was [v-ing] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She studied it carefully as though it were some unfamiliar object she was seeing for the first time . |
| 2 | Soon America was clamouring for the dollar to be let in : its burden of debt to oil-rich countries , which since the late 1990s had refused payment in dollars , had become too great . |
| 3 | Lester was producing for the first time , after his experience with A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Forum . |
| 4 | Precisely who it was she was using for a role model became clear as a middle-aged lady , admirably slim in well-cut jodhpurs , erupted from some inner fortress to enquire , in tones that carried effortlessly across the yard , precisely why Caroline had failed to run up her stirrups , how long had she been riding ? |
| 5 | Ferdinand believed Godoy was scheming for a regency to exclude him from the throne ; Godoy knew that Ferdinand was intriguing against him with the French ambassador . |
| 6 | This layout was a physical expression of the administrative structure that Hammond was organizing for the office particularly , as Mary Anderson points out , the special status awarded to the Under Secretaries and their political departments , by placing them on the same level as the Secretary of State . |
| 7 | Within a year , he was cooking for the Royal Box and state galas . |
| 8 | While his friends were earning their few pennies for a week 's work as paper-boys and butcher 's assistants , Dave was caddying for a round at Hollinwell , the championship course near his home . |
| 9 | One boy , Dai Knoyle , was caddying for the great rugby player Barry John and took him back to his house to change . |
| 10 | Harry Holmes senior was competing for the last time , having raced thirty-seven times between 1933 and 1969 . |
| 11 | Vickers ' Challenger 2 was competing for the contract with the United States Abrams M1A2 and France 's Leclerc . |
| 12 | Yeah but what I 'm saying is erm the orange disk was flashing for a long while before the buzzer |
| 13 | And the stone seats beside the fire would be replaced with benches , once Cameron brought the rest of the spare timber he had promised from the linen mill he was building for the Flemyngs at Aberfeldy . |
| 14 | He was fumbling for a handkerchief as she hurried up . |
| 15 | A few years later , that sum was awarded to Robert Maxwell for the false suggestion that he was angling for a peerage , while ten times that amount was lavished on Jeffrey Archer in revenge for the suggestion that he had received a sexual favour from a prostitute he had admitted to paying to leave the country . |
| 16 | It kept her going , especially when she was angling for the notice of the one man who , after giving her dinner on the way back from Bovington , had treated her with only a lighthearted pleasant banter whenever they met . |
| 17 | She smiled at him , aware that he was angling for an invitation . |
| 18 | I was apologising for the noise was n't I ? |
| 19 | It was said with a kind of embarrassed formality as if he , not Dalgliesh , were the host and he was apologizing for the unexpected absence of the hostess . |
| 20 | He was opening for a rock band and his playing at that time was the best , for me . |
| 21 | The greatest victory for the Sandinistas , he said , was that a new path was opening for the Nicaraguan people without war and where national interests would prevail over interventionist policies . |
| 22 | These were the very classes whose disruption of bourgeois identity was enabling for a vital , oppositional , and radical modernism . |
| 23 | No doubt he had observed her talking to the Shergolds and was itching for the chance to find out what she knew . |
| 24 | Tom Watson from the US was bidding for the joint record-sixth British Open victory that would make him immortal alongside Harry Vardon . |
| 25 | The deal took place at a public inquiry in 1981 , when the owner , Wedgwood , was applying for a second time for consent to demolish . |
| 26 | At the end of 1866 he had asked the Governors for a testimonial , as he was applying for a post in the Midlands : |
| 27 | Each CV was tailored to a particular post by including a short paragraph explaining why the candidate was applying for the job . |
| 28 | Mr Bragge was applying for an injunction on behalf of French champagne producers Taittinger and the champagne growers ' association , to prevent Mr Woodall and his partner , Mr Ray Bevan , 39 , selling their product in bottles labelled ‘ champagne ’ . |
| 29 | Shortly afterwards I was telephoned by Morgan Phillips , the general secretary of the Labour Party , to say that Randolph had issued a writ for breach of copyright and was applying for an injunction that very afternoon , and would I act on behalf of the Labour Party ? |
| 30 | Moreover it was becoming for the first time , as a result of Peter 's administrative reforms , an institution concerned solely with diplomacy . |