Example sentences of "was [v-ing] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fly , whose buzzing had been driving me insane , was struggling for life . |
| 2 | Mr Wolski thought of his friend the eagle who was struggling for life through this long night Then he did something he had not done for years , for decades , since before the darkness came to his own life in the Second World War : he said a silent prayer . |
| 3 | It showed that beneath the granite exterior emotion did exist , even if it was struggling for survival . |
| 4 | She thought again of waking him , for he was struggling for breath in his sleep . |
| 5 | She loved Bobbie for his devotion and loyalty to her in the days when she had few friends and was struggling for recognition . |
| 6 | The press was clamouring for blood and Lord Harris told Robertson that he would have to tender his resignation to the academic advisory council . |
| 7 | On a different plane , it may be noted that just before 1984 's seven-country G7 economic summit in London , Japan was clamouring for access , in the event of a supply disruption , to the US SPR . |
| 8 | ‘ When he told me he was panning for gold , I simply did n't believe it . |
| 9 | So I did n't make a loss but I did n't make a profit on the bit of space that I need that I was using for storage cos I thought it was only fair to the poor bloke . |
| 10 | I did his tape copy on the machine I was using for echo and it was switched to vari-speed , so the copy was played at almost half the speed and when he got it home and wanted to play it to his friends , it sounded rather strange . |
| 11 | Balor was bellowing for help ; he was calling down vengeance on the Trees and promising that Inchbad and the Robemaker and the Master CuRoi would certainly punish the Trees for this . |
| 12 | She did n't want Roman thinking she was angling for sympathy . |
| 13 | On his Saturday evening visit , while he was canvassing for Communion , I had to tell him that I was n't confirmed . |
| 14 | ‘ The stewardess thought he was weeping for happiness at being free . |
| 15 | When they reached Sukarno 's residence , Sjahrir burst in upon them to say that Japan was sueing for peace . |
| 16 | She was angry at the time , and she was praying for guidance as to what to do with her life . |
| 17 | Among its first acts in office , the new government , committed to sweeping economic reforms aimed at the introduction of a market-based economy , announced on Dec. 11 , 1989 , that Czechoslovakia was applying for membership of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and the World Bank . |
| 18 | This appears especially curious as the issue of providing powers was assuming considerable national importance for the WEA which in 1929 was pressing for retention of its Chapter III providing powers during the Board of Education 's review of the 1924 Regulations . |
| 19 | Gömbös supported a German-Hungarian-Italian axis and by 1938 a Hungarian Nazi party , the Arrow Cross , had been formed and was agitating for land reform and a restoration of the old frontiers . |
| 20 | He recalled how on one occasion when on a sea rescue in the English Channel a person obviously in fear of drowning was shouting for help . |
| 21 | I met Dr Johannsen , the senior therapist at the local hospital , when I was hunting for wood on the beach at Cator . |
| 22 | At the time I was writing for Bicycle Times and one day Dick 's Arctic footpath came to mind . |
| 23 | He was looking for space in which to dump two sacks of garden fertiliser . |
| 24 | I was looking for space for something , I 've forgotten what it wa Oh I had a big spreadsheet |
| 25 | Leapor 's only way of striking back at her father to whom she was looking for support , was , by this reasoning , to write a poem as a cathartic fantasy . |
| 26 | They say he was looking for evidence of natura naturans ‘ all-creating nature ’ , rather than natura naturata , ‘ the made world ’ ; in certain seventeenth- and eighteenth-century writing of unimpeachable orthodoxy reference is made to anima mundi , a spirit pervading the world and supplying the continuing presence of God . |
| 27 | But he seemed to think because you 'd had your stroke almost a year ago that I should be over it ; his exact words were that I was looking for sympathy . |
| 28 | On arrival , however , Mr Cristiani said he was looking for reconciliation and wanted a ceasefire in El Salvador . |
| 29 | On arrival , however , Mr Cristiani said he was looking for reconciliation and wanted a ceasefire in El Salvador . |
| 30 | I was a child who 'd lost his own mother , and was looking for affection . |