Example sentences of "[adv] what [pron] were [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what we were looking for was something more er erm |
| 2 | ‘ They said he was just what they were looking for , ’ Beverley said yesterday at home in Alwoodley , Leeds . |
| 3 | Mr Carter , who is business development manager at ICI Billingham , says he knew the instant it was described to him over the phone that the property was just what they were looking for . |
| 4 | Maybe his fish and chips and his welding background are not what they were looking for , though in Middlesbrough they would seem to be born for each other . |
| 5 | Ships in harbour are safe but that is not what they were built for . |
| 6 | The proprietor , Gordon McLeod-Crossley believed the burglars knew exactly what they were looking for when they took a BSA .22 and a Rellum .22 . |
| 7 | It is believed there must have been at least three people who knew exactly what they were looking for . |
| 8 | The third reading , for instance , was slower than the first , despite the fact that you knew exactly what you were looking for . |
| 9 | I just wanted to come back on er David Potter 's assertion that we were looking for a a higher allocation under I five and I I thought I 'd specifically covered that point by saying that that was n't what we were looking for because that would n't address the sort of development we 're talking about here . |