Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [was/were] [v-ing] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did bring a picture with him : one of Gifford 's that Edwin was going to frame for us . ’ |
| 2 | In particular , they felt that enterprises in both Britain and Germany were having to cater for increasingly small market niches rather than for homogeneous mass markets . |
| 3 | Claudia started more coffee , reflecting that if Dana was going to stay for any length of time she would need fresh supplies . |
| 4 | At the end of May Dorothy could write to her brother Richard that ‘ William has now some poems in the Bristol press ’ ; and by mid-September , just as Coleridge and Wordsworth were preparing to leave for Germany , the Lyrical Ballads were at last ready to be offered to an indifferent public . |
| 5 | Dicke and Peebles were preparing to look for this radiation when Penzias and Wilson heard about their work and realized that they had already found it . |
| 6 | Preston and Wigan were having to apply for re-election having finished in the bottom two places of the Pontins League 's second division . |