Example sentences of "[conj] i [was/were] [v-ing] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only the ferryman on the Oban/Lismore boat knew that I was aiming for the northern ferry to mainland Port Appin . |
| 2 | I vaguely remembered reminding mum last night that I was looking for the rest of Uncle Rory 's papers . |
| 3 | I remember excusing this by saying that I was waiting for the police and that nothing should be touched until they had come . |
| 4 | You would think that I was asking for the earth to be changed but I 'm not really . |
| 5 | I had become more and more interested in the business world , going back to work at the bank in Newcastle during my vacations , so I was looking for a general business career . ’ |
| 6 | Okay , so I was looking for a politically active , fat , drunk kleptomaniac . |
| 7 | If you and I were working for an organization which gave say half a million to charity , our , I mean correct me if I 'm wrong , but I , I 'm sure our temptation would be to say how can we promote this giving in the media in order , let's be honest about it , to make our , us look good , partly that would be it . |
| 8 | There were a lot of distractions , and I was looking for the . |
| 9 | When it was time to leave and I was waiting for the car to take me back to the station for the journey back , I have to confess that I shed a tear or two . |
| 10 | It was down the pasture near Lartington on a day during the last war , when the weather was very bad and I was going for the bus to Barnard Castle . |
| 11 | When I returned to Moose Jaw about mid-August I had a long talk with Fred Workman , who told me he had noticed a certain restlessness in me as if I were hoping for a change of scene . |
| 12 | If I were looking for a record deal , I would be pursuing individual A&R people , getting them to come and see my band . |
| 13 | If I were looking for a fault with the conception of the series , it could only be that it lacks a single volume overview of the whole of the development of quantum theory , a volume concentrating on the broad sweep of ideas and leaving out the mathematical detail . |
| 14 | I 'm about to invest in a brand new , superduper , anti-obsolescence computer and I feel as confident as if I were shopping for a pair of skis . |
| 15 | And occasionally if I was looking for a magazine to buy , it would get a lot of i good information in it too . |
| 16 | At £12,260 the Aura TD is not particularly cheap but it would certainly be near the top of my shopping list if I was looking for a medium-sized diesel hatchback . |
| 17 | Violet Sangston found me while I was searching for a hiding-place . |
| 18 | He rang while I was reaching for the phone . |
| 19 | We had adopted them while I was preparing for the desert . |
| 20 | When I remarked that this was a pity , since I was looking for a peat replacement to acidify limey soil , my man began detectably to back-pedal . |
| 21 | Whilst I was working for the council , someone came to ask and we had some new o new officer appointed and he was very worried about getting ca er p permission from the council to launch a sewer scheme that was going to cost a quarter of a million pounds , a very large amount in those days . |
| 22 | I actually first realised this at the second year , that when I was looking for the , the previous year , I noticed that in July the business went and I thought , because everybody 's gone on holiday . |
| 23 | I remember a graphic example of this when I was working for a blessedly short period as a Russian interpreter in Berlin in 1946 . |
| 24 | ‘ The personnel officer insisted I saw this 41-year-old woman when I was interviewing for a new secretary , ’ says Gina , a 30-year-old manager in a retail company . |
| 25 | My peg was on a gravel point , it looked perfect for the stick float but as I was fishing for a good weight I opted to start on the feeder . |
| 26 | For I was looking for a job I was newly married in nineteen thirty six make a pound or two . |