Example sentences of "he was [v-ing] [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ft informed us that he was leaving Salamanca for England on his motor bike , via Cherbourg , and that we could expect him in Bath on a certain day . |
| 2 | Lee Kuan Yew 's son Lee Hsien Loong took over Goh 's post as PAP first assistant secretary-general and remained a Deputy Prime Minister ; however , he had given up the Trade and Industry portfolio in mid-November after announcing that he was undergoing treatment for cancer . |
| 3 | THE former prime minister of Pakistan , Mohammad Khan Junejo , has died of a heart attack in Baltimore in the United States , where he was undergoing treatment for leukaemia . |
| 4 | As late as November 1927 he was revising poems for inclusion in Winter Words , the book with which he intended to mark his 90th birthday , but on 11 December , as Professor Millgate writes , ‘ he found himself , for the first time in his life , quite unable to work ’ . |
| 5 | On his last visit to Swindon , he was keeping goal for Oxford United , though his happiest memories are of playing for Hereford . |
| 6 | At his son 's home in Hayes , Middlesex , Mr Murphy , 52 , said he was contemplating action for damages over his treatment . |
| 7 | From eighty six to eighty nine he was planning spokesperson for Portsmouth City Council and in nineteen eighty nine he was a candidate for the Euro election fo for and East Hants , coming second with fifty one thousand votes . |
| 8 | He was doing time for debt , as I recall . |
| 9 | He abused his inheritance , behaved extravagantly , and nearly got his comeuppance from the weasels — a violent proletariat who squatted in his house while he was doing time for car theft . |
| 10 | Before he went to school , he was opening doors for ladies and addressing all the adult men around him — from the footman to Prince Philip — as ‘ sir ’ . |