Example sentences of "was [adv] [v-ing] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sitting on the veranda herself a short while later as she worked on a lacy white shawl she was secretly knitting for the baby , Belinda murmured aloud , ‘ I hope Tom comes today . |
| 2 | I wandered off to find Jack Mason and my parents and saw Toby , who was obviously heading for the Press tent , the conference with the winner , and several post-tournament drinks . |
| 3 | She knew he was only pretending for the benefit of their audience . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , God help him , poor gentleman , ’ Kate laughed , pleased at male incompetence , ‘ he was only looking for the oven when I got in . |
| 5 | ‘ She was only waiting for the kids to grow up and then she said she 'd leave me . |
| 6 | I came out of the forces , he was only waiting for the time that I came out , for him to retire . |
| 7 | The British government was only waiting for the ECJ to rule ( and its decision was not unexpected ) before reforming the Shops Act . |
| 8 | A national economic policy designed to reduce public expenditure , to liberate enterprise and to eradicate inflation , combined with a determination to limit local-government spending and intervention , was extremely damaging for the cities and their economies in the early 1980s . |
| 9 | It was impossible she should be unaware of the treat she was thus providing for the soldiery , many of whom expressed their appreciation in appropriately ribald terms . |
| 10 | erm Darwin says in the origin , and I 'm sorry I ca n't read it to you , but I was desperately looking for the quotation in the origin before I can and I could n't find it but I assure you it 's there erm in which he remarks that in all probability the periods of time during which species are not changing is probably very large compared with those periods when change is taking place . |
| 11 | Her hand was already reaching for the telephone when a large shape loomed in what now became recognisable as a doorway . |
| 12 | Winking broadly in Lindsey 's direction , he was already heading for the door . |
| 13 | There was no discernible motion , but Rostov guessed that the pod was already heading for the surface of Tarvaras . |
| 14 | ‘ I heard on good authority that Albert Reynolds sent an emissary to the north to make sure it was understood that Spring was not speaking for the government . |
| 15 | The following day , before the final results were declared , Madani demanded the dissolution of the National Assembly after his party 's surprise victory , although he stressed that he was not calling for the replacement of President Chadli Bendjedid , whose third five-year term would not expire until 1993 . |
| 16 | Campbeltown took the brunt of the shot and shell , her captain — Lieutenant-Commander S. ( Sam ) H. Beattie RN — blinded by search-lights yet making last-minute corrections to her course when a rift in the smoke showed she was not heading for the caisson , still 700 yards upriver . |
| 17 | He was yesterday caring for the boys , aged four and six . |
| 18 | He was always looking for the beginning of something , and he had the energy of someone starting their career . |
| 19 | He was always looking for the catch . |
| 20 | I was always heading for the carvery and eating too much . |
| 21 | I was always heading for the carvery and eating too much . |
| 22 | Tony was always preparing for the future with David and with MainMan , so he was always two or three steps ahead of himself . |
| 23 | I was always waiting for the day when I would be beaten up , but it never came . |
| 24 | Graham swung the Makarova on Al-Makesh who was still reaching for the Beretta . |
| 25 | He claimed that Ferrara and Faenza had been promised to papal authority in 757 as part of the Exarchate of Ravenna before Desiderius became king and while he was still struggling for the crown with his rival King Ratchis . |
| 26 | He was still looking for the end of the war and the land fit for heroes to live in . |
| 27 | ‘ I was still waiting for the doctor to arrive . |
| 28 | ‘ 'Then some asshole of a journalist printed a story that he was still working for the Company and a couple of weeks later the Red Brigade snatched both of them . |
| 29 | He was still driving for the McLaren team , this time with the amiable German Jochen Mass , but the team had fallen on relatively lean times , and Emerson , a man short on patience and long on a sense of his own worth — and with two championships to his name — was a sometimes angry and often frustrated man . |
| 30 | But the London and North-Western and the Great Western Railway companies were criticized for their poor provision of workmen 's trains in 1892 and a parliamentary select committee was still pressing for the provision of cheap trains for workers in 1905 . |