Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] for he " in BNC.
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| 1 | The media , in the meantime , were clamouring for him to marry . |
| 2 | All night he had laboured in prayer and watching , then rising and sitting in his chair , as it were made new for the occasion , which had been placed before the chimney in his parlour , and in the midst of his chaplains , servants and officers who were praying for him , he expired as if sleeping , and without a groan yielded up his spirit most purely to his Creator . " |
| 3 | Travelling on a false passport made out in the name of James Richardson , Bourke travelled by train from London to Paris ( apparently without encountering any problems with the police who were searching for him ) , and thence by air to Berlin where he crossed into the eastern sector and shortly afterwards was flown to Moscow to be reunited with Blake . |
| 4 | When Philip was alone in the wood he imagined all sorts of things about the planes , that they were enemy planes bombing Thirkett , that they were on reconnaissance flights spying , that they were looking for him : a crashed pilot hiding out in the wood . |
| 5 | When the ladies retired , the husband explained that the message had been very embarrassing to his wife since her uncle had disappeared with £70,000 and the police were looking for him . |
| 6 | What makes this particular story so tragic is that while Jeremy fought to survive , no doubt focusing his efforts on the hope that we were looking for him , a succession of minor acts of negligence , committed by both the Spanish authorities and the British Consul , conspired to delay a proper search being mounted . |
| 7 | I think Andy offered to let Howie hole up in the hotel while the cops were looking for him , and everybody else up there just assumes Howie 's offshore at the moment . ’ |
| 8 | In France and South Africa , all over the world , the police were looking for him . |
| 9 | They were look they were waiting for him , they were looking for him they were expecting him |
| 10 | The palace was surrounded by a crowd who were shouting for him to speak . |
| 11 | Black clouds were rolling up over the forest to his right , which now looked hostile , as though it were waiting for him to make a false move ; to tall perhaps , so that it could advance and swallow him , like a wild animal . |
| 12 | He had left and walked back to the hotel , and by the time he reached it the police were waiting for him in the lobby . |
| 13 | In fact they had known all about Crabb 's venture before they arrived at Portsmouth and their frogmen were waiting for him as he approached the cruiser . |
| 14 | Two officers of Davout 's staff were waiting for him . |
| 15 | Eventually Karl was released and the deportation order lifted on a promise by the RCM that accommodation and a job were waiting for him . |
| 16 | Elder Beach and Elder Wiggs were waiting for him . |
| 17 | What other surprises were waiting for him ? |
| 18 | It was partly because he got a weird buzz out of scaring himself half to death , and partly because he felt it was a kind of exorcism , to convince him he had control over his fears — and the horrors that were waiting for him round the corner of sleep . |
| 19 | He cleared the image and , for a while sat there , conscious that they were waiting for him to say what was on his mind . |
| 20 | All too quickly , he was back in Fagin 's house , where his old friends were waiting for him . |
| 21 | The family were waiting for him . |
| 22 | His search , the place where he was needed , had now become the auditorium , the balcony where his friends were waiting for him . |
| 23 | Of course , they were waiting for him , the sheriff 's men . |
| 24 | Ranulf and Dame Agatha were waiting for him near the Galilee Gate , the young nun apparently enjoying an account of one of his manservant 's many escapades in London . |
| 25 | Kate and a couple of her team-mates from IMP were waiting for him , and he shook his head at them . |
| 26 | When at 10.45am we had resigned ourselves to a day of swimming and sunbathing a farmer pulled up and asked , in German , if we were waiting for him . |
| 27 | Here we had a man who we knew had serious problems that constituted a danger to himself and others , and we sat back , simply because we were waiting for him to admit he had a problem . ’ |
| 28 | Unknown to him , two people were waiting for him , ’ the lawyer said . |
| 29 | They were look they were waiting for him , they were looking for him they were expecting him |
| 30 | They were calling for him , whistling shrilly , stamping their feet . |