Example sentences of "[conj] we were [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as accountants , although we were respected for our expertise , like lawyers , our work was entirely reactive rather than proactive , ’ says Mr Riley . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ The voice of George Sanders gave the character the right blend of conceit , disdain and intelligence that we were looking for . ’ |
| 4 | Erm , I ca n't remember the exact conversation but the basics of it were that we were looking for somebody called Lawrence and he was at the present time at erm and that he was in possession of a gun and that the caller was concerned for the safety of the occupants of those premises . |
| 5 | But what er , I said , told Pete because I had another call when you were at lunch I think and erm he said he 'd heard rumours that we were looking for somebody . |
| 6 | I just wanted to come back on er David Potter 's assertion that we were looking for a a higher allocation under I five and I I thought I 'd specifically covered that point by saying that that was n't what we were looking for because that would n't address the sort of development we 're talking about here . |
| 7 | Photographer Sandra Lousada , who produces lots of our favourite pictures , took so many gorgeous shots that we were spoilt for choice . |
| 8 | We must move from the idea that the animals were given to us and made for us , to the idea that we were made for creation , to serve it and ensure its continuance . |
| 9 | We never had much to eat in ordinary times , but we had less now and us kids were really glad of the extra slice of bread and jam that we were given for our school breakfast . |
| 10 | ‘ People asked me and Derrick what we were doing over the past two years and the answer that I want to give is that we were waiting for everybody to catch up . |
| 11 | You have seen that we were waiting for you . |
| 12 | All he could say was that we were waiting for something to happen . ’ |
| 13 | NSS , in common with virtually every other publication in the country , got its fingers burnt last week as a result of giving too much credence to the pollsters ' consistent message that we were heading for a hung parliament . |
| 14 | We did n't know that we were asking for impossible things , because we had never worked in the record business before — and we 'd get them . |
| 15 | Basically this calls for an identification of present requirements and an assessment of likely requirements over the next 5 years , subject to review/upgrading in year 6 ; it may be that our letter conveyed the impression that we were asking for a ‘ 12-year plan ’ , this is not the case . |
| 16 | I mean we 'll be back to the scenario that we were fighting for three years ago . |
| 17 | Mornings were frost-blue , breath turned to fog and we were dressed for a cold day in the Himalayas , cocooned in pile clothing and moonboots . |
| 18 | It was cloudy enough to require full IFR flight , and we were cleared for the ILS at Vigo , but had to refuse since the VOR/DME there was out of order and there is no additional locator beacon to find the beam . |
| 19 | And it was quite quiet for a little bit because most of them had established themselves and we were waiting for a breakout and er we did n't get on the move again until the they went through the after it had been . |
| 20 | He chose a wonderful day , a really glorious day , and we were going for a picnic , there were blue skies and white sand , and he asked me to marry him . |
| 21 | Well we started off and we were working for . |
| 22 | And we were working for for fourteen pound at that time . |
| 23 | If we were searching for this record , a comparison with the ‘ key ’ of the first block would be low , and of the second , high . |
| 24 | We were in a sort of back room , and at one point we gave a particularly loud whoop at a particularly long word and a waiter looked in to see if we were calling for anything and then went away . |
| 25 | ‘ If we were to go for full indexation , ’ said Jacek Kuron , the Labour Minister , ‘ there would be a mountain of money on the market leading to enormous price increases , with all the dangers that implies , especially for the poor . ’ |
| 26 | The truth is , if we were looking for people to blame for the fact that the once-great club are now Division Three favourites , referee Brian Coddington would come a long way down the list . |
| 27 | Right if we were looking for a fifteenth , say we were looking for a fifteenth what would make |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But we were hoping for a much rarer black bird … |
| 30 | It was a calculated risk to take a man without forensic experience , but we were looking for a manager primarily . |