Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] for some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the next hour the fairground gradually filled with people , mainly families with young children or teenagers who had become bored with their tour round the factory and were looking for some excitement . |
| 2 | Yeah and then we were looking for some carpeting were n't we ? |
| 3 | We did n't expect it to last as long as it has , and were hoping for some relief by the end of the year . |
| 4 | She was in pain , but she was taking it out on a complicated Fair Isle jumper that she was knitting for some nephew in Canada . |
| 5 | I was looking for some short-cut to getting a complete description of who you are . |
| 6 | We were just walking away , and I was looking for some sort of rubbish container in which to put the bag of icing sugar , when we suddenly heard all those sirens going , and saw masses of policemen running into the park . |
| 7 | Tormented , Eliot was searching for some sort of salvation . |
| 8 | Did he think she was lying for some reason ? |
| 9 | An uncomfortable pause while he sat forward on the sofa holding his coffee cup in both hands and gazing into it as if he was waiting for some kind of chemical reaction . |
| 10 | He was speaking for some time and when he had finished he turned to his wife . |
| 11 | I was hoping for some money , as I was saving frantically to buy the owl for myself . |
| 12 | The University denied it was hoping for some form of financial benefit from the visit . |
| 13 | The Shah 's enemies saw the move differently , The fact that they was now lingering in the area , first in Egypt an now Morocco , rather than proceeding straight to the United States as announced , inevitably aroused the suspicion that he was hoping for some sort of repeat of 1953 . |
| 14 | She was longing for some peace and privacy , believing that now the wedding was over she would slip back into relative obscurity . |