Example sentences of "and i [was/were] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She thought he would say nothing more , then he went on slowly , ‘ Gabriella and I were engaged for only three months . |
| 2 | My brother and I were booked for a 5 day course on Harperig Reservoir , with one instructor and a group of about 10 children . |
| 3 | Do you know what she said last night , after I 'd told her what Dieter and I were planning for next week ? |
| 4 | After several days of rain , my wife and I were praying for sun . |
| 5 | After several days of rain , my wife and I were praying for sun . |
| 6 | If you and I were working for an organization which gave say half a million to charity , our , I mean correct me if I 'm wrong , but I , I 'm sure our temptation would be to say how can we promote this giving in the media in order , let's be honest about it , to make our , us look good , partly that would be it . |
| 7 | And Jerry and I were posing for pictures … ’ |
| 8 | ‘ As soon as they reported it , Ipuky was informed and I was sent for . ’ |
| 9 | I think these things were not common in those days and I was looking for someone who had great potential , and decided I 'd found it in David Bowie . |
| 10 | There were a lot of distractions , and I was looking for the . |
| 11 | We were living here and there , and I was looking for investors , so we gave a care-of-Cook 's address . |
| 12 | And I was looking for real ones this time . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | You look at a crowd of people , er last , a week , a week yesterday at Wembley at the Billy Graham mission there , er we were sitting in one place and I was looking for , for some other folk and I knew approximately where they were and there I was stand , they were , all you could really see was this mass of people , very difficult to pick out individuals within them but God does n't see it as a mass like that . |
| 15 | I broke the new FIFA laws and I was punished for it . |
| 16 | While waiting for the call-up , various opportunities or openings of an official nature came my way , and I was summoned for interview , usually at extremely short notice , in connection with some of them . |
| 17 | And I was angered for the dynasty |
| 18 | When it was time to leave and I was waiting for the car to take me back to the station for the journey back , I have to confess that I shed a tear or two . |
| 19 | Lewis Luther was there within five minutes , and I was waiting for him in the foyer by Purvis 's desk . |
| 20 | He said : ‘ We would have been about 13 and I was playing for South London district and Ian was in the Blackheath team , which also had Paul Elliott in it . |
| 21 | It was down the pasture near Lartington on a day during the last war , when the weather was very bad and I was going for the bus to Barnard Castle . |
| 22 | So I was particularly pleased to find at one point , when I 'd indulged in a lengthy photo session , that the rest of the party had gone over the brow and out of sight and I was left for a while with the world to myself . |
| 23 | At least it felt like it was my own money and I was working for it . |