Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] for some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was looking for some short-cut to getting a complete description of who you are . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I was hoping for some money , as I was saving frantically to buy the owl for myself . |
| 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 | Did he think she was lying for some reason ? |
| 6 | She was longing for some peace and privacy , believing that now the wedding was over she would slip back into relative obscurity . |
| 7 | It implies for example , it was created for some kind of purpose . |
| 8 | The University denied it was hoping for some form of financial benefit from the visit . |
| 9 | And even if a structural , timber can be dated , there is always the possibility that it was stored for some time between being felled and being used , or even that it was re-used timber salvaged from an earlier building . |
| 10 | The market might be held several days a week , and if , like the great Cotswold wood marts at Cirencester , Tetbury and so forth , it was noted for some speciality , business might be attracted from well outside the five-mile radius considered reasonable for day-to-day requirements in the Middle Ages . |
| 11 | He was speaking for some time and when he had finished he turned to his wife . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It was very nearly a great voice and sometimes , when Gesner was on form , when he was forced for some reason to try hard , it was a great voice . |
| 15 | While your brain is doing that it will be storing the words so that when you look at your sheet of nouns you will recall what was said for some while after it was actually said . |