Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] for some [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I was looking for some short-cut to getting a complete description of who you are . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Tormented , Eliot was searching for some sort of salvation . |
| 6 | The October 1990 rate cut was anticipated for some time in advance by the gilt market which bought gilts and drove up gilt prices ( see Fig. 17.3 ) , as was the continued fall in base rates over the next two years . |
| 7 | The commercial terminal was closed for some kind of police operation . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The stage was set for some alignment between the individual , a single political authority , and a single territory , culture and language ; a passive patriotism that was defined by the existence of clear enemies abroad . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | After closure of Woodhead as a through route , the Sheffield to Penistone section was retained for some time in order to allow upgrading of the route via Barnsley . |
| 12 | It implies for example , it was created for some kind of purpose . |
| 13 | The University denied it was hoping for some form of financial benefit from the visit . |
| 14 | 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 . |