Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [v-ing] for [det] [noun] " 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 | He said that it was like taking dictation , ‘ as if I was ghosting for another man ’ . |
| 4 | I was hoping for some money , as I was saving frantically to buy the owl for myself . |
| 5 | Mind you , when I was skivvying for that Brixton fam'ly , the head of the fam'ly did n't 'alf take a fancy to me . ’ |
| 6 | She and her best friend cried when they heard I was leaving for another job . |
| 7 | less than an hour , oh I was waiting for those results well I 'd drink me tea as well obviously but |
| 8 | When I went to Drake Hall on one sentence I was waiting for another court case as well , a conspiracy case , a big one . |
| 9 | I was waiting for another piglet and whoops , there it was . |
| 10 | Well that 's what I thought I was going for this morning as well as that one . |
| 11 | Not really no , I was working for another firm by this time . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Fabia arose on Sunday morning , thought of Cara , of Barney , and of the man she had never yet met but , with guilty conscience , hoped to , and then attempted to shed her anxieties by remembering that , with Františkovy Láznë being less than twenty-five miles away , Františkovy Láznë was where she was heading for that day . |
| 14 | Did he think she was lying for some reason ? |
| 15 | She was longing for some peace and privacy , believing that now the wedding was over she would slip back into relative obscurity . |
| 16 | The University denied it was hoping for some form of financial benefit from the visit . |
| 17 | The overseers of the poor in Frome must have asked themselves very much this same question ; at one time or another something between a quarter and a half of the population of Britain were to receive parish relief in the late 18th century — and the £l , 970 per annum it was costing for such relief in Frome in 1792 would rise to a staggering £11,723 per annum by 1831 . |
| 18 | When I left , he was calling for more beer . |
| 19 | He is flipping useless and it is time that he was looking for another job . |
| 20 | He was speaking for some time and when he had finished he turned to his wife . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He said he was coming for some gnocchi tonight . |
| 24 | ‘ Did he say anything about where he was going for this meeting ? ’ |