Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [art] [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was knitting a jumper for Nora , ’ she said . |
| 2 | Knight became aware in April last year that Betts was producing the assembly for L'Oreal , but only for the European market . |
| 3 | Said Paul McKane : ‘ My wife was cooking a burger for Stuart on the grill . |
| 4 | He was catching the coach for Scunthorpe . |
| 5 | Barbara Coleman ignored him , she said to Maurin : ‘ Sabine admitted to me she was painting the pictures for Durance . |
| 6 | The similar move by Singapore followed allegations that the country was becoming a centre for trade in endangered species . |
| 7 | Detroit was paving the way for Mueller to take over and run the whole bloody show from America . |
| 8 | , wrote Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations published in the year Sheridan was writing The School for Scandal , . |
| 9 | Sydney Doran , 25 , was serving a sentence for robbery and theft at the time of the disturbance two years ago . |
| 10 | Shortly before his death Crosse was petitioning the king for relief in 1611 , or to be allowed to hide his poverty abroad . |
| 11 | W.G. Grace was taking part in a match for London County against Warwickshire , opening the batting with W.L. Murdoch and playing in a fashion which reminded contemporary reporters of his heyday , and C.B. Fry was scoring a century for Sussex . |
| 12 | Rees was testing the limbs for flexion . |
| 13 | Mrs. Makanjuola was suing the police for damages for alleged sexual assault and buggery and to that end was seeking discovery of all relevant documents resulting from an investigation under section 49 of the Police Act 1964 and the police disciplinary proceedings which followed . |
| 14 | For a man who was leading the campaign for sanctions against South Africa , when that was still a hopeless liberal cause , he has been notably diffident about such things as collective punishment and detention without trial in the Israeli-occupied territories . |
| 15 | The blazer badge reinforced the ‘ capture of bodies ’ philosophy which had sustained our earlier lives , but was created at the same time that I was compiling a paper for presentation at the national BMA police surgeons ' conference . |
| 16 | I was conducting a search for arms . ’ |
| 17 | Mr Hignet [ the tobacco baron ] was holding a fete for charity . |
| 18 | ‘ No time to say really — but we were just about off , and I was holding the books for Dad when he said , ‘ I 'd best get those papers for old Holroyd . ’ |
| 19 | When Chola was kneading the dough for ro is , tired after a day 's work in the fields , exasperated by the twins ' hungry grizzling , the chickens flapping around the bowl and the dogs ' beady eyes , she 'd lash out , screaming , and the red bitch would yelp exaggeratedly and skulk off to a corner . |
| 20 | They 're taking it away so was doing a tape for grandma and granddad and Keith was going , he was going hello grandma and granddad it 's Kenny you know like the three of them and he was going , whoop whoop whoop oh da ! |
| 21 | About three years ago I was running a workshop for students training to be secondary teachers at the Institute of Education in London , something I and colleagues have been doing annually for the last ten years or so . |
| 22 | Turns out he was running the place for charity ! |
| 23 | Entry into this trial ( as opposed to the SOLVD treatment trial ) required that the patient had no symptoms and was taking no treatment for heart failure . |
| 24 | Glassford had declared his intention of supporting Lord Dundas 's interest in the election , but when he was visited by Alexander Bruce of Kennet , who was managing the election for Lord Dundas , ‘ we really found all not so right ’ . |
| 25 | He telephoned his secretary from Heathrow to say he was boarding a flight for New York . ’ |
| 26 | The court said , however , obiter , that he would be guilty of the offence if he was storing the articles for use by others ( i.e. " use " need not be his use ) or if the accused intended to use the article for any burglary . |
| 27 | She spent much time in Geneva , working on behalf of the women 's disarmament committee , which was preparing a petition for disarmament prior to the Geneva disarmament conference of 1932 . |
| 28 | Well it was a wee bit under because I was only an office clerk , I , I was n't the junior but by then had come there and there were other , other clerks , some girls who 'd come into the office and I 'd got a little bit of step up you see and took over a little bit more important work , erm , I did just before I went in the Army have a dabble at erm running times , that was preparing the schedules for buses . |
| 29 | The doctor who was advertising himself this is Mr from Northfield , the doctor who was advertising the cure for baldness is going bald himself , so obviously the cure is n't working . |
| 30 | Carey was scouring the countryside for provisions . |