Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | So they both were searching for some lost part of themselves this summer . |
| 2 | For the next hour the fairground gradually filled with people , mainly families with young children or teenagers who had become bored with their tour round the factory and were looking for some excitement . |
| 3 | Yeah and then we were looking for some carpeting were n't we ? |
| 4 | they have large pans , but even they were looking for some large pans ! |
| 5 | Answer guide : An opportunity cost is defined as the maximum benefit which could be obtained from a resource if it were used for some alternative purpose than the opportunity under consideration . |
| 6 | The Agia Triadha sarcophagus is invaluable in showing us the funeral ceremonies that were offered for some important person around 1400 BC . |
| 7 | His plans were thwarted for some time as no-one knew what had happened to the trophies . |
| 8 | There was also " … a considerable quantity of small ore which was got at the beginning of the work and can not be weighed until stamped or broken by an Engine and washed for which purpose they are going to erect one to go be water with all speed and were disstressed for some sycamore wood for the water wheel . " |
| 9 | It happened as bride Cathy and her sister Andree from Holywood were going for some official pictures for their album . |
| 10 | Similarly other hard information is scant , for instance James Braid who laid out the ‘ links ’ as they were called for some time , is not mentioned until the sixth meeting on October 29th ; that is four months after the first nine holes were opened , and even then the reference is vague . |
| 11 | Growing cities were governed for some local government purposes by the county magistrates : an indignity that the prosperous entrepreneurs resented . |
| 12 | Although 95 mice were analysed for every marker and are shown in the segregation analysis ( see Figure 6a ) , up to 162 mice were typed for some markers . |
| 13 | It was not that both sides were preparing for some future war to deter the other side . |
| 14 | The rights and wrongs of it were debated for some time and the feeling seemed to be that the TCCB had come out of it in a worse light than Gatting ; as the Melbourne newspaper The Age put it , ‘ Gatting , caught rumour , bowled hypocrisy , 0 ’ . |
| 15 | Maybe scum gangs were uniting for some big upward raid , eh ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But this is so only where the fence etc. was erected with reference to the highway and would probably not apply where the fence was erected for some other reason ( A.G. v Beynon , [ 1969 ] 2 All ER 263 ) . |
| 19 | The best we could do was to arrange for some of our experienced investigators to spend a few days explaining how we worked , and then to attach our visitors to a particular investigation that was current so that they could experience the practical application of our methods . |
| 20 | Half wanting to quit , half determined to persevere he was caught for some moments , indecisive and forlorn . |
| 21 | If Vecchi was the imitation hospital attendant , then he was booked for some free electricity at the State 's expense . |
| 22 | Her new owner was prepared for some difficulty , and so took Anna to a good professional horsebreaker ; but to no avail . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I was looking for some short-cut to getting a complete description of who you are . |
| 25 | I was looking the other day , when I was looking for some of these things . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Celery seeds , I was looking for some of those yesterday . |
| 28 | It was adopted for some of the dailies too . |
| 29 | Tormented , Eliot was searching for some sort of salvation . |
| 30 | While I was searching for some Arab property in the area , I had come across three young Palestinians standing beside a shabby food stall on the waterfront . |