Example sentences of "[was/were] really [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we were really looking for a home for the turbine ( which needed a thirty-foot head of water ) , as well as for ourselves . |
| 2 | I remember her pointing it out to me saying what was in it when we were really looking for something else . ’ |
| 3 | because er , when they say how old are you and you say forty nine , they say oh well we , we , we were really looking for somebody a bit younger |
| 4 | McKellar 's subjects " … quite frequently likened the images to lantern slides … " and furthermore their unrelatedness both to current preoccupations and to each other made them seem like a series of lecturer 's slides which had not only " … been mixed up but were really intended for some other lecture " . |
| 5 | So off they went and the decks were really cleared for action . |
| 6 | well I think that , that the , the sending out of the press release immediately was , was quite correct , because obviously people had ride that , sorry people may have read that and something therefore had to be said , my personal view was that really this article is you had , if you like had undone everything that we had been trying to do , erm and put us in a bad light and it maybe my Scottish background , but I do n't like people calling in to question my motives and the companies motives , erm and I felt that it went straight to what we were really standing for , given what I explained about my thoughts in nineteen eighty seven , it was hitting straight to the core of the whole proposition and everything that stood for , erm and that is what was the great concern and because it was n't just like a , a mild slap in the face it was more like a knife in the ribs , it was therefore required a lot more thinking about as to the reaction that we would then have to come up with . |
| 7 | We had not the experts in Burmese poetry who were really needed for this task , only a handful of hymns in the true Burmese style were available , and these had been composed earlier by Father Jackson . |
| 8 | ‘ The other song was really slammin' for the dancefloor but it 's a love song and it just did n't seem right . |
| 9 | The fascination of this book is in its clear-sighted debunking of the myths which many have fondly mistaken for historical truth : that Columbus was really aiming for Asia , that he and his sailors thought the world was flat , that Queen Isabella pawned her jewels to finance his trips and came down with her husband to wave him off from the docks , or even ( a fondly-cherished delusion ) that these were journeys of discovery rather than intentional acquisition and expansion of the Spanish empire . |
| 10 | None of the bargeowners could afford to waste electricity , and the display was really intended for much later at night , but he had turned it on early to surprise and please them . |
| 11 | ‘ Some , ’ Grant replied round the glass tube in his mouth , just in case the question was really intended for him . |
| 12 | In order not to disappoint anyone , Celia would explain in her reply that although she was pregnant , she was really looking for an older nanny . |
| 13 | Rex refused to cooperate when he realized that what Minter was really looking for was a scandal — any scandal . |
| 14 | But the plain truth is that we can not say what was really done for the children or what the results were . |
| 15 | One collector even suggested to Mr Laurentius that no one was really waiting for these new techniques and that it would be better for everyone if he stopped . |
| 16 | I 'm all dirty , I was really waiting for daddy to come back up . |
| 17 | In his dialogue with Lewis that September night , Tolkien was really arguing for a less human and more ‘ even ’ approach to the Gospel story . |
| 18 | Could he honestly believe that when I went off to work at nine o'clock each morning I was really heading for some regular-as-clockwork day-long love-nest ? |
| 19 | He figured that the women in those shops were too innocent to know what it was really used for . |
| 20 | This seemed to be the last straw — somebody was really gunning for me : slowing the whole bloody earth down now . |
| 21 | And er my chum 's mother , she was a forewoman French polisher and he asked her to come and er work along with him you know , but it was I mean that was during the depression years , that was in the the twenties right through to the you know the The first bright spot was when the Queen Mary got started it gave people And then of course , just after that , things was beginning to pick up , but it was really preparing for war . |
| 22 | I could also assess whether this new formula or exercise was really working for them . |
| 23 | ‘ I need to know , Malamute , ’ she said frostily , and Tammuz knew what she was really asking for was his permission to intrude upon his therapy programme . |
| 24 | ( I was really asking for you ) . |