Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv prt] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In LONDON dealers were gearing up for a rush of prospective buyers . |
| 2 | The events that followed have been chronicled by several of those that took part , My fate was similar : we were to listen out for a coded signal from Group at Lyon if we were to proceed to the target . |
| 3 | ‘ When we were looking around for a royal to open the centre , we were promised as soon as someone was available for a royal visit , we would get one , ’ said Peter Carberry , chairman of Darlington Mind . |
| 4 | Two friends from the paras — one an ex-member of the Irish Rangers , the other a deserter from the French Foreign Legion — were saving up for a trip to South Africa where they intended to join the South African Army . |
| 5 | Yeah , I thought you were saving up for a new game for your Sega system ? |
| 6 | They were going out for a west end meal in the evening . |
| 7 | Three thousand tabs of Ecstasy were handed over for a thick wad of notes . |
| 8 | ‘ People were very friendly and we were invited in for a number of cups of tea during our stay , ’ PC Mardon said . |
| 9 | She and Hattie said they were coming around for a cup of tea . |
| 10 | Out of the 25 patients discharged from the hospital 21 treated by endoscopy and two treated with surgery were followed up for a mean of 28.3 and 22.5 months , respectively . |
| 11 | Eight patients of group 1 and seven patients of group 2 were followed up for a period of >3 years ( mean follow up 47 ( range 37–60 ) months for both groups ) . |
| 12 | In the same year Forbes described 22 patients with contraindications for surgery in which an endoprosthesis was placed , of these four ( 18% ) developed cholangitis , three had a repeat endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography with clearance of the ducts , and two died of unrelated causes , the remaining patients were followed up for a mean of 14 months with no complications ( 17 ) . |
| 13 | The other 43 patients underwent long term endoprosthesis placement and were followed up for a mean of 15.9 months ; six ( 15% ) developed cholangitis requiring surgery or endoscopic clearance of the ducts , there were no biliary related deaths . |
| 14 | Ten patients died of unrelated causes and the remaining 10 were followed up for a mean of 26 months with no biliary symptoms . |
| 15 | All patients were followed up for a minimum of two years through the inflammatory bowel diseases clinic . |
| 16 | The problem arose again thirty years later , when their energies were channelled off on a crusade which ended in defeat at Nicopolis in 1396 , and yet again in 1444–5 when , after the truce of Tours , the ‘ Ecorcheurs ’ who were , as their name implied , ‘ skinning ’ France , were led off for a while to Switzerland and the imperial lands . |
| 17 | So while he and Stapleton were led out for a little exercise , the Blue Cross carpenter , Alan Key got to work . |
| 18 | Ten thousand people were taken up for a guinea a ride of a few moments . |
| 19 | We were taken off for a shower — which was welcome as I had n't washed properly since the night before I left London- and then shown our beds in the barrack rooms on the second and third floors . |
| 20 | The 20mm and 40mm quick-firing guns here were in or on concrete emplacements , and although the crew of the outer guns were knocked out for a time the Germans got this battery firing again , and the searchlight on the Mole 's tip was never put out . |
| 21 | The news when Rain reached the office was that Tavett was again being questioned by the police ; there were insistent rumours of a row between Maureen and Barron ; the freedom of speech people were muttering obscenities because their latest attempt at a cartoon had been rejected ; and the Patriotic Ten were casting around for a fresh mind to help them get their statement into publishable form . |
| 22 | Ho and Pottz were sent out for a sudden-death surf-off . |
| 23 | And one of the reporters came out and er he asked me he 's heard that our decision was to go out for a strike you see . |
| 24 | Secretly ( because the papers would never report it ) , behind the scenes a huge demand was building up for a ‘ decent ’ paper , one which — dare they say it — would Tell the Truth . |
| 25 | ‘ All I did was come out for a walk before going to bed , and I was about by that place where the bank 's caved in , when somebody jumped me from behind . |
| 26 | But the full force of the poison was staved off for a while . |
| 27 | Observation was carried out for a total of nine weeks in the offices of four solicitors . |
| 28 | The research was carried out for a doctoral dissertation on the princely sum of £410 per annum ( this was the ‘ married woman 's ’ rate of postgraduate grant at the time , £120 lower than the full grant ) . |
| 29 | United were wobbling ; Hoddle was winding up for a big finish . |
| 30 | ONE WAR WAS WINDing down for a while , not ending , because they never end . |