Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others were queueing up for cracks at goal as well , notably Jon Newsome on at least two occasions , as well as Speed and Bats . |
| 2 | They would then find that they were hanging around for hours and the crafty ones would try to find a prop bed to catch up on some sleep . |
| 3 | They followed the Thames as it curved down past the Savoy Palace , Durham and York House , past the high-pooped ships scarred from long voyages which were crowding in for repairs . |
| 4 | Judy Little , human resources director of Longman and chairwoman of the Publishing Qualifications Board , announced that increasing numbers of publishers were signing on for NVQs . |
| 5 | The tables were filling up for afternoon tea . |
| 6 | Mr and Mrs Clare were waiting anxiously for Angel 's return . |
| 7 | They 'd all come straight to Ingham 's after the Requiem Mass and they were waiting now for John Burns , the undertaker , to come and tell them when the grave was ready at the cemetery and the men would walk the coffin there . |
| 8 | The goals were going in for Jan Aage in pre season friendlies … |
| 9 | People who were going in for fines and just daft shoplifting and that were getting their bairns taken away . |
| 10 | The official trade unions , thought to be linked to conservatives in the communist party , were holding out for 100% wage indexation . |
| 11 | We were slowing down for lunch and lack of fitness , and after traversing 200 feet of horizontal ridge and tricky gendarmes , we found a terrace in the sun below the final flawless tower and sucked on soggy oranges . |
| 12 | By mid-1991 several commoner MPs were calling openly for Prince Fatafehi Tu'ipelehake 's resignation and for his replacement by an elected Prime Minister . |
| 13 | The three year contracts that Lyall and McGiven signed in the summer of 1990 were coming up for expiry so the Town board have been working to keep their highly successful pair with the club to put a stop to speculation and rumours that were beginning to start . |
| 14 | Shops were coming up for sale all over the precinct . |
| 15 | The housemaid said to me that the daughter and son-in-law were coming down for Easter ( I 've often had a laugh over this ) ; and she said : |
| 16 | ‘ But when I came in they were clearly not ready and they were running around for tyres . |
| 17 | And you were jumping around for joy and saying |
| 18 | ‘ I did not get the impression they were reaching out for help , there was not a general mood of crisis . ’ |
| 19 | What happen was we was standing this jeweller 's , well really we 'd been there , she half the stuff for me and er other people and that , but erm , were standing there for ages , and she come , I 'm , I 'm sort of standing there like this up against the counter waiting to be served , suppose to be coming back right , stood right on the foot , it hurt , but I thought ok it 's a busy shop he wo n't so I 'd turned around , sort of he was there , so I sort of went to him like that and he was looked at me and fucking looked back , so I said are you gon na apologise then , getting right fucking pissed off cos I about three o'clock that day , hang over and being dragged up and down the town all fucking day ai n't my idea of fun you know , ri right in a bad mood anyway , and he said no in a real fucking why do n't you try and make me sort of attitude , so I 'm just about to fucking say something to me , like , how out the shop and everything , and she said what 's the fuck , what 's the matter with you then ? |
| 20 | It was as though he were making up for inadequacies of which he was aware but which he tried to pretend were not there . |
| 21 | Mr Harris , 51 , and his wife were setting out for church in Lisburn , Co Antrim . |
| 22 | He thought I was lashing about for excuses . |
| 23 | ‘ Quick , Sammy , what about the information he was writing down for Jim ? ’ |
| 24 | Leeson was looking around for inspiration , a topic that did n't rub salt into wounds . |
| 25 | The public knowledge that such discussion was taking place was damaging enough for Mrs Thatcher ; it was accentuated by signs that there was an active campaign to line up alternative candidates to stand against Heseltine in the second ballot . |
| 26 | Until today the Milton Keynes Kings ice hockey team , ranked 13th in the country , was heading literally for meltdown . |
| 27 | Andrew Sentance , economics director at the Confederation of British Industry , said the economy was balanced on a knife-edge but it was not possible to say whether it was heading irretrievably for recession . |
| 28 | Burton was heading back for base . |
| 29 | And it bounced and bounced and bounced and I thought it was going on for ages but it did n't . |
| 30 | And the piss was going on for ages . |