Example sentences of "that was [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the one occasion when they did , in the run-up to the 1935 Election , it was — as we shall see — the peace movement that was agitating for a policy of resistance to aggression , and the Government that was forced by public opinion to suspend its deeply unpopular policy of appeasement — until the Election was safely out of the way . |
| 2 | Well everybody that was working for him had always worked in the quarries all their life , and they er they just been working for the slater company before the quarry shut down . |
| 3 | But he did come upon the little house that was waiting for him , in a clearing in the depths , and was cheered by the lines of yellow light he could see between and under the shutters . |
| 4 | The hill that was waiting for me across the next two miles of nothingness was typical of those I had climbed that day — no more than a hundred feet high , with a gradual slope . |
| 5 | Cowley never looked anything less than dapper , in his long black greatcoat , bowler hat on head , umbrella carried over left arm , despite the chauffeured car that was waiting for him not more than a hundred yards away . |
| 6 | There was a car waiting , but because of the fog they abandoned the idea of driving down and went to the railway station , caught a train with minutes to spare , picked up the car that was waiting for them the other end , rang the studio from the car phone to let them know where they were , and ran into London Weekend Television . |
| 7 | When he returned to England from Calcutta , which he did as soon as he was well enough to travel , he did not take up the glorious and interesting life that was waiting for him there , as one would have expected . |
| 8 | She put down the receiver , feeling much happier , and even enjoyed the lukewarm haddock that was waiting for her in the kitchen . |
| 9 | Martin Holden , of Viner Carew , explains : ‘ There is a surplus of residential building land outside main centres , particularly in parts of Cornwall , where land values have fallen by 75 per cent to less than £100,000 an acre — even in Plymouth , where land that was selling for £600,000 an acre is now fetching £200,000 . |