Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [be] [v-ing] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could drink now be driving for hours . |
| 2 | I ca n't breathe properly-I 'm gasping for air ! ’ |
| 3 | The implication of moral blackmail in robbing patient services to pay nurses remained a ghost at the banquet for the media , and for many nurses , who had still to reconcile the jobs they had perhaps been doing for years with the management 's idea of their responsibilities , and the clinical grade to which they aspired . |
| 4 | The snow had obviously been falling for hours , probably while she was still watching The Blue Angel . |
| 5 | The NUWW and the LNA had long been campaigning for legislation to raise the age of consent to eighteen and to enforce more stringent penalties against procurers and brothel-keepers . |
| 6 | And yet the end of the Second World War was such a celebration of the defeat of the fascist enemy that there was a failure to grasp the fact that the universal Enemy had merely been rehearsing for Armageddon . |
| 7 | To some degree they had already been catering for children with special needs . |
| 8 | The station was overflowing with badly wounded who had already been waiting for treatment for several days . |
| 9 | He had also been talking for ages to Broadman , and Ymor had seen a piece of paper change hands . |
| 10 | Yes , we had both been searching for years for a place like this , well away from urban life with some land and outbuildings . |
| 11 | Perhaps , thought Robert , he had simply been playing for time and had now come up with a credible answer . |
| 12 | They had undoubtedly been asking for trouble . |
| 13 | He brought with him his own group of masons , and a letter of introduction from Humphrey Lovell , the queen 's master mason , according to which he had previously been working for Sir Francis Knollys [ q.v. ] , probably at Caversham House , near Reading . |
| 14 | The shape and musculature of a dolphin do not alone account for its speed and swimming efficiency , and biologists have long been searching for features of the skin which may explain the mysteries of the dolphin 's swimming prowess . |
| 15 | Economists have long been calling for safety regulations to be subject to cost-benefit analysis . |
| 16 | Other sectors , such as oil refining and petrochemicals , have been pretty depressed so contractors used to serving those industries have all been looking for business in the same markets as ourselves . |
| 17 | ‘ He 's only been working for Harry for a few weeks . |
| 18 | Two district councils , Angus and Cumnock & Doon Valley , have already been pressing for changes and the committee was told that many other authorities were experiencing disadvantages because of the rule . |
| 19 | The calculation of unemployment statistics is somewhat different in Australia , the United States , Canada and Japan where sample surveys are taken to estimate the total number of people who are without jobs but have actually been searching for work during the sample period . |