Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] be [v-ing] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your mistress has been ringing for you this past fifteen minutes ! ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The apparel industry has been searching for something new for a long time and this is something which will be exciting . |
| 3 | If the employee has been working for you for up to eight weeks and does not have a linking letter or a Leaver 's statement , phone your Social Security office and ask if the start of the PIW you are dealing with links back to a claim to a Social Security benefit . |
| 4 | Marie had been waiting for him out in the car-park . |
| 5 | It was obvious to Michael and Geoffrey that the car had been waiting for them . |
| 6 | The car had been waiting for him . |
| 7 | She calmly told me that the police had called round and that Nassim had been looking for me . |
| 8 | ‘ Creed 's been looking for you . ’ |
| 9 | Actually , Becky 's been asking for you , Rourke . |
| 10 | The past four months have been exhausting for their mother Ann . |
| 11 | The business lobby has been squealing for everything from accelerated depreciation allowances to a Business Development Board to grant cheap loans . |
| 12 | Gravier 's wife and child and parents had been waiting for him at Acapulco . |
| 13 | He has lived in this pleasant suburb 45 years , entirely unaware that Kirk , Keef , Claptout and all of Led Zeppelin had been looking for him to apologise for stealing his songs and to pay him much-needed royalties . |
| 14 | The girl had been missing for what — a week ? — and off-hand he agreed with the local man 's judgement that she had been here for most of it . |
| 15 | During the final rehearsals for the 1962 Berlin recording of the Ninth , Karajan discovered that for years in the Finale 's ‘ adagio ma non troppo , ma divoto ’ the Berlin violas had been annexing for themselves the top line in a passage that is richly divided . |
| 16 | Roy had been working for him since three weeks after his wedding , and he hated it . |
| 17 | Her feeling was that Meryl had been waiting for someone … |
| 18 | Although the citadel had been rebuilt by the Emperor Gia Long in 1802 , its palaces and temples had been designed and constructed faithfully in the style favoured by China 's Ming emperors and at the entrance to the Dai Noi , the Imperial City itself , Tran Van Hieu had been waiting for him in the shadow of the Ngo Mon , the " Bull Gate " roofed in gold tiles like the Gate of Heavenly Peace in Peking . |
| 19 | Rab had been waiting for him . |
| 20 | The last years had been alarming for his chauffeur . |
| 21 | The last years had been alarming for his chauffeur . |
| 22 | Mrs Shirley Hayden , headteacher of Our Lady 's school in nearby Crowthorne , Berks , said : ‘ Oliver had been waiting for his mother to pick him up as usual at 3.15pm . |
| 23 | Your wife 's been asking for you — ’ |
| 24 | Pat herself has been very ill and people in QP have been praying for her . |
| 25 | Living Dead and Terminator slippers — people had been queuing for them for God 's sake — were being returned unused to the shops and credit notes cashed in for balls of wool and packets of scraperboard . |
| 26 | About half of the patients had been waiting for their notes for less than six weeks , but 19 had been waiting for over six months , 14 for over a year , and six for over two years . |
| 27 | His lordship 's been calling for you . ’ |
| 28 | Certainly Terry , Brian and I knew that close friends had been campaigning for us and that that experience could have changed them , just as we 'd been changed by what we had gone through . |
| 29 | The thieves took £80 that 73-year-old Peggy Metcalfe had been saving for her electricity bill . |
| 30 | They were barely inside the front door when the elderly housekeeper appeared and told Cinzia that Signorina Cook had been looking for her . |