Example sentences of "[adj] have [be] [v-ing] for [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They 'll let you do a activity , this has been going for years but they wo n't let you .
2 County clubs , meanwhile , can help by welcoming former players , be they great or small , and in particular by forming old player associations , as Somerset has done in the last few seasons , as some have been doing for decades .
3 Sixty-seven parties fought the election of 1991 ; 29 won seats in parliament ; a dozen have been jockeying for seats in coalition governments .
4 ‘ 63 teams from all over the UK took part , and it was clear that many had been training for months .
5 When Luxembourg finally admitted what many had been saying for years , that it wants a federal EC , British federalists tried to pretend that the Luxembourgers do not mean federal when they say ‘ federal ’ .
6 Many have been living for years in a shadowy , illegal world , doing the jobs that affluent Japanese now shun .
7 An army of 2000 have been reporting for duty … tables to set … glasses to clean … crates of bottles to wheel in …
8 The Guildford Four have been canvassing for Jeremy Corbyn in Islington .
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