Example sentences of "[pron] i [verb] [be] [verb] for " in BNC.
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1 | Lucille Walker had n't brought me clear over to Hollywood just to tell me I 'd been played for a sucker . |
2 | The trouble is my boyfriend , with whom I have been living for six months , thinks I should use the money to pay off our overdraft . |
3 | I even told them I had been recommended for a commission . |
4 | ‘ This is someone I 've been longing for you to meet . |
5 | For one thing Harlow is the sort of town which I 'd been agitating for both before and after the war whenever I was speaking on behalf of the Labour Party both at street corners and at public meetings on the type of life we vis envisaged for a normal person in the land . |
6 | Michael Herr says , ‘ I had an absolute raving love affair with the war , but my other love affair was with America , not with Indo-China ; it was with American energy , which I 've been criticised for , but that 's how it happened ’ . |
7 | When I was eighteen I came in contact with the Catholic Crusade which was a rather left wing Christian Socialist Organization and I found that their attitude to problems contained the answers for which I had been searching for a good many years tell me when you want me to raise something . |
8 | Thus flighted , I sent them shooting out over the mud and the water towards their suffocating ends ; then I buried them , using as coffins the big matchboxes we always kept by the stove , and which I had been saving for years and using as toy-soldier containers , model houses and so on . |
9 | I took a drink from one of the twenty-four plastic gallon containers which I had been collecting for two years . |
10 | Intending to be a priest of the Church of England , I lost my faith , slowly but painfully , and at the end of the summer left Oxford and the house in Norham Gardens in which I had been living for two years and in which , by a curious turn of fortune , my office now is . |
11 | The canyon ran parallel to the continuation of the wadi which I had been following for days . |
12 | My flight path ended on a small ledge , my hands still grasping Olympus camera which I had been cradling for all my worth , regardless of the blows striking my body from every angle . |
13 | I live in Scarborough , and some time ago enquired about leisure art classes ; this led to me taking an interview for a full-time art and design course , which I have been accepted for . |
14 | The development is being promoted by the City of Edinburgh District Council , although it has not yet progressed to the submission of a planning application on which I have been asked for comments by the District Councils Director of Planning . |
15 | For instance having retired to this lovely English village , and assembled my wits and memories to compile this narrative , I have had the satisfaction recently of discovering the original meaning of three common expressions which I have been using for years . |
16 | Speaking immediately after his election , John Young said : ‘ I am honoured and delighted to be elected Deputy Vice President and I see it as an opportunity to contribute to some of the serious issues facing the profession , and to represent a body with which I have been involved for much of my life . |
17 | Brightest spot : the final , disgraceful death of the opinion poll industry , which I have been campaigning for since 1983 . |
18 | And I kept staring at you and thinking , My God , she 's everything I 've been looking for . |
19 | Look , ’ and she opened her handbag and reached inside , ‘ this was one I 'd been saving for him — ’ Her voice cracked and she began to cry . |
20 | That 's the one I 've been looking for ! |
21 | ‘ You must be the one , ’ said the young woman , ‘ You must be the one I have been waiting for , who must release me from enchantment . |
22 | During that week I felt the Lord speak to me and I knew that this is what I 'd been looking for all my life and I decided to follow Jesus . |
23 | Demelza , five , of Oakworth , West Yorks , said : ‘ She 's just what I 've been looking for . |
24 | I would think that 30 to 40 per cent of my time is spent on what I 've been trained for . |
25 | ‘ What I 've been using for about the last five years are Seymour Duncan amps . |
26 | It 's just what I 've been hoping for ! |
27 | It beats changing nappies , which is what I 've been doing for the last 5 months . |
28 | that 's what I 've been waiting for that ten , ten do it again |
29 | I did not tell him that his imitation of the French was far more like what I had been seeing for the past year . |
30 | Joe invited us out to lunch , which was what I had been hoping for , because we were both more or less on our uppers . |