Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [verb] be [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the exception of ‘ Incident on 42nd Street ’ ( 1988 ) , the diptych owned by Metropolitan Museum and omitted for budgetary reasons , the exhibition features all of the themes which the artist has explored and culminates with a selection of canvases of Coney Island , where Jacklin has been working for the last eighteen months . |
| 2 | But he had barely been gone for an hour when there came the signal that Thorfinn had been waiting for . |
| 3 | Her feeling was that Meryl had been waiting for someone … |
| 4 | It was widely known , however , that China had been pressing for a Japanese imperial visit for some time as a means of marking a further stage in the country 's rehabilitation from the diplomatic isolation which had followed the Tiananmen Square massacre . |
| 5 | If Ebert had been paying for Axel 's debauchery , the chances were that he was behind the death of the girl . |
| 6 | Charlotte and Alexander have been waiting for years . |
| 7 | Dr Gilbert has pointed out that when the evangelist Hannah More remarked in 1789 on the existence of whole village populations no less estranged from the services of the Church than were heathens , she was belatedly recognising something which Wesley and Whitefield had been proclaiming for decades . |
| 8 | Donald and Elinor had been talking for thirty minutes . |
| 9 | And then , after he and Owen had been talking for some while , he crooked his finger and called over the boy who had seen |
| 10 | If Philip had been looking for a pale , sickly , ragged and possibly fettered prisoner , Harry would be a considerable shock to him . |
| 11 | Jo and Ryan had been dating for six months and had progressed some way beyond parking now . |
| 12 | Retirement is one of the few moments which a politician can choose with deliberation and Baldwin had been preparing for it for months , if not for years . |
| 13 | ‘ It seems as if John had been waiting for them to leave . |
| 14 | ‘ People see Romania and Albania in the media all the time now but Poland has been suffering for a long time and people are still very much in need of our help , ’ she said . |
| 15 | She wondered whether Amy had been looking for the Julians or for her when she drove down the drive ? |
| 16 | Lukic looked a lot better by the end of the night , plucking out a few high balls as happily as Seaman had been doing for Arse all night . |