Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | My ‘ heavenly brother ’ was not a Sasse boy , but from the primary school in nearby Mutengene mission where I had been staying for a few days . |
| 2 | In late August I was finishing my day at the heart clinic , where I had been working for several months , when I decided that it was time to go . |
| 3 | No he said , I ca n't give it back to you , you 're the person that I 've been looking for all my life . |
| 4 | She said : ‘ All that has held us together for years is that I 've been working for you . |
| 5 | Well I knew it was but it the fact that it had a nice easy switch in the base was something that I 'd been looking for . |
| 6 | When I replied that I had been fighting for the extra 200,000 I had managed to achieve , I was remonstrated with for having put the business at risk . |
| 7 | It is effectively in planning terms a change of use from whatever to industry or business that I find is providing for . |
| 8 | I can say without embarrassment that I have been training for this for a long time , that I have learned to breathe the rarefied air , that I now know when to stand still and when to move forward , when to attack and when to retreat , when to leave a problem to resolve itself and when to go on working at it till the solution emerges . |
| 9 | Well , I agreed not to speak more than half an hour , but I see that I have been speaking for a little longer than forty-five minutes . |
| 10 | ‘ So I 've been grieving for him . ’ |
| 11 | I mean the doctor was no help and I 'd been waiting for over a coupla months to get into the Clinic for a detox . |
| 12 | And I 've been living for seven years ! |
| 13 | and I 've been trying for ages but there just has n't been any cos |
| 14 | I mean , dammit all , Charles has been working for 40 years and I 've been working for 22 ’ ) . |
| 15 | And she has a hundred and forty and he 's gotten of cans for the his mum and Stewart 's been getting some cans for the shop for his granddad and I 've been asking for permission to go into the dump and get some for there . |
| 16 | So it 's really settling in and I 've been waiting for that to happen . ’ |
| 17 | And I had been loading for the Major the last time that I was out shooting , the last time for me like . |
| 18 | Duncan and I had been talking for about ten minutes or more and swatting the increasing number of mosquitoes that always arrived in force at this time of the evening . |
| 19 | Newley and I have been bidding for the same things for years . ’ |
| 20 | If I had been looking for a lover — I admit my husband 's fortunes were not at their brightest , and my friendship with the Philosopher was a little turbulent at that time — then I should not have chosen Gustave . |
| 21 | I can do it , but I 've been driving for two and a half years |
| 22 | But now I 've been drug-free for over a year erm but I 'd been trying for a few year before that and had nay managed to succeed . |
| 23 | you know , he 's that sort of bloke , he 's a very nice bloke and he 's got a heart of gold and he 's saved us no end of the money ai n't he , since I 've been working for him ? |
| 24 | Now , after I had been walking for only seventeen days , I had almost forgotten those words . |
| 25 | ‘ I did n't even know of them until later on in my teens , after I 'd been recording for several years . |
| 26 | I got this job in the machine sh in one of the lock shops and er for a fellow , I worked for him and er after I 'd been working for him they wanted me to work for somebody else but this fellow would n't let me go . |
| 27 | But it was n't like I 'd imagined — except for the long silences when I 'd been hoping for laughs . |
| 28 | It was in that frame of mind that I moved into the Olympic year indoor season , saying , as I had been doing for a long time , ‘ In ‘ 88 , I 'll graduate ! ’ |
| 29 | Perhaps my hon. Friend does not know that the Government have just announced that they intend to nationalise the private enterprise operation that I am running , which entails my sending those replies to all Opposition Members — as I have been doing for the past three months — and , this month , to Conservative Members , following an offer made to their Whips some time ago . |