Example sentences of "[conj] they have [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea of them having to bring fortnightly evidence that they have been looking for work when in the majority of cases they are not even permitted onto premises to ask for a job suggests an obvious indifference on the part of the policy makers . |
| 2 | ‘ I do not wish to be hard upon poor people in great affliction ; but I can not help thinking that they have been doing for hundreds of years past something very like what the Bible calls ‘ tempting God' ’ — staking their property and their lives upon the chances or no earthquakes coming , while they ought to have known that an earthquake might come an day . ’ |
| 3 | It will be a most welcome first for Derry should they win the Sam Maguire Cup and they have been preparing for their big day with rigorous training sessions under the watchful eye of manager Eamon Coleman who this weekend will outline his strategy in secret conclave with his players . |
| 4 | if they have been sniffing for so e time , arrange a health check |
| 5 | When we have breakfast , on the 8th floor , we can look down on the river , and watch all the river traffic , including large passenger vessels , big merchant ships belching smoke , strings of wooden barges , and big and small old-fashioned junks , which look as if they have been sailing for a 100 years at least . |
| 6 | Selfing populations of plants could be valuable material , although the retention of unused yet presumably expensive floral features in some populations raised doubts as to whether they have been selfing for long enough to reach evolutionary equilibrium . |