Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] [pron] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How can you tell what 's been eating into him for all that time ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Let's hope this is the last chapter for them — it has been hanging over them for more than a year — and they can now start to rebuild their lives . ’ |
| 3 | The bank has been experimenting with it for seven years , but , this year , 100 branches will come on stream . |
| 4 | I felt this was a chance for me to put to rest one way or another this thing that had been nagging at me for such a long time . ’ |
| 5 | Very few are so unmusical as to have no music at all within them , and all of us are surrounded by it for much of the time . |
| 6 | That has brought a great deal of success , because the French Government are now taking the tough measures that we have been pressing on them for 10 years . |
| 7 | We have been looking for her for three weeks . |
| 8 | We 've been looking for you for some months . |
| 9 | You have been looking for it for eight years . |
| 10 | Afterwards , the representative from the film company said , ‘ I 've been looking after him for two weeks and that 's the first time I 've seen his teeth … . ’ |
| 11 | Once Celie finds out her sister was still alive and had been writing to her for all this time but she had not received any letters because Albert had intercepted the letters , she stopped writing to God . |
| 12 | In October , Hopper married Michelle Phillips who had been living with him for some months . |
| 13 | Granny had been living with us for some time . |
| 14 | Well you see been hiring from me for ten years . |
| 15 | Now here 's something to argue about this weekend … what would you say is the hardest … or toughest race to win in sport … football 's league title … formula one … the olympic marathon … how about the jockeys championship … they 've been off and running for six months and leading the chase is Oxfordshire ’ s Richard Dunwoody … we 're riding with him for this week 's Friday Feature |
| 16 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
| 17 | " I 've been waiting for you for six hours . |
| 18 | Now you suspected she 'd been lying to you for thirteen years . |
| 19 | Any new food regime has to be simple to follow if you are to stick with it for any length of time . |
| 20 | Craig had been staying with her for some weeks now and she had grown used to seeing him there in her kitchen . |
| 21 | This system is still available today but no new work has been attempted on it for 18 months . |
| 22 | ’ If you have been attending to it for twenty four years , I came here into this church as a choir boy . ’ |
| 23 | The other point on that is that the draft matters for the E I P including matter two D have been known to everyone for some considerable time . |
| 24 | The D O E objection has been known to everyone for some considerable time and their statement is quite explicit in what it says in relation to the matter of one D. |
| 25 | ‘ The chief ‘ s been asking for you for some time , Mr Wycliffe . ’ |
| 26 | Almost every part of my infuriating body seemed to be nagging at me for some sort of attention . |
| 27 | Now at that time the Scottish National Party was the only other party in Scotland advocating what we were advocating ( though obviously going much further ) and it seemed to me crazy to be competing with them for devolutionary votes . |
| 28 | My theories with it , my er great cynical look at it is , they they need a hundred offenders and a hundred non offenders to be referred to them for these tests . |
| 29 | This means that the framework for any activity is itself communicative i.e. that there is something to be communicated to someone for some purpose . |
| 30 | Other jobs and dignities , including the leadership of the House , the chairmanship of the party , the conduct of Central African affairs , the oversight of European negotiations , the first Secretaryship of State , and even the Deputy Premiership , were to be added unto me for varying periods in the years that followed ; and each time Macmillan went abroad-notably during his Eastern tour in 1958 and his African trip in 1960-I was automatically invited to act as head of the government . |