Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | We have been looking for her for three weeks . |
| 7 | We 've been looking for you for some months . |
| 8 | You have been looking for it for eight years . |
| 9 | 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 … . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In October , Hopper married Michelle Phillips who had been living with him for some months . |
| 12 | Granny had been living with us for some time . |
| 13 | Well you see been hiring from me for ten years . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
| 16 | " I 've been waiting for you for six hours . |
| 17 | Now you suspected she 'd been lying to you for thirteen years . |
| 18 | Craig had been staying with her for some weeks now and she had grown used to seeing him there in her kitchen . |
| 19 | ’ If you have been attending to it for twenty four years , I came here into this church as a choir boy . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ The chief ‘ s been asking for you for some time , Mr Wycliffe . ’ |
| 21 | Almost every part of my infuriating body seemed to be nagging at me for some sort of attention . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | And what the force will say to us is that the force has overall priorities and they take precedent and that is to get sixty four P Cs back on the street , and our problems they will be looking to us for imaginative solutions |
| 24 | Then I 'd be looking after you for both products and what I want to do is have a look at all the standard bearings you take to see if there is potential for a supply . |
| 25 | She had not seen her nearest ‘ big house ’ neighbour , though she had been hearing about him for some time . |
| 26 | Mr Giles of Grimethorpe Motors has been advertising with us for two years and he is delighted with the results . |
| 27 | But we 've been talking about it for three four months . |
| 28 | George made a long thinking , grumbling noise , then said , mostly to himself : ‘ The paperwork must have been good … if they were living on it for eighteen months … they were n't escaped prisoners of war trying to reach Switzerland on a hand-copied Fremdenpass … |
| 29 | Well obviously the sad reality of the thing does n't come home to , to our countrymen and a man comes up last week and tells me that he 's been paid off by the Daily Record he 's been working for them for thirty five years and he asked what how much pension will he have and says that he 's getting four years pension . |
| 30 | And they quote epistles of St. Paul so difficult that the theologians , who have been working on them for two thousand years , have not got to the bottom of them . |