Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the past year German authorities withdrew approval for certain components which Cameron and some other hot-air balloon manufacturers have been using worldwide for the past 20 years . |
| 2 | I 'm 32 and have been climbing seriously for the last 18 years , which helped me get accepted . |
| 3 | I have started divorce proceedings , as we have been living apart for the last two months , but now he is pleading with me to take him back . |
| 4 | I have started divorce proceedings , as we have been living apart for the last two months , but now he is pleading with me to take him back . |
| 5 | Hell 's teeth , baby — we 've been living together for the last two years or more . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Now we 're going home for the first proper Christmas Laura has ever had , ’ said Fran . |
| 7 | Mark ‘ Zippy ’ Pretty has finally got over his mid-life crisis by red-pointing Mecca at Raven Tor , and has been celebrating continuously for the last six weeks . |
| 8 | Today a majority of those travelling south over the Gotthard are heading either for the popular lakeside resorts of the Ticino , or beyond that into Italy . |
| 9 | Plans are going ahead for the proposed course — arrival on the Friday 16th May — start 17th May and end 23rd May — departure Saturday 24th May . |
| 10 | The ovoid seemed to project a kind of deadly aura and , as Rostov compared the black egg shape with his memory of the framework structures which he had encountered previously , he wondered if the designers had been striving consciously for the visual effect which they had achieved . |
| 11 | I 've been doing well for the last week , but I took this heavy cold , well from Thursday , since I 've took this heavy cold I 've hardly smoked . |
| 12 | Most developed countries are doing so already — and in fact have been doing so for the past sixty years . |
| 13 | This was partly because Picasso , like Braque , was at this time working largely from memory ; indeed he had been doing so for the past three years . |
| 14 | About three years ago I was running a workshop for students training to be secondary teachers at the Institute of Education in London , something I and colleagues have been doing annually for the last ten years or so . |
| 15 | At premium prices , the independent papers are opting firmly for the high ground . |
| 16 | ‘ They have been coming here for the past six years . ’ |
| 17 | At the Invalidenstrasse crossing , an older man wept as he explained : ‘ I 'm going across for the first time since August 12 , 1961 . |
| 18 | She 'd explained that he 'd be staying away for the two nights , which he 'd never done before ; she only hoped she 'd explained it well enough . |
| 19 | There are many who have already started to vote , or will be doing so for the first time soon , with no first-hand experience of what Labour governments were like . |
| 20 | His father had been ‘ under the weather , since July , and Lewis was half-aware that he might be coming home for the last time . |
| 21 | Many entrants to nursing will be leaving home for the first time or changing their location . |
| 22 | I believe in a competitive world , but at the same time I think we have got to be laying sound foundations for future growth and if we are constantly pressured into satisfying stock-market expectations , which are short-term , or under threat of take-over , we will not be investing enough for the long-term development of our businesses . |
| 23 | But what makes HP 's claims more convincing than most is the support from traditional IBM mainframe software suppliers , something HP is said to have been putting together for the last 18 months . |
| 24 | Checking his watch he saw it was time to swim back to the canoe and his rendezvous with Roger Courtney , who had been paddling offshore for the last few hours , keeping the canoe head or stern towards the beach so that it was less likely to be seen . |
| 25 | In times past , I had tried to get across to the continent as much as possible , but now , while other people were going abroad for the first time because of all the cheap travel around , I was ( without intending to be anti-social ) doing exactly the opposite and taking a look around the British Isles . |
| 26 | The bells of an Oxford church are ringing again for the first time in three years . |
| 27 | We are investing heavily for the future growth of the company , and this year we look forward to the opening of the tenth Savacentre — our first new hypermarket since our Sheffield store opened in 1990 . |
| 28 | Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel have been touring seriously for the last three years , having played to over a million people in a stint of two hundred and eighty-five concerts . |
| 29 | The fact that Freeman is writing primarily for the social work profession is apparent , for instance , in the extent to which the legal regulation of substitute care is dealt with in depth . |
| 30 | I do hope you and Per and the girls are well , and that work is going satisfactorily for the two of you and studies likewise for them . |