Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [det] [noun sg] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've been seeing each other for two years now and , although we have n't set a date , we are planning to get married . ’ |
| 2 | My boyfriend and I are both 24 and have been seeing each other for three years . |
| 3 | Finally , check with your airline , airport or travel agent regarding check-in times — some airlines are allowing more time for extra security searches |
| 4 | Siward said , ‘ I 'd be a fool if I did , seeing that you and Alfgar have been cultivating each other for thirty years . |
| 5 | She had been imagining this meeting for some time . |
| 6 | Earl Grey was so English , so sedate , and maybe Ilsa had been living that way for fifty years . |
| 7 | I mean , I 've been living this guy for three weeks now and Vic starts telling me how to speak ? |
| 8 | The Tern Valley business park , Chairman , the er , the management board met to have a look at the site , we 're getting some demand for some smaller plots have turned down , and there is the proposal that was considered by the , the management but was turned down , to put in a little round , er , so we could rate some of the plots at the bottom of the site in , to er , mark out the plots rather than pull any plots erm , if the construction of them would be funded from , from selling plots in that area . |
| 9 | How would you feel if you 'd been paying this money for ten years and then you lived , you lived after than , and you got nothing for it basically . |
| 10 | It was as though she had secretly been waiting all evening for this moment , for this invitation to walk along the beach with him . |
| 11 | At last she could admit honestly to herself that some part of her had been waiting all evening for this moment when her own self-imposed barriers would be swept away . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd been growing that beard for 10 years and had grown quite accustomed to it , ’ says the now clean shaven Chris . |
| 13 | I had been expecting this news for some time but it still came as a terrible shock . |
| 14 | ‘ Some of the stuff is very '70s sounding , but then again , as we 've been doing this thing for such a long time , I guess it 's kinda cool that all that is back in vogue . |
| 15 | With the growing concern with debt problems , and the difficulties of dealing with new forms of over-borrowing and multiple debt , the credit industry appears to be accepting more responsibility for encouraging and funding money advice services . |
| 16 | It moves me playing it and it upsets me playing it , it 's very upsetting to play Alfie , because A he 's such a disastrous man as a person d you know you think oh god I do n't really wan na be playing this man for sixteen weeks but the part is so wonderful and the play is so rich that you ca n't help s sort of s submitting to it and putting yourself in the position of being a masochist I suppose . |
| 17 | I hope to visit relevant training programmes in the Philippines and Southern Africa , where possible participating as a trainee , in order to learn from the experience of those who have been undertaking this work for some years ; and to identify elements in the training processes which may be transferrable or adaptable to a UK situation . |
| 18 | ‘ They 've been showing this stuff for two years ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ They 've been showing this stuff for two years ’ . |
| 20 | Correspondents in the Gulf are preparing such material for future issues . |
| 21 | Analysts said Mr Muawad faced the task of uniting militia leaders who have been fighting each other for 14 years . |
| 22 | I 've been fighting this battle for four years and we 've eventually got there . |
| 23 | ‘ The police were searching this flat for certain sorts of evidence . ’ |
| 24 | There were signs that consumers were borrowing more money for big projects . |
| 25 | The team , five of them , had been watching this farmhouse for two months . |
| 26 | They know that the European Commission is blocking that money for sound reasons . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , she 's raising more cash for another laser unit and research to help other children like Jenny . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been working this way for 18 months now and I 'm really happy with how it 's going . |
| 29 | In the 1940s an interest in genetic studies came to the fore , although several German investigators had already been following this line for some years . |
| 30 | They are planning another land-occupation for next weekend , about two kilometres from here . |