Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] have [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Eliot considered this idea a good one , especially in view of the articles I had been writing for the New English Weekly ( for example , ‘ Italy must Choose ; and ‘ An Open Letter to Ansaldo ’ , which Mairet had forwarded to the spokesman in question and also to the Vatican ) , he felt that such a book issued in time of war , would need official backing . |
| 2 | Micropal measures volatility for all unit trusts which have been going for three years . |
| 3 | The main argument or basic responses you have been searching for are short statements which represent a stance or attitude to the question . |
| 4 | Even one would be good enough for there are riders who have been racing for years and have never gone well here . ’ |
| 5 | Nevertheless , the good news will bring some welcome relief to those homeowners who have been waiting for the best part of 1991 to sell their home . |
| 6 | For more than thirty years I have been fighting for them . |
| 7 | The Schuman Plan was based on ideas which had been circulating for some time but was devised in detail by Jean Monnet , who was in charge of France 's economic modernisation programme . |
| 8 | And she passed with flying colours She 's been driving for years apparently but she had to take a test . |
| 9 | The single parent building a home on supplementary benefit does n't have the tools acquired by workers who 've been earning for twenty or forty years . |
| 10 | By the end of the " thirties , Aunt Tossie wondered for how many years she had been paying for interesting yearlings , and with very uninteresting results . |
| 11 | But she 'd taken an instant liking to you and for years she 'd been agitating for me to settle down . ’ |
| 12 | In the 19 years she has been working for Durham County Council 's social services the number of rehabilitation officers for the visually impaired has dropped to one . |
| 13 | ‘ For many years we have been waiting for a mighty star to appear in the heavens and now it has . |
| 14 | For years he 's been looking for something to put his madness into . |
| 15 | Like Costner , David , 40 , has had to guard Whitney from hordes of obsessed fans in the four years he has been working for her . |
| 16 | When Ellcock announced his retirement from first-class cricket at the age of 216 after Middlesex 's pre-season tour to Portugal , he was finally admitting defeat in a struggle to overcome back problems he has been fighting for much of his 10-year career . |
| 17 | Some items I 'd been holding for him . |
| 18 | A lot of people started handing in pellet guns and antique muzzle-loaders they 've been keeping for years without a licence . |
| 19 | In the end , Clara , exasperated beyond endurance , brought up once more the possibility of cremation ( not daring to mention , even in her own mind , which had not quite forsaken filial tenderness , the possibility of the once-praised dust cart ) and Mrs Maugham , square , immutable , said quite astonishingly for her , and invoking sanctions she had been deriding for thirty years , that ashes must go to ashes and dust to dust . |
| 20 | POLICE in Craigavon are searching for two teenage girls who have been missing for five days . |
| 21 | It appears that , following her leaving Ontario , the lawyers who had been acting for her in Ontario were removed from the record . |
| 22 | He will himself present new data on the cohort of doctors he has been studying for the past 40 years , while his colleagues will review current knowledge on some of the many other topics that he has studied — including the effects on health of oral contraceptives , the parts played by radiation and by asbestos in various cancers , and patterns and trends in mortality . |
| 23 | Apart from anything else , his family came from Glasgow ( unlike twenty-five of the thirty-one Scottish lord lieutenants , Admiral Bryson had also been educated in Scotland ) , as several of the big Sussex landowners who had been hoping for the job quickly pointed out . |
| 24 | The annual Livewire competition is open to 16 to 25 year olds who have been trading for less then a year . |
| 25 | The foundation of a national Board of Education signalled the acceptance within the official culture of a need for policies that would co-ordinate an efficient and fully national system of education , and also allowed the voices of dons who had been calling for a transformation of the traditional curriculum to carry more weight than ever before . |
| 26 | They first told police they had been hunting for foxes . |
| 27 | It might have been a delayed reaction to the drugs I had been taking for an operation I 'd recently had on my foot , but this seemed unlikely . |
| 28 | Nurses who have been nursing for some time are likely to have reached the stage where much of what they do has become automatic , that is , carried out without conscious thought or awareness . |
| 29 | In neighbouring Punjab the Sikh militants who have been fighting for independence are a spent force , partly because , after a decade of violence , Punjabis want peace . |
| 30 | In the Philippines last year , an investigation team found two ‘ disappeared ’ women who had been missing for several months . |