Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] be [v-ing] for an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally the use of ebony seemed a good choice ; I 'd been looking for an excuse to make something in ebony for ages , anyway ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | That is erm whenever people look for an analysis of something , here I 've been looking for an analysis of individuation , there 's a tendency to consider candidate analyses one by one , singulatum . |
| 4 | She has been walking for an hour a day for more than a year , but very slowly . |
| 5 | She had been meaning for an age to get a dimmer fitted . |
| 6 | If we 'd been looking for an easy acquaintance with nature , we would have chosen a different landscape : something lusher and more intricate , not this bleak and famished hillside on the Atlantic 's edge . |
| 7 | The young man admitted in due course , when we had been driving for an hour , that he did not know the way and was totally lost . |
| 8 | Nobody left the queue : they were n't going to lose their place , they 'd been queueing for an hour . |
| 9 | They 've been calling for an alternative route to the A 421 since World War Two . |
| 10 | From the statement " It has been raining for an hour in Chicago " , for example , we are able to infer , using our knowledge of the real world , that the streets of Chicago are wet . |
| 11 | He was inclined to believe he had been looking for an excuse to ring her , which was foolish because he did not need an excuse . |
| 12 | As soon as her breasts were free of their thin cotton restraint , he licked the soft , warm flesh , as if the taste of her was something he had been craving for an eternity . |
| 13 | No wonder he 's been looking for an excuse to get rid of you . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I bet he 's been dying for an audience , ’ Dalziel said to Pascoe . |