Example sentences of "[vb base] be [verb] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Imagine being crammed for two hours in a sweltering tent under 250 kilowatts of stage lighting , along with 200 other photographers ; your eardrums assaulted by the machine-gun fire of motor-drives and curses in assorted languages , your nostrils assailed by a breath-catching blend of garlic , stale cigarettes and old shirts . |
| 2 | Michael had originally intended to run Royal Ballerina in the Prix Vermeille at Longchamp the day after the St Leger and now Kauntze is hoping for dry conditions at Doncaster for what he regards as an easier race . |
| 3 | Michael had originally intended to run Royal Ballerina in the Prix Vermeille at Longchamp the day after the St Leger and now Kauntze is hoping for dry conditions at Doncaster for what he regards as an easier race . |
| 4 | But we do n't as a regular thing do much as far as the public is concerned but what we do do is training for tropical foresters , and during the summer vac . |
| 5 | ‘ But I am a bit disappointed that while we 've been appealing for new directors nobody from the town has come forward . ’ |
| 6 | They 'd be secondhand shoes because they 've been worn for three days . |
| 7 | Register Office , handful of guests , parents optional , drink-up at couple 's house ( in which they 've been living for several years already ) . |
| 8 | And I 've been living for seven years ! |
| 9 | I did mention that er I 'm a retired tax inspector and I 'm very long retired , I 've been retired for thirteen years , thoroughly enjoying it , hope you too but your first questions w must be what the devil am I doing thirteen years retired tax inspector talking to you on a technical subject , why on earth ca n't you get the real thing ? |
| 10 | Everything they have in that shop is better than the one you 've been wearing for ten years . |
| 11 | In a quiet , gentle , but troubled voice , Cardiff said , ‘ You 've been gone for twenty-six years , Barbara . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Lucky devil , I 've been trying for eight years and still have n't cracked it yet . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been trying for forty years and the margin of error 's still about eighty per cent . ’ |
| 14 | You 've been made for other things than politics and intrigue . ’ |
| 15 | they 've been done for many years |
| 16 | We 've also included in there , on item twelve , a net bill item , but does need to be recognized as an addition to your total spending , and that is , you 've been involved for many years with the health authority in arranging for the discharge of people from long-stay hospitals , and their absorption into the community , and each of these are a provider of many services , and daycare services to those particular individuals . |
| 17 | We 've been bugged for 10 years by a reputation for extremism and division , which we 're just getting rid of . |
| 18 | ‘ But we 've been separated for four years , ’ she reminded him in a more reasonable tone . |
| 19 | He , too , married a girl of his own milieu ; they 've been separated for many years . |
| 20 | I 've been cooking for 7 years now , including my school , my cookery school . |
| 21 | Well obviously there is change and one of the things that we 've been doing for International Women 's celebrations during March , because we 're having a whole month of activities , is |
| 22 | she said ‘ We 've been going for two months with very long hours . ’ |
| 23 | They 've been going for twenty years and er there 's er school is very much , I would have put you straight into schools |
| 24 | ‘ Take my word for it , I 've been going for 30 years since the well was a bucket in a hole in the ground , and there is plenty of water , ’ she said . |
| 25 | I 've been meaning for many weeks now to pass on 's French address , which filtered through to us in January — but of course you may already have had it from or heard from Janet yourself . |
| 26 | No I did n't Stefan , we 've been blamed for some things in our time , have n't we but |
| 27 | In the end , the quacks and medicine men were left with that strange , disembodied feeling you get when you 've been talking for several minutes to someone who is n't there . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been waiting for two hours . ’ |
| 29 | Like here in the north of Australia , I 've been waiting for two days for the light I need for a shot of some valleys . |
| 30 | I 've been waiting for forty years for it |