Example sentences of "[vb base] be [v-ing] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | We 've been looking for this car as part of a murder investigation . |
| 5 | ‘ But I am a bit disappointed that while we 've been appealing for new directors nobody from the town has come forward . ’ |
| 6 | Register Office , handful of guests , parents optional , drink-up at couple 's house ( in which they 've been living for several years already ) . |
| 7 | And I 've been living for seven years ! |
| 8 | Everything they have in that shop is better than the one you 've been wearing for ten years . |
| 9 | ‘ Lucky devil , I 've been trying for eight years and still have n't cracked it yet . ’ |
| 10 | We 've been trying for some time to employ as many players as possible during the winter , and this sponsorship means that it should be possible to take the worry of finding winter employment away from virtually all of them . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been trying for forty years and the margin of error 's still about eighty per cent . ’ |
| 12 | I 've been cooking for 7 years now , including my school , my cookery school . |
| 13 | All except , I can see , you know when they 've been asking for this money ? |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | she said ‘ We 've been going for two months with very long hours . ’ |
| 16 | They 've been going for twenty years and er there 's er school is very much , I would have put you straight into schools |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | We 've been feeling for some time that our children are feeling that they 've been left alone , because er when they come to the temple they are too young to understand anything which is being explained from the stage , because er the speakers , or the preachers , have to cater for all the age groups and normally it 's for the , those who understand , already understand about Sikhism . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's what we 've been working for all season , ’ said the delighted Whitham , who now has his sights set on the international scene for 1994 , either in Superbikes or the 500cc Grand Prix series . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Well of course I 've been saying for some time now , for some time , and I want to underline that , and I hope the government are listening that we 've had twenty thousand troops on our streets , we 've twelve thousand armed policemen on our streets , we have the strictest security laws in Western Europe , and none of these things have solved our problem . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been waiting for two hours . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I 've been waiting for this day all week . |
| 26 | I just said , goodness , I said we 've been waiting for this parcel since before Christmas and he says oh have you duck . |
| 27 | I 've been waiting for this chance since the days of the Witch of Endor . |
| 28 | I 've been waiting for this moment all week . |
| 29 | I 've been waiting for forty years for it |
| 30 | Oxford ca n't grumble they 've been winning for 15 years … its Cambridge 's turn but Oxford will be back on top next year |