Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [vb base] [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ So I 've been grieving for him . ’ |
2 | If you have been hunting for the perfect diet for a very long time it will be difficult to stop , actually to believe that good weight control can be established without resorting to one special diet that you go on ( and then , and this is the snag , come off again ) . |
3 | if they have been sniffing for so e time , arrange a health check |
4 | When we have breakfast , on the 8th floor , we can look down on the river , and watch all the river traffic , including large passenger vessels , big merchant ships belching smoke , strings of wooden barges , and big and small old-fashioned junks , which look as if they have been sailing for a 100 years at least . |
5 | You learn by doing , because you have been talking for a long time . |
6 | Because we 've been talking for a while so had time for it to evaporate . |
7 | you know , he 's that sort of bloke , he 's a very nice bloke and he 's got a heart of gold and he 's saved us no end of the money ai n't he , since I 've been working for him ? |
8 | ‘ But I am a bit disappointed that while we 've been appealing for new directors nobody from the town has come forward . ’ |
9 | After you have been walking for about ten minutes take your pulse . |
10 | Selfing populations of plants could be valuable material , although the retention of unused yet presumably expensive floral features in some populations raised doubts as to whether they have been selfing for long enough to reach evolutionary equilibrium . |
11 | Perhaps my hon. Friend does not know that the Government have just announced that they intend to nationalise the private enterprise operation that I am running , which entails my sending those replies to all Opposition Members — as I have been doing for the past three months — and , this month , to Conservative Members , following an offer made to their Whips some time ago . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | When you have been teaching for as long as I have you 'll realise that it 's no good at all being kind to children . |
14 | We are fighting to trade freely and openly within the law , as we have been doing for many years . |