Example sentences of "[subord] you [vb base] [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | You learn by doing , because you have been talking for a long time . |
| 3 | After you have been walking for about ten minutes take your pulse . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |