Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [prep] [pers pn] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that was just a hope he 'd been tossing at me for a couple of years without any interest from me . |
| 2 | I 've been listening to it for a while . |
| 3 | ‘ My dear , your real mother has been looking after you for the past twenty years , ’ said Miss Rose sharply . |
| 4 | But if you 're looking to me for a list of who really makes which strings , I 've found that asking straight questions does n't always get you straight answers . |
| 5 | handled the caulking machines , and they can be If if you 're working with them for a length of time , they can get fairly heavy and laborious you know . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been waiting for you for the past three hours , pacing the corridors , wearing out the carpet . |
| 7 | We must , surely , eventually get to recovery , but we have been waiting for it for a long time . |
| 8 | ‘ She 's been staying with us for a few days . ’ |
| 9 | You will also find a splendid array of fine performers who are coming to us for the first time — many surely due to be favourites of the future . |
| 10 | Her glance rested on him only for a matter of seconds , yet his face could not have registered more in her mind had she been staring at him for an hour . |
| 11 | I 've been staring at it for the past hour , waiting for it to start twitching around like a fat little worm on a fishing hook . |
| 12 | In October 1869 he wrote to Rohde : a whole lot of aesthetic problems and answers have been bubbling inside me for the last few years … of course , Wagner is in a very pregnant sense beneficial , especially as , an example incomprehensible on the basis of traditional aesthetics … ; and a few months later he was proclaiming to another correspondent a " marvellously new and changed … |
| 13 | Mr Hurd needs no minders , but the 60 Tory MPs who declined to support Mrs Thatcher for leader last week , plus MEPs , this week 's Lords report and many industrialists will be looking to him for a more emollient performance in difficult circumstances . |
| 14 | Mr Hurd needs no minders , but the 60 Tory MPs who declined to support Mrs Thatcher for leader last week , plus MEPs , this week 's Lords report and many industrialists will be looking to him for a more emollient performance in difficult circumstances . |
| 15 | They do n't pay me much , but I 'm looking about me for a good opportunity . |
| 16 | Maria 's sister is ill , so she will be staying with her for a few days . ’ |
| 17 | I 've told the teeniest weeniest white lie and said that I will only be staying with you for a week or so . " |
| 18 | ‘ Lady Isabel will be staying with us for a short time . |
| 19 | Then Riven asked the question that had been gnawing at him for the last day : ‘ What about Murtach ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Sara Lee 's been playing with us for a while ; it was Scott Litt ( REM producer ) who recommended her , and I love the way she plays bass . |
| 21 | ‘ But you 've only been talking to them for a little while ! ’ said Angalo . |
| 22 | For example , if someone gave as their hobbies on their CV only reading and chess , and they were applying to you for a job where they would be working with the public , might you not have doubts about that person ? |
| 23 | He was just about to shrug off the question with ‘ I du n no ’ when he noticed that George and the twins were looking at him for an answer . |
| 24 | He knew the pattern of the carpet by heart but now it was as if he were looking at it for the first time , taking it all in , the design of orange and black squares . |
| 25 | Having delivered Eliot to those who were looking after him for the night , we walked back to our colleges discussing the evening , with the ardour of youth which included that most interesting of contests , the comparison of recollections . |
| 26 | I recently heard of a family who invited to church some friends who were staying with them for the weekend . |
| 27 | Had n't been bothering with them for a while , now . |
| 28 | Easy to get carried away if someone is bidding against you for a particular fish . |
| 29 | Erm Sandy 's staying with her for a few days . |
| 30 | Erm , Sandy 's staying with her for a few days . |