Example sentences of "he [verb] be [v-ing] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he has been looking for the little creep to beat him up for having steered him wrong , he realises that it is better to be with someone , even someone like Ratso , than to be alone . |
| 2 | ‘ He has been calling for a … ’ he glanced importantly at his notebook ‘ … |
| 3 | The trouble with the right hon. Gentleman is that he has been searching for a way to do nothing about this problem . |
| 4 | He has been waiting for the right offer for some time after turning down an approach from Italian club Pisa several seasons ago . |
| 5 | By the exhausted mechanical sound of it he has been sobbing for a long time . |
| 6 | He will himself present new data on the cohort of doctors he has been studying for the past 40 years , while his colleagues will review current knowledge on some of the many other topics that he has studied — including the effects on health of oral contraceptives , the parts played by radiation and by asbestos in various cancers , and patterns and trends in mortality . |
| 7 | Although he has had his feet under the desk only since January , he has been preparing for the job since last summer by meeting researchers and officials , visiting institutes abroad and drawing up an initial draft of his plans . |
| 8 | In a conventional world , the Chancellor would simply roll his forecasts forward as he has been doing for the past two years now . |
| 9 | And he had to go and train somewhere down south , but he 's got a he , apparently he 'd been trying for a year and he 's got to Accrington . |
| 10 | And he would ask a few questions , say he 'd been looking for a few hours . |
| 11 | Just as hapless as the plundering Norse overlord he 'd been playing for the past few weeks ! |
| 12 | But that was what he 'd been doing for the past several minutes . |
| 13 | Prince Charles said he 'd been waiting for a year for the chance to speak publiclty about the fate of the Marsh Arabs . |
| 14 | In 1969 Josef Frolik of the Czechoslovakian intelligence service defected to the CIA with his wife and proceeded to give some startling information about numerous British Labour Party politicians and trade union officials who he claimed were working for the KGB . |
| 15 | Since he 'd arrived at Montpelier Square he had been listening for the slightest movement elsewhere in the flat . |
| 16 | Howard had , after a quick tour of the TARDIS , retired to his office with a brandy bottle he had been saving for a special occasion . |
| 17 | This was it , the confrontation-point which he had been dreading for the best part of a week . |
| 18 | He had been looking for a place to live . |
| 19 | He was inclined to believe he had been looking for an excuse to ring her , which was foolish because he did not need an excuse . |
| 20 | He had been looking for the Face of Death . |
| 21 | He had been looking for the omen Heather might have nerved herself to disregard . |
| 22 | Wordsworth 's poetic fluency had never been greater , and the landscape near Tintern Abbey , revisited after an absence of five years , released from him a stream of meditative blank verse quite different in style from the humble poems of rural life he had been writing for the Lyrical Ballads . |
| 23 | The victim was slumped over a freezer where he had been searching for a gas leak . |
| 24 | He seemed eager to talk , as if he had been searching for a listener for some time . |
| 25 | He had borrowed it from a fellow inmate of the lodging house in Kennington where he had been staying for the last week . |
| 26 | As the door closed , Zen let out a breath he realized he had been holding for a long time . |
| 27 | Then Andy took his wedge , which he had been swinging for the last ten minutes , and hit the perfect , or apparently perfect shot , straight at the flag . |
| 28 | One particularly nasty German television journalist informed me that he had been waiting for a month and if anyone was getting near Ortega , it was him . |
| 29 | He had been waiting for the spirit warrior his father had told him of in infancy , the One-Eyed White Girl . |
| 30 | Because he thought that he was dealing with the National Press rather than simply a few local people whom he had been ignoring for a considerable time , the Mayor responded to direct questioning , even if he did not change his colours . |