Example sentences of "they [vb base] [be] [v-ing] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Register Office , handful of guests , parents optional , drink-up at couple 's house ( in which they 've been living for several years already ) . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | All except , I can see , you know when they 've been asking for this money ? |
| 4 | They 've been going for twenty years and er there 's er school is very much , I would have put you straight into schools |
| 5 | ‘ I do not wish to be hard upon poor people in great affliction ; but I can not help thinking that they have been doing for hundreds of years past something very like what the Bible calls ‘ tempting God' ’ — staking their property and their lives upon the chances or no earthquakes coming , while they ought to have known that an earthquake might come an day . ’ |
| 6 | They have been waiting for these choice morsels — dessert . |
| 7 | A buy-in of shares may be the appropriate method of effecting a management buy-out where certain shareholders wish to realise their investment in a business which they have been running for some time , or they wish to retire , and there is a management team willing to continue with the business and become the new shareholders . |