Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Mum goes what have you been phoning Billy for ? |
| 2 | THE two winners of round-the-world holidays in our exclusive Courtauld News competition are finalising plans for their dream trips in February . |
| 3 | We have been pursuing proposals for some time . |
| 4 | Are building programmes for the next financial year drawn up in time to be available to managers before holidays are allocated ? |
| 5 | In El Salvador , US grants are building barracks for demobilised FMLN guerrillas ; in Nicaragua , General Humberto Ortega , brother of the Sandinista ex-president , Daniel , recently aroused a storm by pinning the Sandinistas ' highest military medal on the chest of the US military attacheé . |
| 6 | Maura had been seeing Terry for nearly five months , and miraculously had managed to keep him a secret . |
| 7 | I had been seeing Jessica for twelve months before she admitted to herself that her lover would never come back . |
| 8 | Get titles right as well and if you are using initials for long names always spell out the name at least once . |
| 9 | It must be stressed , however , that , if the potential dysfunctional effects of ROI use are to be avoided , financial controllers must make it very clear throughout the organization exactly how supervisors are using ROI for evaluation and exactly how it is to be used by SBU and divisional managers . |
| 10 | Others are using multimedia for building planning and maintenance ; Andersen Consulting in the US is developing a database which contains video images showing the location of power cables , water pipes and telephone lines . |
| 11 | The Brazilians are producing lapachol for oral administration as part of a drug therapy for cancer , and the authorities have approved it for clinical trials in humans . |
| 12 | We advise groups or individuals that are producing work for publication to consult with others engaged in the same activity . |
| 13 | Heseltine 's campaign team , having been canvassing backbenchers for several weeks , had already developed a considerable momentum . |
| 14 | There are flashing units for flashing up to abutments or , if desired , these can be reversed to run into gutters . |
| 15 | The arrow icon is for the select tool for choosing the objects you want to work on and the other seven tools in this top group are drawing tools for adding text , polygons , rectangles , lines , ellipses and freehand drawings to a slide . |
| 16 | Derek says … they 've broken a few boats in testing … they 've been building prototypes for the last six months and have been putting in hours at sea to make sure everything is right |
| 17 | I have been producing guidebooks for fifteen years and I have never thought of that . |
| 18 | SunSoft OEMs Solbourne Computer Inc , CompuAdd Corp , Toshiba Corp and Hyundai Electronic Inc are targeting deliveries for next year . |
| 19 | She had been cooking rice for supper . |
| 20 | Analysts are forecasting £40m for the full year . |
| 21 | You , you , you 've all hea heard of Marie Curie , famous erm scientist who pioneered a lot of the work on radioactivity in the early part of this century and the last part of the last century she in fact was Polish , lived in , in , in Paris , married a French man called Pierre er hence she 's known as Marie Curie well Pierre Curie was also a scientist and he was er baffled by the affect that , th the fact that there did n't seem to be any biological affects er certainly the doses of radiation that , that they were , they were getting they 'd handled tons and tons of pitchblende , that 's radioactive ore they extracted several grammes of radium from it , they 'd been handling stuff for years they were n't ill , they obviously had n't died and so on . |
| 22 | Touche Ross , who have been handling negotiations for the sale of the American style Marvels park , say there are several potential buyers . |
| 23 | Our club members had been knitting cushions for charity and at the beginning of question time Georgie asked if she could tell the story of her cushion . |
| 24 | Of course the swell has been gathering force for a century or more , since Joseph Thompson first saw ‘ the most peculiar band of men to be found in Africa ‘ . |
| 25 | It was a process which had been gathering momentum for some time and has continued since . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , a working party report urging positive action on equal opportunities by the Scottish Law Society has been gathering dust for more than a year . |
| 27 | I have been using pasters for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
| 28 | I 've been using RapidCad for a month or so and It 's not given me the slightest problem . |
| 29 | These schools have been using microcomputers for three years and have had substantial teacher training , provision of materials and other support services from the ILEA . |
| 30 | James told magistrates that he had been using speed for about five years and injected himself three or four times a month . |