Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] for this " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his own way , Ted had been building for this moment too . |
| 2 | The gap in the ESP market has always been at the lower end , and a number of other publishers are catering for this . |
| 3 | Good God , Teddy , the US arms industry has been praying for this war for years . |
| 4 | You might remember I 've been pressing for this for about eighteen bloody months . |
| 5 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 6 | We 've been looking for this car as part of a murder investigation . |
| 7 | Few of us ( unless we are looking for this ) want to become fixated with interest on another individual . |
| 8 | A first time garden is usually small and certainly the typical one I am imagining for this series is no more than 40ft x 20ft and surrounded on all sides by other houses . |
| 9 | I can say without embarrassment that I have been training for this for a long time , that I have learned to breathe the rarefied air , that I now know when to stand still and when to move forward , when to attack and when to retreat , when to leave a problem to resolve itself and when to go on working at it till the solution emerges . |
| 10 | The Southern member states are pushing for this to happen straightaway without having thought through the format of the export document required by the Regulation . |
| 11 | If you 're looking for this cross , I hope you find it . |
| 12 | The additional money that we 're looking for this year er a substantial amount of this will go to funding of the rent for the new premises for the c the Citizens ' Advice Bureau and I do n't propose to stand here and defend the Citizens ' Advice Bureau because it does n't need it , I hope . |
| 13 | Now Right now as , as we 've seen that you , you 're looking for this money for your daughter 's future |
| 14 | Beautiful part of the world , you know , maybe that 's exactly what you wan na do , you wan na kick out Wolverhampton and go for Mytholmroyd particularly if you 've got a house or if your father 's got a house there which is there maybe a lot , a lot , a lot going for it but you 're looking for this long term prospects |
| 15 | On top of that the new point to point season is off and running and that 's where we 're going for this week 's Friday Feature |
| 16 | You 're paying for this boy . |
| 17 | Erm now , so he said erm that 's what they 're aiming for this thing that they want them to do on May the eighteenth plus a sponsorship walk on the sixth of June |
| 18 | As everyone turned to look at him , Jinny realized that he had been waiting for this moment all the time he was explaining his plan . |
| 19 | We , the readers of the narrative , have been waiting for this moment ever since the concluding words of the book of Numbers : ‘ These are the commandments and the ordinances which the Lord commanded by Moses to the people of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I have been waiting for this , you know . |
| 21 | It was as if she had been waiting for this moment for four years or more . |
| 22 | Dowd had been waiting for this man , Matthias McGann , to say his piece . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been waiting for this , ’ says Iain . |
| 24 | She 'd been waiting for this moment for so long , and all she could do , now that it had finally arrived , was think the worst of him , instead of simply being happy to see him again . |
| 25 | I 've been waiting for this moment all week . |
| 26 | Alec d'Urberville , who had been waiting for this moment , appeared at her side . |
| 27 | I 've been waiting for this for so long that I do n't think I can wait any longer — ’ |
| 28 | Tuesday — could it really be only Tuesday when now every cell of her body was alight with a feedback intelligence that told her she had been waiting for this man all her life … |
| 29 | I 've been waiting for this chance since the days of the Witch of Endor . |
| 30 | It was as if Chambers bad been waiting for this admission . |