Example sentences of "[verb] be [verb] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | By comparison , a sheepdog has been recorded barking for seven hours non-stop and a cocker spaniel is capable of cramming over 900 yelps into a ten-minute period . |
| 2 | She reached across the desk , grabbed the instrument and began tapping out a number with the angry , impatient air of someone who has been kept waiting for an unacceptably long time . |
| 3 | Evans , missing for over a season after failing to agree a contract with Saints , has been caught playing for Grenoble against Toulon . |
| 4 | Dennis hated being kept waiting for his drink . |
| 5 | Today 's heroes are there , all you have to do is go looking for them . |
| 6 | I ca n't be certain how much I would have been earning working for myself … ’ |
| 7 | The time that would have been spent waiting for the Department of Social Security to answer the telephone might instead have been used to uncover what Sally 's own priorities are . |
| 8 | The authority says dealing with the problems caused by the squatters wasted money that ought to have been spent caring for patients . |
| 9 | Bratti had been discovered spying for a rival security service . |
| 10 | He hailed almost certainly from the region of the lower Loire , where a close kinsman ( perhaps his father ) had been killed fighting for Louis the Pious in 834 and already before 842 another probable close kinsman , Rainald , was count of Herbauge and dux of Nantes . |
| 11 | After I had been kept waiting for a few moments in an ante-room , I was ushered into the main boardroom where Dr Barton and six colleagues were seated around a long , rectangular , polished table . |
| 12 | Powerhouse walked out after complaining that they had been kept waiting for 40 minutes for the court and Components Bureau claimed the points by default and then appealed unsuccessfully against the Scottish Association 's decision to rearrange the fixture . |
| 13 | She had no fire in her bedroom , where she had been sitting waiting for his call , and staring at the dying mistletoe . |
| 14 | Do n't ask me Matt , I 've been sitting talking for many long days |
| 15 | Lalande wrote of him in 1763 : ‘ Sisson has been several times in prison for failing to pay his workmen [ of whom Jesse Ramsden , q.v. , was one ] ; he starts many things and finishes nothing : he takes his instruments to the pawnbroker , where they have been seen selling for a tenth of their value . |
| 16 | ‘ You can do nothing to make up for the time that 's been wasted checking for a link between that incident and the murder of Hal MacQuillan . ’ |
| 17 | A woman detective whose face she recognized was standing waiting for her . |