Example sentences of "[verb] be [v-ing] for [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old detractors may remain unconvinced , but taking ‘ Outernational ’ on its own merits — and leaving the past where it 's best left — this has to be the culmination of what Mackenzie has been striving for through those half-pitched albums of the late '80s . |
| 2 | ‘ THIS drama about the decline of our coal mines has been running for at least 75 years . |
| 3 | Can I also say really I agree with Martin when he said erm , and has been saying for at least six months that surely we have more important things to , to talk about than , than this and I 'm sorry for Martin that he had to erm , give in really and put this I was the movement of the amendment in January ninety two erm , which confirmed that the rights of tenants and old occupiers of land in county council ownership to er allow or stop fox hunting over land in their care . |
| 4 | For a band that has been performing for around a decade , their output is remarkably small , but perfectly formed . |
| 5 | I mean the doctor was no help and I 'd been waiting for over a coupla months to get into the Clinic for a detox . |
| 6 | That 's what they 'd been fighting for for twenty years . |
| 7 | We 'd been shagging for about a month . |
| 8 | The only difference is that I suppose er at we have er which is development in North Stockton , we have er erm permission for four hundred erm executive dwellings which is the sort of er market which you could have been looking for at in the past . |
| 9 | She would never find now whatever it was she had been looking for from life . |
| 10 | This was the moment he had been waiting for since his ordination . |
| 11 | Then finally , Paul Reichmann saw the opportunity he had been waiting for in London , a city he fondly recalled from the days when he studied there as a young man . |
| 12 | On the other hand , virtually all the demands which the Anglicans had been pressing for in their attempts to come to terms with James , such as those made by the bishops in their meeting with the King on 3 October , did . |
| 13 | He says , here 's something , he says , we , we 've been looking for for years and here 's me stumbling on it accidentally . |
| 14 | The one you 've been looking for for ages ? |
| 15 | Something that we 've been looking for for months and months ! |
| 16 | ‘ What I 've been using for about the last five years are Seymour Duncan amps . |
| 17 | I 've been waiting for on one . |
| 18 | no I love camping , we 've been camping for about oh more than thirty years |
| 19 | Scientists have been warning for at least 30 years that humankind 's pollution of the atmosphere was about to have serious effect . |
| 20 | ‘ This is what I have been waiting for to really make the hotel complete . ’ |
| 21 | What Reader 's Digest with its enormous great computers have been doing for at least ten years , now people with small computers and a word-processing package can do for themselves , and certainly they would be selecting from their customer lists particular people to send particular advertising to and special letters . |
| 22 | This is what goats have been asking for in the their prayers . |
| 23 | Brightest spot : the final , disgraceful death of the opinion poll industry , which I have been campaigning for since 1983 . |
| 24 | This is something that the G M B have been campaigning for since nineteen ninety . |
| 25 | This will bring in reforms of the kind which the Consumers ' Association have been campaigning for over many a long year . |
| 26 | If he 's been travelling for for zero hours , how far has he gone ? |