Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] for two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group had been meeting for two years , and it was mainly a consciousness-raising group , although , with only about twenty groups in London as a whole , some of them , the ‘ housewives ’ , the women who worked part-time were also able to help run the voluntary rota in the central London office , the Women 's Liberation Workshop . |
| 2 | Detectives are hunting for two men following a spate of robberies at the homes of old-age pensioners . |
| 3 | POLICE are searching for two youths who escaped from Castle Huntly young offenders institution in Perthshire last night . |
| 4 | Friends say she never recovered from hearing Gilbey , who she had been dating for two years , tell Diana he loved her — 53 times in the 23 minute call . |
| 5 | We are looking for two things . |
| 6 | Police in York are looking for two sex pests following indecent exposure incidents in Salisbury Terrace and Heslington Road . |
| 7 | I 'm sure most people know by know , that er this show will be coming to you live from Sydney , Australia , for a whole week to mark Australia Day at the end of January , and er the interesting thing from your point of view , is that we are looking for two couples , can be a husband and wife , er mother and daughter , father and son , any combination really , just a couple of friends . |
| 8 | The police are looking for two men , one of them about 23 , with scruffy black hair , a white shirt and blue jacket and trousers . |
| 9 | Evidence for the effect of tax relief on private health insurance premiums for the over 60s is fairly secure since the scheme has been operating for two years . |
| 10 | Intending to be a priest of the Church of England , I lost my faith , slowly but painfully , and at the end of the summer left Oxford and the house in Norham Gardens in which I had been living for two years and in which , by a curious turn of fortune , my office now is . |
| 11 | We 're looking for two couples to make the trip with the programme . |
| 12 | And we 're looking for two couples , er it need n't be husband and wife particularly , although it 'll be er very nice if it is , but it can be mother and daughter , father and son , any combination you like really . |
| 13 | And we 're looking for two couples , four people , two couples , to travel with us , and to find out er , how you will be able to travel , and what you have to do when you get there , stay tuned for the Dougie Down Under Competition , thanks to QUANTAS , Australia 's national airline . |
| 14 | We 're looking for two couples to come to Australia with us and to act as roving reporters . |
| 15 | Now , we 're looking for two couples to accompany us down under , to find out how you can perhaps qualify , stay tuned for the Dougie Down Under competition , thanks to QUANTAS , Australia 's national airline . |
| 16 | We 'll be bringing the show to you live from Sydney , Australia , at the end of January , to mark Australia Day , and we 're looking for two couples , they can be husband and wife , mother and daughter , father and son , any combination you like , even a couple of friends , we 're looking for two couples to come to Australia with the show , and to act as roving reporters . |
| 17 | We 'll be bringing the show to you live from Sydney , Australia , at the end of January , to mark Australia Day , and we 're looking for two couples , they can be husband and wife , mother and daughter , father and son , any combination you like , even a couple of friends , we 're looking for two couples to come to Australia with the show , and to act as roving reporters . |
| 18 | They revealed they 're looking for two suspects . |
| 19 | They revealed they 're looking for two suspects . |
| 20 | Securicor have joined the cowboys on the contract guarding and really I mean you must be getting sick of us getting up every time about security guards , but it 's an important problem and you must know that a lot of you must work at places where you 've got guards on the gate and we all should take a bit of interest in going to see these guards , find out that they 're working for two pound or two pound forty an hour , they 're working as many hours a week as they 'll actually work with no overtime rate , no night rate , no benefits worth having and I mean really I wish you 'd go to your companies and try and arrange site allowances , cos that 's the only way we 'll get any improvements , but when we talk about resolving grievances , we just took in Yorkshire region someone to a tribunal for constructive dismissal . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've been waiting for two hours . ’ |
| 22 | McNeill said : ‘ I have been waiting for two days for this supposed written offer . |
| 23 | Like here in the north of Australia , I 've been waiting for two days for the light I need for a shot of some valleys . |
| 24 | So achieving Marchbanks was a gradual and thoughtful affair — I remember being taken aside by the director and given a whole day after we had been rehearsing for two weeks and simply talking together about the play and about ourselves which was the real making of the part over the next weeks of final rehearsal . |
| 25 | I , I look at these science things where , you know , they 're sending these things , America 's sending them , it 's been going for two year thousands of miles an hour , you know , probably a minute er and the as the man came over who went to the moon , the top man , to lecture and he was asked innumerable questions and one was do you think there 's anything up there ? |
| 26 | It was been going for two years . |
| 27 | she said ‘ We 've been going for two months with very long hours . ’ |
| 28 | He 's just joined the Squadron but he 's been flying for two years . ’ |
| 29 | Mark Turnball , one of the business partners behind Lemmings , said the firm had been running for two years , organising events in many parts of the country . |
| 30 | ‘ In Basildon only 32 out of 8,000 homes were sold and in Scotland where it has been running for two years only 223 out of 6,000 tenants have bought houses . |