Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [det] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried to tell him that hospitals had been using such beds for years , but he just went into another tantrum . |
| 2 | CRIME-HIT small firms are demanding more powers for the police and courts today after a survey found that almost 50pc of them have been victims of some sort of crime . |
| 3 | The thousands of children who are born every year , we do n't even know in this country how many there are , because the figures the ca n't be kept , er er and these tend to be children erm born of er , anonymous donors and and I think that as a society we are wreaking such problems for the future , we 're creating secrets for families , and I would really like to hear from my fellow women here about that . |
| 4 | All these months while I 've been writing these letters for her , I 've been putting myself in her place , feeling all the love she feels , remembering things that I never really knew about in the first place . |
| 5 | The French are terrified of the revolutionary movement and are torturing all prisoners for information , with electricity . " |
| 6 | Floods have been causing more problems for motorists . |
| 7 | ‘ But I 've been recommending such improvements for years . ’ |
| 8 | Though I have n't been testing these boots for long before writing this review , initial impressions are very favourable . |
| 9 | And she has a hundred and forty and he 's gotten of cans for the his mum and Stewart 's been getting some cans for the shop for his granddad and I 've been asking for permission to go into the dump and get some for there . |
| 10 | It 's not people only make this job difficult I believe erm if they do n't listen to the people who 's who have been doing these things for twenty years . |
| 11 | And that 's rather a pity because we 've been doing these holidays for a long time now , and I think , those people have enjoyed themselves ? |
| 12 | exactly , but why wait until nineteen eighty eight to discover that , how long had you been doing these estimates for ? , how many years have you been doing ? |
| 13 | They came mainly from Stockholm or , at least , southern Sweden and most had been trudging these paths for decades . |
| 14 | BELGIAN champions Club Brugge will not be selling any tickets for their away European Cup game against Rangers at Ibrox on 17 March . |
| 15 | BELGIAN champions , Club Brugge , will not be selling any tickets for their away European Cup game against Rangers at Ibrox on 17 March . |
| 16 | He 'll be getting all sorts for that young girl ! |
| 17 | No doubt Silver knitters will be reading both articles for fear of missing something . |
| 18 | But try and get them to change now , in fact York seems to be finding more excuses for closing off streets all the time . |
| 19 | Mr Murdoch 's empire recently admitted that mounting debts were taking a toll of its finances — an admission which analysts interpreted as a sign that the group , which owns five British national newspapers , would not be making any purchases for the time being . |
| 20 | I had not been counting own goals for more than a few minutes when I heard extraordinary sounds coming from my wardrobe . |
| 21 | Indeed , objects used for inspiration by the artists in the nineteenth-century Paris studios were from parts of West Africa which had been making such images for European consumption for centuries ( Donne 1978 ) . |
| 22 | With reference to the above leaflet which you are drafting , Business and Communications are receiving many requests for this information from Solicitors . |
| 23 | Third , QC , as Chairman of the Race Relations Committee , is channelling all requests for reconsideration back to the CLE . |
| 24 | The company is building several satellites for European organisations but has yet to win an order from the developing world . |
| 25 | It was a dismal yet necessary task , and whilst one can imagine a young woman 's producing such items for herself and her future husband , it is more difficult for us to accept that she probably also fashioned one or two smaller versions at the same time , for infant mortality was high . |
| 26 | It 's it 's not about being able to get rid of them totally and we agree that we need some sort of level of arousal it 's being able to perform despite them to use that arousal to put into an effective presentation , and that 's what this two days is about is getting those butterflies for you to fly in formation . |
| 27 | The animal will be aware of its prey in that it consciously perceives , pursues , and devours it , but it will be unaware that it is doing these things for the sake of satisfying its wants . |
| 28 | He 's just finished a book and now he 's doing some chapters for the new Cambridge History of Early Britain . ’ |
| 29 | ARMED policeman were last night playing a waiting game outside a country cottage where a man armed with a shotgun was defying all attempts for a negotiated end to the siege . |
| 30 | These were simple little melodramas or lessons of everyday life but what mattered most was bringing these gifts for social detail into play in the grander sermons . |