Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [prep] [noun prp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ironically his former club are competing with Middlesbrough for a play-off place but there can be no doubt that , despite the Kevin Keegan and Denis Smith events of recent months that Middlesbrough are the team of the moment . |
| 2 | However , according to Zakrewski the government has ruled that the duty-free import quotas will only be divided up among home-grown or foreign companies that have been assembling in Poland for two years , while other firms will face levies at the old rates . |
| 3 | Further south , the coastal merchants of west Africa had been trading with Europe for several centuries . |
| 4 | She was born in Smyrna , a member of a British family who had been trading in Turkey for over 130 years . |
| 5 | Their analysis may not go any deeper than that , but it is expressed in a way which impresses Letterman , a sort of passionate commitment to the power of the idea which he has — subversively — been advocating in Hollywood for years . |
| 6 | ‘ Britain 's influence is much weaker and countries are looking to Germany for a lead , ’ he said . |
| 7 | THE WORLD 'S leading space explorers are looking to Europe for help in probing new corners of the Solar System over the next two decades . |
| 8 | ‘ The household priests are looking to Osiris for guidance . |
| 9 | The Open School has been operating in Johannesburg for more than 20 years . |
| 10 | In fact , a number of political parties and movements have been operating in Lithuania for some time , as in Estonia and Latvia ; the constitutional change merely recognises the existing situation . |
| 11 | My husband has not paid the community charge which has been operating in Scotland for a year . |
| 12 | He says even though his company as been operating in Spain for the past 10 years , it has found it difficult to establish a market there . |
| 13 | As Lou 's story progressed , however , it emerged that she had been living with Rick for several months and had high hopes of becoming engaged to him herself . |
| 14 | He was overlooking the fact that I had been living with Jean-Claude for more than three years . |
| 15 | They had been living at Riverstown for two months before the first invitation came . |
| 16 | Originally from Inverness , Mr Cordial and his family have been living in Durham for 40 years . |
| 17 | ‘ No , I am American , from the East Coast , but I have been living in England for some time . ’ |
| 18 | The Cossarts were Huguenots but had been living in Ireland for many years . |
| 19 | so I mean if , if they caught one , they actually took a photo , managed to take a photo out of all those hundreds of people , look how many more were , were there , and it just seems like basically their not sure who fired first , obviously the Irish say it was the British them and the British say they were fired upon first and erm , on , on the strength of it , who , who would you rather believe I mean , somebody that 's been living in Ireland for twenty odd yea twenty years now with all that happening around him being able to be got at by the I R A or a British body who may , may be up on a murder trial , you know , the , at the end of the day its six of one and half a dozen of the other , they 've both got stuffed by a bleeding troop |
| 20 | But that belonged to a white person who was , who could speak Punjabi very well , I think he wa he has been living in India for some time . |
| 21 | Sabine , whose mother is German and father is Irish , has been living in Stuttgart for one year . |
| 22 | At Benjamin Rhodes , there are new paintings by Simon Edmondson ( 17 June-7 August ) , who has been living in Madrid for the last twelve months and previously showed with Nicola Jacobs . |
| 23 | You do n't miss a day off school just because you 're going to France for a day |
| 24 | You 're going to Ireland for your honeymoon . |
| 25 | Yes , we 're interviewing so we 're interviewing on Friday for somebody to fill that post . |
| 26 | ‘ You 're coming to Highbury for training because you will be playing in the replay . ’ |
| 27 | COMIC giants are flooding into Merseyside for this year 's Liverpool Festival of Comedy . |
| 28 | He said : ‘ We have been waiting since April for the sentence but another man could do this . |
| 29 | Stanley has been going to Scourie for more than twenty years and knows every single blade of grass and stone , by name ; he can take you to a loch and point out precisely where you will catch fish and where you wo n't , to the inch , and Stanley is never wrong . |
| 30 | Philip Jones Griffiths , a Magnum photographer who has been going to Vietnam for 23 years , say , s ‘ We used to joke that you can take the photographer out of Vietnam but not Vietnam out of the photographer ’ . |