Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] [v-ing] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael had originally intended to run Royal Ballerina in the Prix Vermeille at Longchamp the day after the St Leger and now Kauntze is hoping for dry conditions at Doncaster for what he regards as an easier race . |
| 2 | Michael had originally intended to run Royal Ballerina in the Prix Vermeille at Longchamp the day after the St Leger and now Kauntze is hoping for dry conditions at Doncaster for what he regards as an easier race . |
| 3 | But we do n't as a regular thing do much as far as the public is concerned but what we do do is training for tropical foresters , and during the summer vac . |
| 4 | No he said , I ca n't give it back to you , you 're the person that I 've been looking for all my life . |
| 5 | I 've been looking for that all week ! |
| 6 | Yeah I know but Marks and Spencers are a crap shop I do n't care if they go out of business they 're a rip off anyway , they 're so expensive , such crap clothes , they 're so common , that 's the word I 've been looking for common , that 's my word of the week I think er common common , does it not get to ya looking like everyone else ? |
| 7 | We 've been looking for this car as part of a murder investigation . |
| 8 | ‘ But I am a bit disappointed that while we 've been appealing for new directors nobody from the town has come forward . ’ |
| 9 | Register Office , handful of guests , parents optional , drink-up at couple 's house ( in which they 've been living for several years already ) . |
| 10 | And I 've been living for seven years ! |
| 11 | Everything they have in that shop is better than the one you 've been wearing for ten years . |
| 12 | ‘ Lucky devil , I 've been trying for eight years and still have n't cracked it yet . ’ |
| 13 | We 've been trying for some time to employ as many players as possible during the winter , and this sponsorship means that it should be possible to take the worry of finding winter employment away from virtually all of them . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been trying for forty years and the margin of error 's still about eighty per cent . ’ |
| 15 | The single parent building a home on supplementary benefit does n't have the tools acquired by workers who 've been earning for twenty or forty years . |
| 16 | I 've been cooking for 7 years now , including my school , my cookery school . |
| 17 | Now we 've been asking for this for years . |
| 18 | ‘ You 've been asking for this all night ! ’ |
| 19 | All except , I can see , you know when they 've been asking for this money ? |
| 20 | Well obviously there is change and one of the things that we 've been doing for International Women 's celebrations during March , because we 're having a whole month of activities , is |
| 21 | You might remember I 've been pressing for this for about eighteen bloody months . |
| 22 | she said ‘ We 've been going for two months with very long hours . ’ |
| 23 | Er , we 've been going for twenty six years er , and we now manage around about three thousand properties and are building er and selling around about seven hundred properties a year for , for rent and low cost home ownership . |
| 24 | They 've been going for twenty years and er there 's er school is very much , I would have put you straight into schools |
| 25 | ‘ Take my word for it , I 've been going for 30 years since the well was a bucket in a hole in the ground , and there is plenty of water , ’ she said . |
| 26 | We 've been feeling for some time that our children are feeling that they 've been left alone , because er when they come to the temple they are too young to understand anything which is being explained from the stage , because er the speakers , or the preachers , have to cater for all the age groups and normally it 's for the , those who understand , already understand about Sikhism . |
| 27 | I 've been planning for this , too , over the last few days . |
| 28 | I 've been meaning for many weeks now to pass on 's French address , which filtered through to us in January — but of course you may already have had it from or heard from Janet yourself . |
| 29 | I can do it , but I 've been driving for two and a half years |
| 30 | ‘ It 's what we 've been working for all season , ’ said the delighted Whitham , who now has his sights set on the international scene for 1994 , either in Superbikes or the 500cc Grand Prix series . |