Example sentences of "[vb base] be [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also reaffirmed was a commitment to protect the environment and to the creation of a new regional ecological order , support being expressed for the Costa Rican government 's proposal calling on the UN to establish a Council of the Planet Earth during the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Brazil in 1992 . |
| 2 | We are reminded that the romance we seek is constructed for the outsider . |
| 3 | ‘ Then obviously I 've been looking for the wrong qualities in my secretaries . ’ |
| 4 | They 've been living for the last ten years in an environment where they expect there to be a high level of occult activity in society . |
| 5 | ‘ As a matter of fact I 've been living for the past two years with a wonderful man . |
| 6 | Then nine tenths of the rubbish they 've been printing for the last few weeks will be seen for what it is . |
| 7 | They 've been expanding for the last four years . |
| 8 | They 've been digging for the chemicals , been tortured and crucified , again and again . |
| 9 | It was found in a garden where they 've been digging for the past six weeks . |
| 10 | Dictating condolences to the mother of a murdered husband whom you 've been cuckolding for the last three years would take more than his limited social vocabulary . |
| 11 | I 've been farming for the last 70 years and never seen anything like it . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ You 're a bloody good photographer and the work you 've been doing for the last five years proves it . |
| 13 | ‘ I want to know what you 've been doing for the past four days . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ What you 've been doing for the past four months ! |
| 15 | A game of tag ( see below ) may well be just the thing ; but if they 've just come in from the playground and that 's what they 've been doing for the last fifteen minutes , it would be a bit of a waste of time . |
| 16 | It beats changing nappies , which is what I 've been doing for the last 5 months . |
| 17 | Siegfried , I do n't know what you 'll think , but I 've been recommended for the MC — and I 've recommended every single NCO who was with me . |
| 18 | ‘ What the ‘ ell do you think we 've been doin' for the last hour ? ’ asked Tommy . |
| 19 | and they can put that on the recorder but I 've been told for the last two and a half years by this government that I am not unemployed . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been excused for the moment . |
| 21 | Because they 've come out with a report saying what we 've been saying for the |
| 22 | Rory , have you heard a single word I 've been saying for the past five mintues ? ’ |
| 23 | We 've been waiting for the knight in shining armour and then there is n't one . |
| 24 | I 've been waiting for the battery to run down . |
| 25 | Well , we 've been waiting for the protractors , we have n't been |
| 26 | Look at the times I 've been refused for the forces . |
| 27 | Realistically , I 've been applying for the sort of job that will pay me enough money to keep me going when I retire . |
| 28 | They 've been bought for the fact that all over the country there 's all these holes in the wall and people are putting up shelves , building furniture or whatever . |
| 29 | ARRANGEMENTS have been completed for the sale of the Adidas sporting goods company to Robert Louis-Dreyfus , the chief executive of Saatchi & Saatchi , and allied French investors , a French business paper reported yesterday . |
| 30 | ( The reformulations have been italicised for the purpose of the present discussion ) . |