Example sentences of "[vb base] be [v-ing] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , so what were doing is were , we hope were waiting for a new prisoner to be allocated to us , erm , and perhaps we could , perhaps we could , perhaps we can write and remind you think , think we should do that ? |
| 2 | I 've been looking for a pair of doctor martins ca n't find any . |
| 3 | I 've been saving for a long time with Alma |
| 4 | This includes women who 've been trying for a test tube baby , have a history of pelvic inflammatory disease or sexually transmitted diseases , have suffered previous ectopic pregnancy , or surgery on their tubes , and those who 've had infertility problems . |
| 5 | I 've been pushing for a long time but erm down here ? |
| 6 | Aggie 's friend knows about him , but , as he said , they ca n't pin anything on to him ; they 've been tryin' for a long time . |
| 7 | ‘ Dr Williams said , ‘ You 've been spoiling for a fight , now you 've got it ’ ’ . |
| 8 | It 's one of the delightful , I 've been recruiting for a long time and it 's it 's one of those erm delightful things to be able to say to people on the phone when they tell me they 're fifty or fifty four to say that 's not a problem . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been walking for a week . ’ |
| 10 | This is a firm and they 've been going for a number of years . |
| 11 | I 've been working for a company that constructs oil rigs and my job involved a lot of moving around . ’ |
| 12 | The other thing we do sort of every now and then , and next time will be Easter , we actually have some people in costume who actually reoccupy the house over Waster weekend in this case as as the household of William and they 've been coming for a long time now and they 've got set into the set into their roles quite well . |
| 13 | Because we 've been talking for a while so had time for it to evaporate . |
| 14 | I 'm sending you a document I 've been keeping for a friend . |
| 15 | ‘ In the letter , Tristram said ‘ I 'm sending you a document I 've been keeping for a friend ’ . |
| 16 | It shows what we 've been saying for a long time , how fragile the markets in this recycling are , and I still stick to what I 've thought all along , that marketing comes first and making the product comes second . |
| 17 | " Actually I think I 'm rather hungry — I 've been longing for a sandwich . |
| 18 | I 've been lurking for a couple of months now and I had a couple thoughts : |
| 19 | Let us assume that agents have been flirting for a while with the use of the adaptive expectations mechanism but that , in the light of the persistent , systematic errors which this mechanism entails , they quickly abandon it . |
| 20 | The woman , who is married and lives in Formby , Sefton , said : ‘ I have been trying for a child for 19 years . |
| 21 | Wildlife groups such as the Worldwide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) have been pushing for a ban on fishing , but have been strongly opposed by the fishing industry . |
| 22 | The opposition , a diverse and mostly respectable group of people who have been clamouring for a bit of say in the new Kuwait , did not get even a token position . |
| 23 | ‘ Rail services in the North-East have been deteriorating for a number of years with reduced frequencies , later first trains and earlier last trains , ’ he said . |
| 24 | Well , I agreed not to speak more than half an hour , but I see that I have been speaking for a little longer than forty-five minutes . |
| 25 | Some have been living for a disconcertingly long time in museums ; but once doubted , the evidence of inadequacy in a fake is quite often soon in coming . |
| 26 | I have been looking for a recording ( with some difficulty ) , since not many shops are prepared to let me listen to different interpretations ) , indeed I purchased the Royal Opera House , Covent Garden/Marc Ermler offering only to be disappointed , all because I wanted CD sound quality to replace a home-made cassette of a live Radio 3 broadcast ( should I be telling you this ? ) |
| 27 | Scientific director Gordon McVie said : ‘ We have been looking for a link between diet and cancer for 20 years now and this could be it . |
| 28 | Everton have been looking for a target man to bring out the best in Mo Johnston and Peter Beardsley . |
| 29 | Darlington councillor Frank Robson , chairman of the town 's twinning sub-committee , said : ‘ We already have twin towns in Germany and France and have been looking for a twin in Eastern Europe for some time . |
| 30 | When we have breakfast , on the 8th floor , we can look down on the river , and watch all the river traffic , including large passenger vessels , big merchant ships belching smoke , strings of wooden barges , and big and small old-fashioned junks , which look as if they have been sailing for a 100 years at least . |