Example sentences of "be [verb] for [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Surely I already know what the contents of our contract are — namely , that I am to work for you for a period of eighteen months , after which time you will release me with my debt to you cancelled ? ’ |
| 2 | We have been looking for her for three weeks . |
| 3 | ‘ We 've been looking for you for ages , ’ he said . |
| 4 | We 've been looking for you for some months . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been looking for you for days , now , ’ he said . |
| 6 | I 've been looking for you for years , but I only knew the name that she used to call you — Prince Charming . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been looking for you for years — Prince Charming . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been looking for it for years , but I 'm not in charge of promotion and the people senior to me in my department are some of the most brilliant minds in England , and elsewhere for that matter . ’ |
| 9 | You have been looking for it for eight years . |
| 10 | Those fantasies that had protected her from real life , that beautiful , unpolluted world of the Lock with its seals and its childhood memories of her father and that other glossy , television world that she imagined people like Simon inhabited , had been ruined for her for ever . |
| 11 | For example , if you are looking for something for your in-foal mare , choose a supplement which has been made specifically for this purpose such as Medi Equus stud formula . |
| 12 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
| 13 | ‘ Hullo , Pranger , I 've been waiting for you for years . ’ |
| 14 | " I 've been waiting for you for six hours . |
| 15 | We 've all been waiting for you for hours . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been waiting for you for the past three hours , pacing the corridors , wearing out the carpet . |
| 17 | We must , surely , eventually get to recovery , but we have been waiting for it for a long time . |
| 18 | Ken told the story as though it had been scripted for him for Hancock 's Half Hour . |
| 19 | They 'll let me in. — I 've been doing for her for years . ’ |
| 20 | Well Dennis er Roger 's been doing for it for Leeds North West have n't you ? |
| 21 | ‘ The chief ‘ s been asking for you for some time , Mr Wycliffe . ’ |
| 22 | Can you possibly arrange for a BVU copy to be made for us for posting by Thursday this week ? |
| 23 | Now I 'm looking for something for Penny , which is n't very expensive but nice , you know . |
| 24 | So far , I have a car driver and a motor cyclist and I 'm looking for someone for the bus and train , and possibly taxi . |
| 25 | Retirement is one of the few moments which a politician can choose with deliberation and Baldwin had been preparing for it for months , if not for years . |
| 26 | So that one really is telling a story , commemorating something in Danish history , when they were fighting for their for their freedom . |
| 27 | He had about a dozen lorries on the road , and machines er working the roads there , all they were working for nothing for him , these lads and he 'd come along and before Christmas he 'd stop a couple of them , just before Christmas , he used to do that every year . |
| 28 | Living Dead and Terminator slippers — people had been queuing for them for God 's sake — were being returned unused to the shops and credit notes cashed in for balls of wool and packets of scraperboard . |
| 29 | No-one 's asking for owt for nowt , I 'd be happy to work instead of getting benefits . |
| 30 | Lot number ninety Lot number ninety , the horn box the horn box and cover is showing for you for a hundred pounds one hundred pounds any more at one hundred pounds ? |