Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the past year German authorities withdrew approval for certain components which Cameron and some other hot-air balloon manufacturers have been using worldwide for the past 20 years . |
| 2 | I 'm 32 and have been climbing seriously for the last 18 years , which helped me get accepted . |
| 3 | Australian mining companies have been pressing hard for the upgrade for the past 18 months but , ironically , demand for Landsat data in the last few months has dropped by 60 per cent . |
| 4 | Mr Devi Lal , for example , who had been lobbying hard for the home ministry to add to his deputy premiership , had to content himself with the agriculture ministry . |
| 5 | I have started divorce proceedings , as we have been living apart for the last two months , but now he is pleading with me to take him back . |
| 6 | I have started divorce proceedings , as we have been living apart for the last two months , but now he is pleading with me to take him back . |
| 7 | Hell 's teeth , baby — we 've been living together for the last two years or more . ’ |
| 8 | His remarks will disappoint many right-wing Tories who have been pushing hard for the Government to give a firm commitment to privatisation . |
| 9 | His remarks will disappoint many right-wing Tories who have been pushing hard for the Government to give a firm commitment to privatisation . |
| 10 | And then you 're going away for the weekend ? |
| 11 | ‘ Now we 're going home for the first proper Christmas Laura has ever had , ’ said Fran . |
| 12 | Cos you 're paying actually for the boxes , it says . |
| 13 | We 're talking just for the sake of it are n't we ? |
| 14 | ‘ We 've been rehearsing steadily for the tour and live we are very confrontational . |
| 15 | Mark ‘ Zippy ’ Pretty has finally got over his mid-life crisis by red-pointing Mecca at Raven Tor , and has been celebrating continuously for the last six weeks . |
| 16 | Today a majority of those travelling south over the Gotthard are heading either for the popular lakeside resorts of the Ticino , or beyond that into Italy . |
| 17 | Plans are going ahead for the proposed course — arrival on the Friday 16th May — start 17th May and end 23rd May — departure Saturday 24th May . |
| 18 | Do you think I 've been staying here for the good of my health ? |
| 19 | The ovoid seemed to project a kind of deadly aura and , as Rostov compared the black egg shape with his memory of the framework structures which he had encountered previously , he wondered if the designers had been striving consciously for the visual effect which they had achieved . |
| 20 | I 've been doing well for the last week , but I took this heavy cold , well from Thursday , since I 've took this heavy cold I 've hardly smoked . |
| 21 | Most developed countries are doing so already — and in fact have been doing so for the past sixty years . |
| 22 | This was partly because Picasso , like Braque , was at this time working largely from memory ; indeed he had been doing so for the past three years . |
| 23 | About three years ago I was running a workshop for students training to be secondary teachers at the Institute of Education in London , something I and colleagues have been doing annually for the last ten years or so . |
| 24 | At premium prices , the independent papers are opting firmly for the high ground . |
| 25 | ‘ They have been coming here for the past six years . ’ |
| 26 | Iago seems to be acting wholly for the others ' good , since , as he challenges us to deny , ‘ this advice I give is free and honest . |
| 27 | At the Invalidenstrasse crossing , an older man wept as he explained : ‘ I 'm going across for the first time since August 12 , 1961 . |
| 28 | She 'd explained that he 'd be staying away for the two nights , which he 'd never done before ; she only hoped she 'd explained it well enough . |
| 29 | Finally , former world champion Hans Neilsen will be riding again for the Oxford Cheetahs . |
| 30 | After the fourth session of the Hague peace conference on Sept. 26 , attended by the Foreign Ministers of all the republics , Lord Carrington said that the ceasefire seemed to be holding sufficiently for the conference to carry on and to accelerate its work . |