Example sentences of "be [v-ing] for [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have been looking for her for three weeks . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've been looking for you for ages , ’ he said . |
| 3 | We 've been looking for you for some months . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been looking for you for days , now , ’ he said . |
| 5 | I 've been looking for you for years , but I only knew the name that she used to call you — Prince Charming . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been looking for you for years — Prince Charming . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | You have been looking for it for eight years . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
| 11 | ‘ Hullo , Pranger , I 've been waiting for you for years . ’ |
| 12 | " I 've been waiting for you for six hours . |
| 13 | We 've all been waiting for you for hours . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been waiting for you for the past three hours , pacing the corridors , wearing out the carpet . |
| 15 | We must , surely , eventually get to recovery , but we have been waiting for it for a long time . |
| 16 | They 'll let me in. — I 've been doing for her for years . ’ |
| 17 | Well Dennis er Roger 's been doing for it for Leeds North West have n't you ? |
| 18 | ‘ The chief ‘ s been asking for you for some time , Mr Wycliffe . ’ |
| 19 | Now I 'm looking for something for Penny , which is n't very expensive but nice , you know . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | So that one really is telling a story , commemorating something in Danish history , when they were fighting for their for their freedom . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | No-one 's asking for owt for nowt , I 'd be happy to work instead of getting benefits . |
| 26 | 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 ? |
| 27 | Mr Davidson 's father , Robert Snr , said Mrs Holmes had been working for him for the last eight years . |
| 28 | And we and then we had been working for him for about ten or eleven years on this contract that he had for us . |
| 29 | Well obviously the sad reality of the thing does n't come home to , to our countrymen and a man comes up last week and tells me that he 's been paid off by the Daily Record he 's been working for them for thirty five years and he asked what how much pension will he have and says that he 's getting four years pension . |
| 30 | He 's been working for it for years . |