Example sentences of "be [v-ing] for [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must have been walking for nearly an hour , he thought . |
| 2 | I had been walking for only a few minutes when I was surprised to see Miss Stapleton sitting on a rock ahead of me . |
| 3 | Specialised studies of sex as a social experience have been appearing for almost a hundred years , since at least the time of the great pioneering sexologists and anthropologists of the late nineteenth century ; and what appeared then were works which have been profoundly influential , not only in describing but in constructing and delineating the areas to be discussed . |
| 4 | I think there 's less risk of you being caught then — Lee 's and your mother 's people are looking for either a single man and woman or two unrelated young people ; it seems as if they think it 's inconceivable that you should have remained together . |
| 5 | Detective Chief Superintendent Alan Shannon , who is heading the investigation , said : ‘ We are looking for either a youth or a young man . |
| 6 | The narrow gauge line 's diesel locomotive and two former man-rider carriages have been operating for almost a year at a small extra charge to visitors . |
| 7 | WRECS , which has been operating for almost a decade , now boasts a membership of more than 40 who attended the evening of festive fun at the Pavilion Club , Barlaston , complete with refreshments and cabaret . |
| 8 | The defendant 's fourth sub-head of complaint was that the judge did this when the jury had been deliberating for only an hour , citing Reg. v. McKenna [ 1960 ] 1 Q.B . |
| 9 | Joking apart Kevin has been training for nearly a year . |
| 10 | If it 's sultry shades you 're looking for then the Preludes collection from Helena Rubenstein is one to try . |
| 11 | His people , the Navaho , had been waiting for nearly a hundred and fifty years . |
| 12 | A lone man at nearly midnight , wearing a thin jacket in a storm that had been blowing for over an hour … |
| 13 | The independent Spanish magazine Piragüismo de las Autonomías has been running for about a year now . |
| 14 | Hayes Machine Knitting Club has been running for quite a few years now and welcomes new members . |
| 15 | So I think I 'm asking for just a bit more , more talks and where there is a , a home or homes in a rural area that may be the only home in that area , so it is available to local people that Social Services come in and there in an understanding in planning authorities first and now the actual criteria we 're working on because most local people will think that home is for local people . |
| 16 | NICOLA Delacour ( 18 ) , from Newtownards used to work in a building society but has now been modelling for nearly a year . |
| 17 | However they put aside their competitiveness ( the Caledonian and Balmoral in Edinburgh , for example , are fighting for exactly the same guests ) because they know that it is only by working together , as one body , that they will attract visitors to Scotland in the first place . |
| 18 | they were going for about a hundred thousand . |
| 19 | And although the guys knew each other pretty well , they did n't know they were each coming to me , and they also did n't know they were asking for essentially the same mods ! |
| 20 | Ford is budgeting for only a slight improvement on last year 's 1.6m market and has abandoned hopes of sales reaching 1.74m , while Peugeot Talbot is projecting a standstill . |
| 21 | The allocation of work by tasks , although an efficient way of ensuring that work is completed , is unsatisfying for both the nurse and the patient . |
| 22 | Mr Bryan Gould , the party 's environment spokesman , has already announced that he is standing for both the leadership and deputy leadership . |
| 23 | Full employment , competition between employers for labour and high levels of labour turnover might mean that many people are working for only a short time in any particular job . |
| 24 | It revealed in September that it was looking for either an outright buyer or a substantial injection of capital for a minority stake in order to expand the publication . |
| 25 | No no no it 's a well taken goal and and that 's that 's what he was looking for just a little touch on . |
| 26 | Doubt it cos it was convalescing for quite a while . |
| 27 | We was dabbling for about a year then … . |