Example sentences of "have [pers pn] be [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has she been bleeding for a two week period ? |
| 2 | And now you can ask I can sort of ask you questions on it like if he 's been travelling for let's say If he 's if he 's covered sixty miles how long has he been riding for ? |
| 3 | Okay erm If he 's done two hundred miles , how long has he been riding for ? |
| 4 | Has he been working for a long time ? |
| 5 | What had she been watching for ? |
| 6 | Get some movement out there we had a young , a young lady who er she name and she 's up front in the cabinet you know every opportunity she had she was looking for round the room , but not sort of in the round the outside all the time and it 's just that she wanted to be with a group of people all the time . |
| 7 | But the more tapes I do and when I 've she 's coming for it eleven o'clock next Friday . |
| 8 | ‘ Come on , what 've you been lookin' for ? ’ |
| 9 | So when we went to Stylus Records and Telstar you know they were more than than happy to have because they seemed but I think that at at the start had we been looking for somebody here to take us over probably it would never have happened . |
| 10 | What had they been looking for ? |
| 11 | Had he been hoping for Doreen to arrive and say she was no longer interested in the large Hastings home and that she 'd be willing to live anywhere with him — even to work beside him out in the wilderness ? |
| 12 | In 1984 opinion polls showed that Ronald Reagan would have been decisively defeated had he been running for re-election in Britain . |
| 13 | It seems to me that while you work initially for local councils and local councillors who should , obviously , be the people who have the power and the say , and far be it from me to recommend that you ignore or even threaten to undermine the democratic process , however imperfect it it it may it may be , you have you are working for that local council . |
| 14 | How long have you been looking for work ? |
| 15 | ‘ How long have you been searching for me ? ’ |
| 16 | Now , what have you been doing for a whole month ? ’ |
| 17 | you work for erm Law Centre , erm , how long have you been working for the Law Centre ? |
| 18 | How long have you been waiting for this car , a while have n't you Spen ? |
| 19 | Just think , what have we been looking for ? |