Example sentences of "he [verb] [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The the only job which I told Neil I do not expect him to take is working for waste disposal because he did that , this time last year and before he started he was full of big talk about you make a lot of money and you get a lot of tips at Christmas he found that you do not make a lot of money and you do not get generous tips at Christmas |
| 2 | It is clear that he has been speaking for some time . |
| 3 | He has been trying for three years and he said today : ‘ Maybe it is because , God knows , I 've had some leg problems and I just can not climb those steps that easily , ’ he joked . |
| 4 | The thing is , he has been using for such a long time . |
| 5 | Although he has been looking for the little creep to beat him up for having steered him wrong , he realises that it is better to be with someone , even someone like Ratso , than to be alone . |
| 6 | He has been looking for pollen , the other standby of people who study ancient plants . |
| 7 | He has been writing for some time , starting with horror , and has more recently turned to the psychological thriller . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , he has been caddying for Harley in Europe , and he did win one tournament and finished equal second in the other . |
| 9 | It was his first medal in the competition , which he has been entering for five years — his previous best placing was ninth in 1990 . |
| 10 | ‘ He has been calling for a … ’ he glanced importantly at his notebook ‘ … |
| 11 | Thus , a Keeper of Italian Painting would have responsibility for the Italian drawings , thereby not only linking their administration and scholarly maintenance but also bringing drawing into the direct relationship with painting which Clifford says he has been advocating for many years . |
| 12 | The trouble with the right hon. Gentleman is that he has been searching for a way to do nothing about this problem . |
| 13 | When Ellcock announced his retirement from first-class cricket at the age of 216 after Middlesex 's pre-season tour to Portugal , he was finally admitting defeat in a struggle to overcome back problems he has been fighting for much of his 10-year career . |
| 14 | Mr Boris Yeltsin , the president of Russia , may have won the battle , but he has not yet won the war he has been fighting for more than half a year with the Congress of People 's Deputies . |
| 15 | An iconoclast , Engel may find the job sedate after the hurly-burly of the general election , which he has been covering for his newspaper . |
| 16 | A survey of the career of Robert Ryman , the American artist noted for the white paintings which he has been making for nearly forty years , is the most significant exhibition of contemporary art to be taking place in London this spring . |
| 17 | Bowie has already made a name for himself as an actor in a string of top movies , including The Hunger and The Man Who Fell To Earth , but this is the TV break he has been waiting for . |
| 18 | He has been waiting for the right offer for some time after turning down an approach from Italian club Pisa several seasons ago . |
| 19 | I feel that he has been waiting for me to get home so he can demonstrate this talent . |
| 20 | He has been waiting for his allowance since first putting in a claim for the new benefit on April 24 , more than six months ago . |
| 21 | By the exhausted mechanical sound of it he has been sobbing for a long time . |
| 22 | He will himself present new data on the cohort of doctors he has been studying for the past 40 years , while his colleagues will review current knowledge on some of the many other topics that he has studied — including the effects on health of oral contraceptives , the parts played by radiation and by asbestos in various cancers , and patterns and trends in mortality . |
| 23 | Although he has had his feet under the desk only since January , he has been preparing for the job since last summer by meeting researchers and officials , visiting institutes abroad and drawing up an initial draft of his plans . |
| 24 | No individual can sell or receive commission on investment business , unless he has been working for that same Company for at least five continuous years . |
| 25 | Like Costner , David , 40 , has had to guard Whitney from hordes of obsessed fans in the four years he has been working for her . |
| 26 | In a conventional world , the Chancellor would simply roll his forecasts forward as he has been doing for the past two years now . |
| 27 | And he had to go and train somewhere down south , but he 's got a he , apparently he 'd been trying for a year and he 's got to Accrington . |
| 28 | It was in the second of the rooms behind a damp stack of spare mattresses that he found what he 'd been hoping for . |
| 29 | He 'd been hoping for windows , and a view over the bay or the town . |
| 30 | He 'd been looking for that for ages . |