Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] for an " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many years AI has been calling for an independent judicial inquiry to investigate the pattern of disputed killings by security forces in Northern Ireland in order to help prevent unlawful killings . |
| 2 | From the statement " It has been raining for an hour in Chicago " , for example , we are able to infer , using our knowledge of the real world , that the streets of Chicago are wet . |
| 3 | Touche Ross has been looking for an acquisition to accelerate the growth of its information technology business for some eighteen months . |
| 4 | But the Shelby County Commission has been pressing for an investigation since the 1991 book The Death of Elvis : What Really Happened , quoted doctors as saying Presley died of a drug overdose . |
| 5 | Is the Chancellor aware that not so long ago I met a chap in Blackpool who said to me , ’ When you see that Chancellor of the Duchy , tell him that I want to give him a piece of my mind : not only is the poll tax three times higher than the rates , but I have lost my job , my wife has been waiting for an operation for two years , my daughter has lost her maternity grant through this Tory Government and my son has lost his income support — so when you see the chairman of the Tory party , will you tell him that I want to meet him to discuss this matter at the top of the Blackpool Tower ? ’ |
| 6 | For more than 2 years , Richard Goodsell , from Henley , has been waiting for an operation on an arthritic finger . |
| 7 | She has been walking for an hour a day for more than a year , but very slowly . |
| 8 | If we 'd been looking for an easy acquaintance with nature , we would have chosen a different landscape : something lusher and more intricate , not this bleak and famished hillside on the Atlantic 's edge . |
| 9 | Equally the use of ebony seemed a good choice ; I 'd been looking for an excuse to make something in ebony for ages , anyway ! |
| 10 | Nobody left the queue : they were n't going to lose their place , they 'd been queueing for an hour . |
| 11 | At this time of the evening they 'd have been drinking for an hour . |
| 12 | He seemed to have been moving for an immeasurable time . |
| 13 | It might have been a delayed reaction to the drugs I had been taking for an operation I 'd recently had on my foot , but this seemed unlikely . |
| 14 | The ruling Liberal Democratic Party had been looking for an excuse to reward its friends in the building industry for their financial support . |
| 15 | He was inclined to believe he had been looking for an excuse to ring her , which was foolish because he did not need an excuse . |
| 16 | The alliance is a blow to the ruling Parti Socialiste of President François Mitterrand , which had been hoping for an electoral alliance with the Green parties . |
| 17 | I suspected that he was hoping to hear that the senator had been arranging for an illicit love affair on board Wavebreaker . |
| 18 | The young man admitted in due course , when we had been driving for an hour , that he did not know the way and was totally lost . |
| 19 | Tim , from Great Sankey , was a dedicated fan of the club and had been shopping for an Everton strip on the day of the Bridge Street bombing . |
| 20 | He put aside being lonely for a moment , and realized that hunger had been waiting for an opportunity to make-itself felt . |
| 21 | Maurin , who had been longing for an excuse to escape , said he would go himself to attend to it and made for the door . |
| 22 | She had been meaning for an age to get a dimmer fitted . |
| 23 | As soon as her breasts were free of their thin cotton restraint , he licked the soft , warm flesh , as if the taste of her was something he had been craving for an eternity . |
| 24 | MPs had been pressing for an enquiry following the publication of a damning report on the state of school discipline by the Professional Association of Teachers in 1987 , which was given prominent coverage in the press . |
| 25 | That is erm whenever people look for an analysis of something , here I 've been looking for an analysis of individuation , there 's a tendency to consider candidate analyses one by one , singulatum . |
| 26 | They 've been calling for an alternative route to the A 421 since World War Two . |
| 27 | For years , American X-ray astronomers have been pushing for an Advanced X-ray Astrophysics facility ( AXAF ) which would have better sensitivity and resolution of detail , than all other X-ray telescopes presently planned . |
| 28 | Because of its concerns about the consultants ' figures , convention officials have been pressing for an urgent meeting of a joint Scottish Office-COSLA working party on finance since early February but that has not taken place . |
| 29 | No wonder he 's been looking for an excuse to get rid of you . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I bet he 's been dying for an audience , ’ Dalziel said to Pascoe . |