Example sentences of "we [verb] [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , so what were doing is were , we hope were waiting for a new prisoner to be allocated to us , erm , and perhaps we could , perhaps we could , perhaps we can write and remind you think , think we should do that ? |
| 2 | I do n't we got about three , three thirty in the morning , both of them went out to er canal somewhere up Dulgate , past Dulgate we set up and we 'd we 'd been fishing for about two and half hours it 's aba about six thirty in the morning this old farmer comes up says er aye , aye lads , he said er I would n't bother it , they drained this area of the canal a few months ago ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I think that if we 'd been looking for some rather more er refined instruments of taxation , I nearly said torture , er from the continent then we might have looked er and found some rather better means of getting local money in to finance local government . |
| 5 | We 'd been shagging for about a month . |
| 6 | I knew that I always overestimated the time these outings took , but I was certain that we 'd been going for over two hours , and still we were crashing on . |
| 7 | ‘ But I am a bit disappointed that while we 've been appealing for new directors nobody from the town has come forward . ’ |
| 8 | We 've been trying for some time to employ as many players as possible during the winter , and this sponsorship means that it should be possible to take the worry of finding winter employment away from virtually all of them . |
| 9 | ‘ We 've been struggling for years . |
| 10 | Towards which we 've been striving for weeks . |
| 11 | The things they are being tested for are all those we 've been training for up until this time . |
| 12 | We 've been looking for McCloy to lead us to his hired assassin . |
| 13 | We 've been looking for this car as part of a murder investigation . |
| 14 | ‘ We 've been looking for you for ages , ’ he said . |
| 15 | We 've been looking for someone who can cope with the 24-hours-a-day rock ‘ n ’ roll lifestyle . |
| 16 | ‘ The editor we 've been looking for will also have to be able to cope with Alice Cooper dropping into our offices , plus other heavy metal groups who 've been into the heavy metal jewellery shop , the Great Frog which is in Carnaby Street beneath our offices . |
| 17 | " We 've been looking for you , " said Hazel . |
| 18 | The idea that you might be the person we 've been looking for came after I 'd met you . ’ |
| 19 | We 've been looking for you for some months . |
| 20 | He says , here 's something , he says , we , we 've been looking for for years and here 's me stumbling on it accidentally . |
| 21 | We 've been looking for you everywhere for the past hour ! |
| 22 | ‘ We 've been looking for you these five days , and never a sign . |
| 23 | Something that we 've been looking for for months and months ! |
| 24 | Driving for cash er well an indication of how strongly we , we 've been driving for cash is that er the reduction i in er operating cash flow is less than the reduction in profit . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's what we 've been working for all season , ’ said the delighted Whitham , who now has his sights set on the international scene for 1994 , either in Superbikes or the 500cc Grand Prix series . |
| 26 | Because we 've been talking for a while so had time for it to evaporate . |
| 27 | We 've been talking for hours . |
| 28 | We 've been talking for about fifteen minutes . |
| 29 | Well we 've been planning for it for something like eleven months , with a small planning team , but at its height , just before Conference , there were a total of seventy officers involved . |
| 30 | It shows what we 've been saying for a long time , how fragile the markets in this recycling are , and I still stick to what I 've thought all along , that marketing comes first and making the product comes second . |