Example sentences of "been [v-ing] for [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gallery ‘ gelbe MUSIK ’ has been catering for the specialists and the curious for ten years and celebrates its anniversary this spring . |
| 2 | As an amateur jockey Pip has had eight National hunt wins this season and had been challenging for the Ladies Championship . |
| 3 | He must have been looking for the keys . |
| 4 | In some sense Angela may have been paying for the assets — they had assets valued at £600,000 then , most of it in the lease on the building . |
| 5 | Due to the fact that his marriage had been heading for the rocks ? |
| 6 | The gunman is believed to have been waiting for the women and chidren to come out of the shop . |
| 7 | But most of us have been waiting for the results of the Concorde trial . ’ |
| 8 | Well , we 've been waiting for the protractors , we have n't been |
| 9 | A left-wing party outside government had , for some time , been calling for the workers to seize factories and , when they found themselves shut out by the closing of firms by management in the Bosses ' strike , the workers were prompted to action They seized firms and , having taken them over , set up a cordón in the area . |
| 10 | The territorial assembly has been calling for the tests to stop until proper health studies are done . |
| 11 | The students have been preparing for the assessments using open learning materials developed by Telford College . |
| 12 | But the Cossacks had been fighting for the Germans and the British Army 's main concern in Austria in May 1945 was to comply with the Yalta agreement ordering repatriation so that the Russians would honour a promise to return British prisoners of war . |
| 13 | We in the PAC have not been fighting for the crumbs from the master 's table . ’ |
| 14 | Yet it was just here that friction and innovation entered , for since the eleventh century church theorists — theologians and particularly canon lawyers — and successive popes had been claiming for the clergy immunities and privileges quite distinct from lay expectations . |
| 15 | They 've been digging for the chemicals , been tortured and crucified , again and again . |
| 16 | He had been working for the Cyrenians at an annex to the Simon House Hostel for the Homeless in Rectory Road Oxford . |