Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Worse , Riley had been chiding him for not providing a string of exclusive MacQuillan stories but the ones he had written were being held over until they were out of date or appeared elsewhere . |
| 2 | He had been seeing her for over a year now and yesterday she popped the big question . |
| 3 | I 've been seeing her for three years . ’ |
| 4 | I 've been seeing her for 3 and a half years . |
| 5 | Margaret had been seeing him for nearly a year and Maura had the feeling that they were going to get married . |
| 6 | Been seeing him for years . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been eating it for years but it 's weird . |
| 8 | Try looking at people , objects and places as if you are seeing them for the first time without being influenced by what you have known about them in the past . |
| 9 | For me one of the greatest gifts is the ability to look at things as if you are seeing them for the first time . |
| 10 | Let me now assume that you are being considered by a prospective principal and are seeing him for the first time . |
| 11 | Since we are using it for choices of ends , we can not treat the awareness it prescribes simply as a universal means to our ends whatever they may be , which is what the admonition suggests in ordinary discourse ( with the implication ‘ If you do n't you 'll suffer for it ’ ) . |
| 12 | ‘ I believe passionately in the future of this industry but what chance have we got when an avaricious few are using it for their own crazy purposes ? ’ |
| 13 | They 've been building it for God knows how long , cancelling trains , people ca n't get on or off the platforms . |
| 14 | She explained that Lazaris came through to her via a medium who went into a trance , and had been helping her for the previous eight years . |
| 15 | Obviously she will often clash with the adults who are grooming her for life . |
| 16 | She felt smugly satisfied that she had not fed his ego by asking what he did in London , or any of the other dozen or so questions it looked as if he had been bracing himself for . |
| 17 | Oh he said well I have n't been handling it for six weeks I said . |
| 18 | As he glanced up at her , his eyes shuttered , she found herself asking another question that had been puzzling her for a while . |
| 19 | Sitting in her window , she commanded a good view of the vicarage garden and of the ‘ object ’ whose identity had been puzzling her for some days now . |
| 20 | Cheapies are fine — I have been using them for years ! |
| 21 | Women on the continent have been using them for years and they 're gradually becoming available in this country . |
| 22 | You 're only , I think you 're only supposed to use them for a , a few months , I 've been using them for about three years . |
| 23 | We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers . |
| 24 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 25 | I have been using it for some years and encourage my junior staff to do the same . |
| 26 | So to find out how much you 've used , you 've got to multiply it by how long you 've been using it for . |
| 27 | funny , cos sulfasala I 've been s I 've certainly been using it for years and years and years with different folk fo er for something completely different . |
| 28 | All the ones , the old secretaries who 've been using it for years think it 's absolutely wonderful . |
| 29 | ‘ That bloody bird has been annoying me for days . ’ |
| 30 | OVER THERE , but thankfully not expected here in the near future : US TV audiences are bracing themselves for Roseanne : the cartoon , and an animated series featuring New Kids On The Block … |