Example sentences of "been [v-ing] about for " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has been hanging about for a long , long time while I 've been on this and these people and they 're very special people I 've got this sword of hanging over my head . |
| 2 | ‘ But it is such a useful box , ’ she said , ‘ I have been looking about for one like it . |
| 3 | No-one 's wanted to have a punt and we 've been scrambling about for the odd winner . |
| 4 | You 've been mooning about for a few weeks , ’ she chuckled , ruefully . |
| 5 | He recalls the efforts he made to acquire a p-38 : ‘ A Lightning that I had been pondering about for some time was owned by a chap called Merril Wayne , who ran an airline called Wayne Airlines up in Anchorage , Alaska . |
| 6 | The village is fascinating ; the sort of place the press have been raving about for the past four years when they talk about ‘ unspoilt Turkey ’ . |
| 7 | There will also be some kind of performance boost for DB2 — either more microcode or conceivably the dedicated DB2 processor that IBM has been speculating about for 10 years now . |
| 8 | Barclays Bank in Britain has been casting about for months for a chief executive . |
| 9 | Mistakenly , he had agreed to let Brompton-Smiley travel with him in the Rolls and discuss the matter of some urgency he had been whining about for the last two days . |