Example sentences of "he 's [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't you want to know why he 's been looking for you ? ’ |
| 2 | For years he 's been looking for something to put his madness into . |
| 3 | No wonder he 's been looking for an excuse to get rid of you . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I know he 's been looking for you . |
| 5 | Bob Sillitoe says that since he came back from Kilimanjaro he 's been looking for something else … another challenge … the climbing has given his son a great sense of confidence |
| 6 | It was , after all , a throat infection and he 's been training for the past week . ’ |
| 7 | Now with this one the one we 've just done you do n't really know how far to go I mean I might have been going to ask erm how long has he been travelling if he 's been riding for a thousand hours . |
| 8 | He 's just joined the Squadron but he 's been flying for two years . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ That is Sparky 's ninth goal of the season and he 's been scoring for us throughout , ’ Ferguson said . |
| 10 | Since then he 's been waiting for him higher up on various tracks . |
| 11 | He told Husband he 'd have to consult with the rest of the private Office and maybe even the PM before he could agree to them interrogating you ; he may actually be doing that , for all I know , though I think it 's more likely he 's been waiting for his temper to cool before he briefs you . |
| 12 | He 's been waiting for the past half-hour . ’ |
| 13 | His twice broken kneecap still bears the scars — for Lawrence today was the test he 's been waiting for . |
| 14 | He 's been waiting for you to come off , ai n't I Yun ? |
| 15 | ‘ I bet he 's been dying for an audience , ’ Dalziel said to Pascoe . |
| 16 | ‘ He 's been asking for you . ’ |
| 17 | Since his recovery , he 's been running for the Cancer Research Campaign . |
| 18 | Since his recovery , he 's been running for the Cancer Research Campaign . |
| 19 | ‘ He 's been running for a bookie again , Sarah . |
| 20 | Everyone thought Pratesi was the buyer because he 's been talking for years about building a bigger place , rearing his own pigs and growing his own feed . |
| 21 | He 's been going for three hours . |
| 22 | Chairman , I 've listened with erm interest to Professor erm weasel words explaining that he did n't mean what he 's been saying for the past three years and trying to explain away what he 's effectively and he might as well admit it a complete volte face worse than that his agreement to an arrangement which he knows is second best . |
| 23 | So I should n't think he 's been driving for some time and |
| 24 | He 's been working for it for years . |
| 25 | The Tree has some pretty weird ideas about religion ; he might just swallow the idea he 's been working for the devil all this time . |
| 26 | ‘ He 's been working for you ? ’ |
| 27 | Well obviously the sad reality of the thing does n't come home to , to our countrymen and a man comes up last week and tells me that he 's been paid off by the Daily Record he 's been working for them for thirty five years and he asked what how much pension will he have and says that he 's getting four years pension . |
| 28 | No but I mean , I do n't mean wh I do n't mean where he 's been working for the corporation , I mean before when he 's had these various jobs and they 've finished and he 's had , you know , the job 's finished and they 've had to go somewhere . |
| 29 | The distance he 's travelled is equal to sixty miles per hour times the number of hours , he 's been travelling for okay ? |
| 30 | Up there is how far away from home he is in miles along there is the time he 's been travelling for . |