Example sentences of "'s be [v-ing] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There is a man next door who 's been looking for a job at least five years . |
| 2 | No wonder he 's been looking for an excuse to get rid of you . ’ |
| 3 | Listen , Bill — the boy 's been training for a few weeks , and it 's time he did some work . |
| 4 | Ottawa , Canada-based 4GL software supplier Cognos Inc is about to consummate the moves into Unix and distributed computing it 's been flagging for a year , with the planned Six By Six launch of six products on six Unix platforms in August . |
| 5 | Well erm I think so , I mean they had a great side under Bill Beaumont 's leadership and it 's been promising for a couple of years with England , and today they actually came through with the goods erm a bit of an anti-climax last year at erm at Murrayfield . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | " It 's been raining for a week . " |
| 8 | a standard Anglepoise lamp er which it 's been going for a number of years , you can get it in about six different colours to match different designs of , er put colour into your room , now if somebody was spending a lot of time sitting knitting and has to look at the knitting or has to look at the pattern then er a good strong light which wo n't get in their eyes but goes straight on to what , whatever they 're doing , is by far the best thing for them , er but they say oh I do n't like it , it 's a bit angular is n't it , erm , modern sort of thing , er but because it 's angular it does n't mean to say it 's not gon na fit into the room it 's the right thing for it , er for the person doing that work . |
| 9 | ‘ He 's been running for a bookie again , Sarah . |
| 10 | Can I just draw people 's attention to the very last point which was made in case any one sending large sums of cash through the post office , erm , it , it 's been running for a long time |
| 11 | It 's not just that Mr Parnham knows the count , it 's an idea the old boy 's been floating for a while , so he tells me . |
| 12 | A council that 's been paying for a fourteen-year-old criminal to stay in Spain has been criticised in court . |
| 13 | ‘ I bet he 's been dying for an audience , ’ Dalziel said to Pascoe . |
| 14 | She 's been missing for a week , was going to marry a rising Minister , successful career , everything coming up roses . |
| 15 | It 's been happening for a few days , but I 've only just realised what it is … |
| 16 | you know , that G P's that 's been practising for a long number of years you know er , elderly G P's are probably not as up-to-date on these kind of things as they should be . |
| 17 | For two years Kelly 's been waiting for a heart and lung transplant , the only cure for her condition . |
| 18 | Rainbow 's been waiting for an opportunity to nudge the conversation round to Stamford Hill . |