Example sentences of "[verb] be [verb] [pron] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now a perfectly good internal sprinkler system has been developed which for £500,000 could be fitted to an aircraft and would put fires out within 10 seconds . |
| 2 | ‘ That bloody bird has been annoying me for days . ’ |
| 3 | He labours scornfully for this Simon Giles , faintly comforted by a corner in Classical studies which has been granted him for reasons to do with the firm 's image . |
| 4 | The real enthusiast has been doing it for years . |
| 5 | Richard Long has been doing it for years in his site-related stone works — three of which , based on materials gathered in the states of New York and New Jersey — can be seen until 13 March at 65 Thompson St. And surely there is a kind of nostalgie de la boue in the drawings he makes using ordinary mud as the medium . |
| 6 | Old body disposer Pugh 's nephew Duncan has been begging me for months to let him play and things have got so desperate I have no choice but to take him on . |
| 7 | John suggests £10 — £15 has been allowed me for costumes . ’ |
| 8 | They were soon strolling with me round the house as if they 'd been expecting me for weeks . |
| 9 | She deserved it , she 'd been tormenting me for weeks , calling me Comic Stripper because I told better jokes than she did . |
| 10 | Eventually it was he who told her mother when she was about eight months pregnant : " We 'd been planning it for ages to tell them but we had n't had the nerve to get round to it . |
| 11 | The least we can do is dress you for effect . |
| 12 | He must have been saving it for months . |
| 13 | Undertaken sensitively and carefully by an experienced operator in controlled circumstances , regression therapy should be a beneficial and restorative experience for the subject , enabling him to be rid of a serious problem that may have been troubling him for years and indeed possibly ruining his life . |
| 14 | ‘ What I mean is do you for instance know the three-times table ? ’ |
| 15 | Then came news of more freebies , rumours of worse stories to come , and Tory ministers and MPs realised what some had been telling them for weeks . |
| 16 | Claudia wanted to laugh out loud — that was what she had been telling him for days , but under the joy she was aware of fear making itself known . |
| 17 | ROSS STRUDWICK had been telling us for weeks : the London Crusaders can become big-time . |
| 18 | ‘ I found as the charred remains came to light that one of their employees , who had left the firm last year , had been embezzling them for years and had set fire to the premises so that no trace could be found of his dirty work . |
| 19 | Oh , but this is the Niersteiner , the last bottle , and it would n't go very well with beef ’ He had been saving it for Sophia 's birthday . |
| 20 | The Achilles ' tendon which had been bothering him for weeks finally gave out amid a sympathetic cheer and a great forward ambled to the sideline and out of the match with an hour gone . |
| 21 | Well the ordinary private hire , there 's so many of them , I mean his dad had been doing it for years but there 's so many started up . |
| 22 | Last night , she had taken one of the wolfdogs that had been following her for weeks . |
| 23 | Christine had been planning hers for weeks . |
| 24 | If the BBC had been planning it for years , it could not have had more authority ’ . |
| 25 | She had been planning it for months now , and it was vitally important . |
| 26 | Dmitri had been checking it for misprints and left it to get messed up like this . |
| 27 | Rain met people who had been avoiding her for months and others she had been dodging . |
| 28 | There were mill-owners in Bradford and Leeds who had been begging her for years to leave Old Ashfield and go to live with them in their fine houses . |
| 29 | We 've been watching them for weeks . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been ringing you for days . |