Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb -s] be [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | While fashion magazines announce that longer skirts are in style , the princess has again appeared in the multi-coloured striped skirt she has been wearing for more than a year . |
| 2 | Her tone is soothing , her whispers slide like sighs , but gently she is uncovering the reproach she 's been hiding for days . |
| 3 | Bowie has already made a name for himself as an actor in a string of top movies , including The Hunger and The Man Who Fell To Earth , but this is the TV break he has been waiting for . |
| 4 | Because if you do , you can not fail to be deeply impressed by the very many ways in which high-fibre foods can help you to slim , and to come to the conclusion that the F-Plan is that major slimming breakthrough everyone has been seeking for so long . |
| 5 | Police in Lothian are increasingly concerned about the safety of a fifteen year old girl who 's been missing for ten days . |
| 6 | No wonder he 's been looking for an excuse to get rid of you . ’ |
| 7 | His twice broken kneecap still bears the scars — for Lawrence today was the test he 's been waiting for . |
| 8 | It 's the moment everyone 's been waiting for . |
| 9 | Their goodness has helped to make up the huge amount of goodness which has been accumulating for thousands of years and which we call the Created God . ’ |
| 10 | And she passed with flying colours She 's been driving for years apparently but she had to take a test . |
| 11 | In the 19 years she has been working for Durham County Council 's social services the number of rehabilitation officers for the visually impaired has dropped to one . |
| 12 | Mr Boris Yeltsin , the president of Russia , may have won the battle , but he has not yet won the war he has been fighting for more than half a year with the Congress of People 's Deputies . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | For years he 's been looking for something to put his madness into . |
| 15 | Like Costner , David , 40 , has had to guard Whitney from hordes of obsessed fans in the four years he has been working for her . |
| 16 | Authorities in Serbia again blocked a UN relief convoy which has been trying for days to reach the besieged Muslim enclave of Srebrenica . |
| 17 | A further example is when an organisation which has been trading for many decades finds itself increasingly out of touch with the market and the organisation 's internal culture and style is no longer appropriate to the markets it is trying to address . |
| 18 | ( a ) Children in need Section 20(1) requires every local authority : to provide accommodation for any child in need within their area who appears to them to require accommodation as a result of : ( a ) there being no person who has parental responsibility for him ; ( b ) his being lost or having been abandoned ; or ( c ) the person who has been caring for him being prevented ( whether or not permanently , and for whatever reason ) from providing him with suitable accommodation or care . |
| 19 | When Ellcock announced his retirement from first-class cricket at the age of 216 after Middlesex 's pre-season tour to Portugal , he was finally admitting defeat in a struggle to overcome back problems he has been fighting for much of his 10-year career . |
| 20 | Look out for our EXCLUSIVE PLAYABLE DEMO of the game everyone 's been waiting for , next month … |
| 21 | POLICE believe a body washed up on a beach in Kent might be that of a young Essex woman who has been missing for two months . |
| 22 | POLICE are concerned about the safety of a 20-year-old woman who has been missing for a week . |
| 23 | Today Cynthia Coles got the news she 's been waiting for . |
| 24 | The crowds at Constitution Dock cheered the owner who has been trying for 20 years to score a major success in this race . |
| 25 | I am having problems with my two foot Red-Tailed Catfish which has been fasting for two weeks . |
| 26 | But the rehabilitation centre which has been running for 21 years could be closed within the year . |
| 27 | ‘ There is a man next door who 's been looking for a job at least five years . |
| 28 | Police are growing increasingly worried about a mentally handicapped man who 's been missing for three days . |
| 29 | A farmer who 's been fighting for years to KEEP gypsies on his land has been given the go-ahead after a public inquiry . |
| 30 | He will himself present new data on the cohort of doctors he has been studying for the past 40 years , while his colleagues will review current knowledge on some of the many other topics that he has studied — including the effects on health of oral contraceptives , the parts played by radiation and by asbestos in various cancers , and patterns and trends in mortality . |