Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] for [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his own way , Ted had been building for this moment too . |
| 2 | Bernard and Laura escaped on to their sailing boat for much of the summer , a yacht they had been enjoying for some years now , and they pottered around Mykonos in Greece . |
| 3 | I 've been cooking for 7 years now , including my school , my cookery school . |
| 4 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |
| 5 | The union has managed to keep the strike going even though Siberian miners are pressing for political changes only , while miners in the Ukraine , where living conditions are particularly wretched , also want large wage rises . |
| 6 | The shop , at 25A Dundas Street , has been trading for 11 years now — in an earlier incarnation it was called Lavender Menace — and is a valued addition to Edinburgh 's gay and lesbian community . |
| 7 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 8 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
| 9 | We find it 's also useful back information , because they will be able to act on one client and has applications for proposal we are writing for another client later on so we can use as references refer to this information . |
| 10 | Register Office , handful of guests , parents optional , drink-up at couple 's house ( in which they 've been living for several years already ) . |
| 11 | In considering drama 's place in topic work , we have to start by thinking how we might dramatise the topic ; and that means seeking out human dilemmas , looking for the moments of change in a situation , or the moments when change might be possible ; we 're looking for those moments when people make choices . |
| 12 | I says I 've already told you about it , she says yeah I know she says but you 're going for some petrol tonight , I just wondered if you were coming up for an hour tonight . |
| 13 | We , the readers of the narrative , have been waiting for this moment ever since the concluding words of the book of Numbers : ‘ These are the commandments and the ordinances which the Lord commanded by Moses to the people of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho . ’ |
| 14 | They had been waiting for high water so that they could sail alongside in a civilised manner . |
| 15 | Fireworks are what youngsters are waiting for all year round when they remember , remember the fifth of November . |
| 16 | The schools , which cater for boys aged from 11 to 14 , have been going for five years now and are organised by Robbie Walker , Tottenham 's representative in Northern Ireland . |
| 17 | Concern has been growing for some time now , voiced not only by the media but also by some high-powered academics , ex-civil servants and former senior government statisticians , that official information which should be wholly objective is being distorted , suppressed or otherwise interfered with to serve the political ends of the government . |
| 18 | ‘ In Basildon only 32 out of 8,000 homes were sold and in Scotland where it has been running for two years only 223 out of 6,000 tenants have bought houses . |
| 19 | Erm if he 's another easy one is if he 's been travelling for one hour how far has he gone ? |
| 20 | Now we 've got three points there it 's probably they they give you four here so we 'll do another one erm , when he 's been travelling for five hours how far 's he gone ? |
| 21 | Well of course I 've been saying for some time now , for some time , and I want to underline that , and I hope the government are listening that we 've had twenty thousand troops on our streets , we 've twelve thousand armed policemen on our streets , we have the strictest security laws in Western Europe , and none of these things have solved our problem . |
| 22 | I think I 'm making my point , I have been saying for some time now that given the fact that all that security has n't produced the results , the logic of that is dialogue , and when I see the opportunity as I saw it , of dialogue , direct dialogue with Mr Addams that could lead to a total cessation of this violence , I felt it was my duty to do so . |
| 23 | If the tenant accepts that the property may be redeveloped he will probably wish to be looking for alternative accommodation sooner rather than later , and he will wish to move in and terminate his liability under his existing lease as soon as he finds it . |
| 24 | These hoops can be jumped through quickly if all parties cooperate , but the point is that some potential candidates for the 1990 Edinburgh course will already be looking for possible courses early in 1989 . |
| 25 | And we were rather thinking that might be looking for another job very soon . |
| 26 | I 'd like to address the reasons why I will be voting for this motion today . |
| 27 | Social services bring other partially sighted people to his nursery to show how life can be fulfilling for blind people even in the most visual of surroundings . |
| 28 | In Britain there was a significant reduction in the number of employees eligible for employment protection , so that to be within the terms of the Employment Protection Act , they had to be working for two years instead of , as previously , six months . |
| 29 | She has been childminding for eight years now and has gained an extremely good reputation . |
| 30 | They want a meeting , they intimate , and are boarding for that purpose now . |