Example sentences of "he [verb] be [verb] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Gummer has used the guest house for every Tory conference since his student days and he told friends that he has been rewarded for his continued custom with the best room in the house . |
| 2 | Cummins was the West Indies ' leading wicket-taker in the World Cup and he has been selected for their squad to tour Australia this winter . |
| 3 | An iconoclast , Engel may find the job sedate after the hurly-burly of the general election , which he has been covering for his newspaper . |
| 4 | I feel that he has been waiting for me to get home so he can demonstrate this talent . |
| 5 | He has been waiting for his allowance since first putting in a claim for the new benefit on April 24 , more than six months ago . |
| 6 | Whatever anybody else says , whatever doubts fi experiences may come our way that we will never ever be judged for a for our sins , because Christ has taken that judgement on himself , he has been judged for us , the price has been paid . |
| 7 | Like Costner , David , 40 , has had to guard Whitney from hordes of obsessed fans in the four years he has been working for her . |
| 8 | The third party is now commonly known as an expert , usually because he has been chosen for his expertise about the issue between the parties . |
| 9 | So he 'd been looking for her . |
| 10 | Well driving and for erm you know he had plant hire , he 'd been driving for him and that . |
| 11 | The ‘ singular universal ’ , with its organicist and essentialist overtones whereby the part incarnates the whole , is thus the product of Sartre 's hesitation between the singular , which remains privileged as the existential basis of history , and the universal which as a Marxist he feels is required for its intelligibility and validation . |
| 12 | In theory he had been prepared for it all along , but that it should happen now , right now … |
| 13 | The man claimed he had been looking for his girlfriend when challenged by staff members . |
| 14 | There was nothing to spare unless he used the rupee that he had been given for his own food . |
| 15 | She marched down the stairs , and saw Jasper coming out of the sitting-room where , of course , he had been searching for her money . |
| 16 | He had been waiting for her to go to bed . |
| 17 | He had been waiting for her , it seemed . |
| 18 | He had been waiting for his visa for three months . |
| 19 | Bissett 's difficulty lay in the time he had been allocated for his paper on the theoretical dimensions of the device . |
| 20 | Poor old Ken Brown , frustrated beyond his tolerance level , slid from the pedestal he had been erecting for himself following early and rebellious years , when , during the Murphy Cup at St. Pierre , his driver and a wooden tee box converged at not inconsiderable speed . |
| 21 | He told me that he had been asking for them , to no avail . |
| 22 | Roman thanked the girl and asked her not to tell Mr Smith he had been asking for him . |
| 23 | He had been tried for his life at the Guildhall and tomorrow would hang . |
| 24 | For years he 's been looking for something to put his madness into . |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | Do n't you want to know why he 's been looking for you ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I know he 's been looking for you . |
| 28 | ‘ That is Sparky 's ninth goal of the season and he 's been scoring for us throughout , ’ Ferguson said . |
| 29 | Since then he 's been waiting for him higher up on various tracks . |
| 30 | 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 . |