Example sentences of "[vb base] be [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , so what were doing is were , we hope were waiting for a new prisoner to be allocated to us , erm , and perhaps we could , perhaps we could , perhaps we can write and remind you think , think we should do that ? |
| 2 | The reason that his brush has stroked not a lot on these pristine pages of late is twofold : firstly , he 's been very busy providing illustrations for the soon-to-be-seen N-Force magazine ( which Europress are launching for Nintendo fans = both of them ! ) , and he 's been sunning himself on the golden shores of beautiful Bali for the past three weeks ! |
| 3 | Finance are asking for your overseas ' expenses for Greece … |
| 4 | It is effectively in planning terms a change of use from whatever to industry or business that I find is providing for . |
| 5 | Michael had originally intended to run Royal Ballerina in the Prix Vermeille at Longchamp the day after the St Leger and now Kauntze is hoping for dry conditions at Doncaster for what he regards as an easier race . |
| 6 | Michael had originally intended to run Royal Ballerina in the Prix Vermeille at Longchamp the day after the St Leger and now Kauntze is hoping for dry conditions at Doncaster for what he regards as an easier race . |
| 7 | Chuck 's waiting for me . |
| 8 | But we do n't as a regular thing do much as far as the public is concerned but what we do do is training for tropical foresters , and during the summer vac . |
| 9 | by people people who come are coming for interviews |
| 10 | We 've been looking for McCloy to lead us to his hired assassin . |
| 11 | We 've been looking for this car as part of a murder investigation . |
| 12 | ‘ We 've been looking for you for ages , ’ he said . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been looking for you everywhere . |
| 14 | I 've been looking for you everywhere . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been looking for you everywhere , ’ he said breathlessly . |
| 16 | We 've been looking for someone who can cope with the 24-hours-a-day rock ‘ n ’ roll lifestyle . |
| 17 | ‘ The editor we 've been looking for will also have to be able to cope with Alice Cooper dropping into our offices , plus other heavy metal groups who 've been into the heavy metal jewellery shop , the Great Frog which is in Carnaby Street beneath our offices . |
| 18 | Smith said : ‘ I 've been looking for someone to play wide on the right . |
| 19 | Demelza , five , of Oakworth , West Yorks , said : ‘ She 's just what I 've been looking for . |
| 20 | And he said , ‘ Do you know , all my life I 've been looking for somebody who could do everything for three pounds a week . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I 've been looking for it for years , but I 'm not in charge of promotion and the people senior to me in my department are some of the most brilliant minds in England , and elsewhere for that matter . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been looking for you , Tommy . ’ |
| 23 | " I 've been thinking , it might be just the kind of Political party I 've been looking for . |
| 24 | " We 've been looking for you , " said Hazel . |
| 25 | No he said , I ca n't give it back to you , you 're the person that I 've been looking for all my life . |
| 26 | Arms salesman ; okay the Avenger the Equaliser the Total Fucking Nutter went for the legs too but still , and the editor spiked , and the rapist-lenient judge raped and the pornographer poisoned and stroked and the man who was so callous about the bloodshed in the Iran/Iraq war forced to watch his penned animals die like cattle like soldiers like cattle and then bled to death in his own private fountains of blood and the businessman who put profits before safety and not only helped kill a thousand people but then tried to get out of paying the survivors and dependants any compensation gets his own gas explosion — blevey is the technical term apparently — and fuck me whoever he is ( assuming he is a he ) , he 's got a sense of humour or at least irony why he 's produced what 's almost a snuff video effectively a snuff video if you mean brain-death anyway it 's the closest anyone will admit to ever having seen or found one even the Obscene Pubs Squad who 've been looking for years but although everybody assumes they exist nobody 's ever seen one until old gorilla man comes along and just makes his own , specifically to warn off any other porn merchants thinking of dealing in snuff ! |
| 27 | He said , ‘ I 've been looking for you , Charlie . ’ |
| 28 | The idea that you might be the person we 've been looking for came after I 'd met you . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I 've been looking for you all over the house . ’ |
| 30 | We 've been looking for you for some months . |