Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] for [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To some degree they had already been catering for children with special needs . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , he has been caddying for Harley in Europe , and he did win one tournament and finished equal second in the other . |
| 3 | Below them , a large group of human subjects had been circling for hours around a roller rink set among the trees . |
| 4 | Disabled people from all over the country have been competing for honours in a carriage driving contest . |
| 5 | We have been struggling for years with an inadequate meat hygiene inspection system and we need , as soon as possible , to replace it with a centralised system that will guarantee high standards and uniform costs . |
| 6 | Gristy had been trolling for mackerel since dawn , and had had one of his best catches ever . |
| 7 | The first is that some cricketers have been cheating for years in a most blatant manner . |
| 8 | The NPKTF , which had taken definitive form in 1902 , had been pressing for reconciliation within the Edinburgh branch , and was to play a strongly supporting role in 1910 . |
| 9 | The aim of this legislation , as the Supreme Court noted , is to facilitate economic development , although it is fair to add that lenders both from within and outside the country have been pressing for change for some time . |
| 10 | But Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown , who has been pressing for CUTS in interest rates , said the rise was ‘ disastrous . ’ |
| 11 | You might have been driving for years by going over the top of the wheel as a lot of lorry drivers do . |
| 12 | A lot of people started handing in pellet guns and antique muzzle-loaders they 've been keeping for years without a licence . |
| 13 | The Fed 's policy-making Open Market Committee met last Wednesday to set monetary growth goals for the second quarter and since then punters have been looking for signs of a massive rate cut . |
| 14 | He told officers that his friend had been looking for Carol in Bristol on the Friday before she died . |
| 15 | I have been looking for ages for a Victorian birdbath , without much success . |
| 16 | His best guess was that the reference was to Nerys , that his unconscious mind had been looking for comfort in the prospect that Wayne would at least be with his mother , in which case he decided that there was probably some hope for his mental state after all . |
| 17 | The maypole committee , of which Amos was president , had been looking for ways of raising funds for the May weekend and old folks ' treat ( of which more later ) , the most important weekend in the lives of the villagers . |
| 18 | Other sectors , such as oil refining and petrochemicals , have been pretty depressed so contractors used to serving those industries have all been looking for business in the same markets as ourselves . |
| 19 | Environmental groups have been lobbying for years about the issue . |
| 20 | Many have been living for years in a shadowy , illegal world , doing the jobs that affluent Japanese now shun . |
| 21 | The calculation of unemployment statistics is somewhat different in Australia , the United States , Canada and Japan where sample surveys are taken to estimate the total number of people who are without jobs but have actually been searching for work during the sample period . |
| 22 | Irene Macaulay has been searching for peace for a long time . |
| 23 | I 've been searching for news of you all over Chelsea , Eaton Square , Cadogan Gardens … not a sign of your people anywhere . ’ |
| 24 | Since the publication in 1982 of the Barclay Report , Social Workers : Their Role and Tasks , many social services departments in the UK have been searching for ways of putting into practice ideas about community-based social work . |
| 25 | Yes , we had both been searching for years for a place like this , well away from urban life with some land and outbuildings . |
| 26 | The shape and musculature of a dolphin do not alone account for its speed and swimming efficiency , and biologists have long been searching for features of the skin which may explain the mysteries of the dolphin 's swimming prowess . |
| 27 | Airline stocks , which have been surging for months on a series of high-stakes takeovers , declined after one potential target , US Air , declared lower than expected earnings . |
| 28 | She had been heading for trouble by ever imagining that this man could be touched like any normal human being . |
| 29 | All afternoon she had been waiting for evidence of the racing rumour-machine at work . |
| 30 | The station was overflowing with badly wounded who had already been waiting for treatment for several days . |