Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Saying that they were playing very deep , but Im sure Wallace would have been looking for those balls and giving the player in posession that option . |
| 32 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
| 33 | The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS . |
| 34 | Philip Larkin had already published two novels — Jill ( 1946 ) and A Girl in Winter ( 1947 ) — before he established himself in 1955 , with The Less Deceived , as the best poet of his generation ; and John Osborne 's first play ever to reach the public theatre , Look Back in Anger ( 1956 ) , was written by an actor untouched by academia who had been writing for several years and a stranger to all of them . |
| 35 | He has been writing for some time , starting with horror , and has more recently turned to the psychological thriller . |
| 36 | Thus , a Keeper of Italian Painting would have responsibility for the Italian drawings , thereby not only linking their administration and scholarly maintenance but also bringing drawing into the direct relationship with painting which Clifford says he has been advocating for many years . |
| 37 | Reagan hammered away at themes which he had been developing for some years and which would be wheeled out every time he ran for public office . |
| 38 | The zoo is now considering a number of proposals which includes one submitted by the staff and another by New Zoo Developments Ltd. along with an in-house plan which the Society has been developing for some time . |
| 39 | However , the system has now been operating for many years and much good work in the safety field has resulted . |
| 40 | The panic buying forced the Moscow city council on May 28 to announce a temporary ban on the sale of food and consumer goods in city shops to anyone unable to produce a Moscow residence permit ( such restrictions had already been operating for many weeks in Leningrad and a number of other cities ) . |
| 41 | Opinion : ‘ … it will not be known until Sizewell B has been operating for some years whether the PWR will become the established nuclear option that has been sought for 30 years . ’ |
| 42 | But while the exact timing of this pattern of events was unusual , the return of the overall pattern in the early 1980s comes as little surprise to some researchers , who have been warning for several years that a new drought cycle was due . |
| 43 | Another , a woman who was living , and had been living for many years in , in continuous adultery ! |
| 44 | Register Office , handful of guests , parents optional , drink-up at couple 's house ( in which they 've been living for several years already ) . |
| 45 | The US and North Korean governments had been communicating for several years at a low level through the US embassy in Beijing . |
| 46 | Athelstan studied him carefully , rather concerned , for by now Sir John would usually have been shouting for more claret or sack . |
| 47 | John Ambrose has been turning for many years , delighting competition judges and spectators with his originality and precision . |
| 48 | Carlson had been wondering for some time what was actually going on . |
| 49 | Dowd had been waiting for this man , Matthias McGann , to say his piece . |
| 50 | Tuesday — could it really be only Tuesday when now every cell of her body was alight with a feedback intelligence that told her she had been waiting for this man all her life … |
| 51 | I 've been waiting for this day all week . |
| 52 | It was as if Chambers bad been waiting for this admission . |
| 53 | I just said , goodness , I said we 've been waiting for this parcel since before Christmas and he says oh have you duck . |
| 54 | I 've been waiting for this chance since the days of the Witch of Endor . |
| 55 | How long have you been waiting for this car , a while have n't you Spen ? |
| 56 | As everyone turned to look at him , Jinny realized that he had been waiting for this moment all the time he was explaining his plan . |
| 57 | 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 . ’ |
| 58 | It was as if she had been waiting for this moment for four years or more . |
| 59 | She 'd been waiting for this moment for so long , and all she could do , now that it had finally arrived , was think the worst of him , instead of simply being happy to see him again . |
| 60 | I 've been waiting for this moment all week . |