Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] for [adj] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 … |
| 2 | I 've been waiting for this day all week . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I 've been waiting for this moment all week . |
| 5 | I , I look at these science things where , you know , they 're sending these things , America 's sending them , it 's been going for two year thousands of miles an hour , you know , probably a minute er and the as the man came over who went to the moon , the top man , to lecture and he was asked innumerable questions and one was do you think there 's anything up there ? |
| 6 | Erm the issue is is that potentially you could be goi we could 've been going for four point three extra people and we probably wo n't do that . |
| 7 | They had been flying for 16 hours 12 minutes , had survived two bad storms and had flown over 1,800 miles of ocean . |
| 8 | As budgets contract , appetites are expanding for old favourites such as oxtail soup and casseroles . |
| 9 | With the uncertainty about oil prices and the expense of both gas and electricity , many people are opting for wood-burning stoves These have long been a favourite in Northern Europe and America , and they can be amazingly efficient in heating most of the house , quite apart from being decorative . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm aiming for forty feet this time . |
| 11 | The pressure group Friends of the Earth thinks we should be aiming for four times that . |
| 12 | Romanians , Czechs and Soviets may still be playing for national honour next summer but they will also be in the shop window and the busiest men in Italy during June will be the agents . |
| 13 | The big fish had been making for deep water all afternoon and Trent had n't seen a bird for the past hour . |
| 14 | But likewise we were looking for another project similar to what er Eric and I were involved in with the cage drilling machine . |
| 15 | They were selling for five pounds each at a market at Moreton in Marsh in Gloucestershire . |
| 16 | The team is caring for growing numbers ill on the South Coast , including Brighton . |
| 17 | She 's hoping for better things this time round . |
| 18 | New York is planning for another deficit this year . |
| 19 | And I was looking for real ones this time . |