Example sentences of "'s be [v-ing] for " in BNC.

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1 Her tone is soothing , her whispers slide like sighs , but gently she is uncovering the reproach she 's been hiding for days .
2 ‘ Creed 's been looking for you . ’
3 Do n't you want to know why he 's been looking for you ? ’
4 For years he 's been looking for something to put his madness into .
5 No wonder he 's been looking for an excuse to get rid of you . ’
6 ‘ I know he 's been looking for you .
7 ‘ Everyone 's been looking for you ! ’
8 ‘ There is a man next door who 's been looking for a job at least five years .
9 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
10 It 's a time bomb that 's been ticking for centuries and the fuse has always been gold .
11 He 's just joined the Squadron but he 's been flying for two years . ’
12 She says that she 's been flying for three years .
13 ‘ She 's been calling for you , ’ Sister Duggan told him .
14 His lordship 's been calling for you . ’
15 The effect of these new measures will be to allow a substantial acceleration and simplification , which everybody 's been calling for , of decision making in asylum and immigration cases .
16 The school 's been lobbying for new buildings for several years .
17 They have n't noticed the so-called economic boom Chile 's been enjoying for the last twenty years .
18 It 's been devastating for those who 've cared for Sefton .
19 do you want a cup of tea that 's been stewing for three days ?
20 Listen , Bill — the boy 's been training for a few weeks , and it 's time he did some work .
21 It was , after all , a throat infection and he 's been training for the past week . ’
22 Ottawa , Canada-based 4GL software supplier Cognos Inc is about to consummate the moves into Unix and distributed computing it 's been flagging for a year , with the planned Six By Six launch of six products on six Unix platforms in August .
23 She 's been speaking for the first time on camera following her release from prison , exclusively to Central News .
24 There 's nothing new in that — she 's been trying for years .
25 It caps a deal that 's been brewing for some time for the pair to co-develop products this year that let Windows applications run on Unix desktops .
26 It caps a deal that 's been brewing for some time for the pair to co-develop products this year that enable Windows applications to run under Unix on desktop systems .
27 But it 's been hanging for the l particular local plan to receive more specific impetu done this exercise properly .
28 Well erm I think so , I mean they had a great side under Bill Beaumont 's leadership and it 's been promising for a couple of years with England , and today they actually came through with the goods erm a bit of an anti-climax last year at erm at Murrayfield .
29 Gator 's been riding for Vision practically since the birth of the wheel , and thus his models have always been a Vision favourite .
30 Now with this one the one we 've just done you do n't really know how far to go I mean I might have been going to ask erm how long has he been travelling if he 's been riding for a thousand hours .
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