Example sentences of "be [v-ing] for [pron] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , er the C B I and other bodies are pressing for them to come down at once , er John Major has said it 's only a question of time . |
| 2 | But she 'd taken an instant liking to you and for years she 'd been agitating for me to settle down . ’ |
| 3 | And erm you know , we 're waiting for him to come back and say , Yeah we need to talk . |
| 4 | In summary while we 're waiting for our to come back , if she is coming back we do n't know do we . |
| 5 | We 're waiting for you to sit down properly then we 'll start giving you things like milk . |
| 6 | She had been waiting for him to bring up the subject and was not surprised when he did so that very evening , although not , as she had anticipated , because of the eminently satisfactory report from her gynaecologist but for another reason altogether . |
| 7 | I feel that he has been waiting for me to get home so he can demonstrate this talent . |
| 8 | Alternatively , Ho may simply have been waiting for something to turn up , something that would tip the scales one way or the other in the situation that was neither peace nor war . |
| 9 | I sang down the Bottom Club , so when I went down the next week the manager said I 've just been waiting for you , I 've been waiting for you to come in he said so he said , look the group ca n't come he said , will you sing ? |
| 10 | He 's been waiting for you to come off , ai n't I Yun ? |
| 11 | It 's as if she is away staying somewhere , and we are waiting for her to come back , we can not do anything until she returns . |
| 12 | every year I 'm looking for it to move forward a little bit . |
| 13 | ‘ The way we conceded goals at Coventry was very hard to take and I 'm looking for us to bounce back as quickly as possible . |
| 14 | I 'm waiting for you to settle down . |
| 15 | I 'm waiting for it to go down and all , I 've got the eight . |
| 16 | It may be uncomfortable for the established order , but the time may be coming for it to move over . |
| 17 | The crowd were pulling for me to do well . ’ |
| 18 | We were waiting for them to turn up at Hamish and Tone 's but they never showed . |
| 19 | But there was no malice in their interest and I sometimes had the feeling that they were waiting for me to turn round and hand them a bag of toffees , with instructions to share them out fairly and not throw the papers on the floor . |
| 20 | ‘ People asked me and Derrick what we were doing over the past two years and the answer that I want to give is that we were waiting for everybody to catch up . |
| 21 | My aunt and uncle were waiting for us to come through . |
| 22 | The current NCT representative on the ( wait for it ) West Midlands Regional Health Authority 's Health Promotion Group 's Ante-Natal Care Action Group ( what a mouthful ) is about to retire and is looking for someone to take over . |
| 23 | I 'm sure she 's waiting for you to look in and say goodnight . ’ |
| 24 | So he 's waiting for you to come up and have a look at it . |
| 25 | The work with patients who had the delusion of being watched , and who spoke of the watcher as another person in terms like the following : ‘ He is waiting for me to go now ’ , or ‘ He thinks I should do such and such ’ , had first led Freud to suggest that a part of a person 's ego can keep watch over another part . |
| 26 | This can actually produce those distressing occasions when , for example , a husband and wife are sitting there looking at each other , the dying one trying very hard to get on and die because they understand everyone is waiting for them to do so , and the survivor trapped with their feelings of guilt about wishing their relative would die , whilst at the same time not being able to leave the person 's side in case they miss the moment . |
| 27 | He understood perfectly well , but was waiting for them to make up their minds whether they wanted money or a claim to Asia Minor . |
| 28 | Without saying anything further , he shifted his enormous shoulders more comfortably against the door-frame as though settled for the rest of the day , and moved his eyes to her mouth almost as though he was waiting for her to speak again , she thought , feeling thoroughly disgruntled . |
| 29 | Maybe there was some difficulty about Lilian 's dress or he was waiting for her to get back from the hairdresser 's . |
| 30 | He thought that the Robemaker was waiting for him to do so ; perhaps somehow to indicate that he would ask for mercy , but he had done nothing . |