Example sentences of "[v-ing] be [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wayne was enchanted to see Hermia and Perdita , and gave the appearance of having been searching for them all day . |
| 2 | Back down to Earth , and having been grumbling for months about high prices and offhand service I decided last week to try TGI FRIDAY 's AMERICAN BISTRO just newly opened in Gordon Street , Glasgow . |
| 3 | If its august it must be Fairport … for these fifty Americans … some of whom having been coming for ten years … their annual pilgrimage to Oxfordshire for the Fairport Convention festival starts with a meeting with the folk rock band in a local pub . |
| 4 | They continually threaten , nudge and jostle each other ; what they are doing is competing for rank . |
| 5 | They 're competing for access to male pouches , what mammalian males are doing is competing for access to female uteruses because it 's only in a female uterus that an offspring can develop if you 're a mammal . |
| 6 | Cos what we 're doing is going for each N tuple we go through each set of states here . |
| 7 | All they 're doing is asking for something to eat , but it can be quite painful |
| 8 | What you were doing was heading for the exit ! ’ |
| 9 | All they were doing was waiting for their Dad . |
| 10 | ‘ I saw babies flung out from windows and people who were burning were jumping for their lives . |