Example sentences of "[to-vb] be [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is talk , still unconfirmed but reasonable enough , that Sparc cloners anxious to finally turn their allegiance to profit are pushing for the port . |
| 2 | ‘ What am I supposed to have been looking for ? ’ |
| 3 | He may miss out significant features of style which he happens not to have been looking for . |
| 4 | I appear to have been writing for years , and yet not one sentence has been completed . |
| 5 | He seemed to have been moving for an immeasurable time . |
| 6 | The new presumption of guilt is most explicit in the 1985 Wildlife and Countryside Act : ‘ If , in any proceedings for an offence , there is evidence from which it could reasonably be concluded that the accused was digging for a badger , he shall be presumed to have been digging for a badger unless the contrary is shown . ’ |
| 7 | Despite the widespread feeling that there had been a victory for parental rights , many of the Dewsbury parents claimed to have been acting for the sake of their children . |
| 8 | Then in his fifth year at the school , when he ought to have been aiming for his school certificate which was the next and essential passport for that golden educated future , he left abruptly to work as a haberdasher 's assistant in the local Co-operative store . |
| 9 | Their clothes were an abrasive barrier between them , and her hands were as urgent as his as she peeled off the same black dress she seemed to have been wearing for the past century . |
| 10 | He certainly seems to have been asking for something , if not something quite as drastic as he got . |
| 11 | He seemed to have been driving for ever . |
| 12 | With sufficient manipulation of the rota , it would be possible to arrange for the work-force to have been working for the same number of hours at different times of the day — condition ( 2 ) . |
| 13 | The gunman is believed to have been waiting for the women and chidren to come out of the shop . |
| 14 | He claims to have been paddling for 26 years , not bad for a 32 year old . |
| 15 | The the only job which I told Neil I do not expect him to take is working for waste disposal because he did that , this time last year and before he started he was full of big talk about you make a lot of money and you get a lot of tips at Christmas he found that you do not make a lot of money and you do not get generous tips at Christmas |