Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] [verb] for [det] " in BNC.

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1 Odds ratios for HEV were calculated for each covariate separately with or Fisher 's tests .
2 Do be prepared for some honest advice , though .
3 No he said , I ca n't give it back to you , you 're the person that I 've been looking for all my life .
4 I 've been looking for that all week !
5 We 've been looking for this car as part of a murder investigation .
6 Register Office , handful of guests , parents optional , drink-up at couple 's house ( in which they 've been living for several years already ) .
7 We 've been trying for some time to employ as many players as possible during the winter , and this sponsorship means that it should be possible to take the worry of finding winter employment away from virtually all of them .
8 they 've been done for many years
9 We 've also included in there , on item twelve , a net bill item , but does need to be recognized as an addition to your total spending , and that is , you 've been involved for many years with the health authority in arranging for the discharge of people from long-stay hospitals , and their absorption into the community , and each of these are a provider of many services , and daycare services to those particular individuals .
10 That 's correct , and that the further down , I mean it says that er there is a er it says that the reason you 've had been the reason you 've been sent for this treatment is because of er a particular condition you 've got .
11 He , too , married a girl of his own milieu ; they 've been separated for many years .
12 Now we 've been asking for this for years .
13 ‘ You 've been asking for this all night ! ’
14 All except , I can see , you know when they 've been asking for this money ?
15 You might remember I 've been pressing for this for about eighteen bloody months .
16 She said we are not employed , we are , so I said oh , what 's the difference , you pay for that , you 've been paid for that , I said , because I promise you can , you can go .
17 We 've been feeling for some time that our children are feeling that they 've been left alone , because er when they come to the temple they are too young to understand anything which is being explained from the stage , because er the speakers , or the preachers , have to cater for all the age groups and normally it 's for the , those who understand , already understand about Sikhism .
18 I 've been planning for this , too , over the last few days .
19 I 've been meaning for many weeks now to pass on 's French address , which filtered through to us in January — but of course you may already have had it from or heard from Janet yourself .
20 No I did n't Stefan , we 've been blamed for some things in our time , have n't we but
21 ‘ It 's what we 've been working for all season , ’ said the delighted Whitham , who now has his sights set on the international scene for 1994 , either in Superbikes or the 500cc Grand Prix series .
22 In the end , the quacks and medicine men were left with that strange , disembodied feeling you get when you 've been talking for several minutes to someone who is n't there .
23 ‘ I 've been hired for some zany roles in this metropolis , and a few of them leaned towards the crooked .
24 I 've been recording for this
25 Well of course I 've been saying for some time now , for some time , and I want to underline that , and I hope the government are listening that we 've had twenty thousand troops on our streets , we 've twelve thousand armed policemen on our streets , we have the strictest security laws in Western Europe , and none of these things have solved our problem .
26 So it 's really settling in and I 've been waiting for that to happen . ’
27 I 've been waiting for that featherbrained bird to buzz off , ’ said the frog .
28 that 's what I 've been waiting for that ten , ten do it again
29 ‘ I 've been waiting for this , ’ says Iain .
30 I 've been waiting for this moment all week .
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