Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [v-ing] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been longing for peace and quiet so that she could get on with her carving , and , now that she had it , was standing here like a loon ! |
| 2 | Women 's Aid and the Domestic Violence Working Group — a body composed of those encountering the results of domestic violence — had been calling for clarification in the law since the decision . |
| 3 | There was no comfort either in Mr Ben Ali 's speech for the other opposition parties which , after their poor results in the elections , had been looking for government help . |
| 4 | His best guess was that the reference was to Nerys , that his unconscious mind had been looking for comfort in the prospect that Wayne would at least be with his mother , in which case he decided that there was probably some hope for his mental state after all . |
| 5 | Lukic looked a lot better by the end of the night , plucking out a few high balls as happily as Seaman had been doing for Arse all night . |
| 6 | All afternoon she had been waiting for evidence of the racing rumour-machine at work . |
| 7 | I found him in the Grange garden , where he had been waiting for news all night . |
| 8 | The Moslems , supporters of the Democratic Action Party ( based in Bosnia-Hercegovina ) , were protesting at what they claimed to be repression of the rights of Moslems in the Sanjak and Serbian efforts to drive them out ( Sanjak Moslem militants had been agitating for autonomy and closer links with Bosnia-Hercegovina , where Moslems were the largest national group ) . |
| 9 | The Young King had been pressing for permission to go on a pilgrimage to Compostella but Henry II , believing that this was just an excuse to get away from his watchful eye , had instead ordered him to help suppress the rebellion in Aquitaine . |
| 10 | The NPKTF , which had taken definitive form in 1902 , had been pressing for reconciliation within the Edinburgh branch , and was to play a strongly supporting role in 1910 . |
| 11 | Of course he had been working for Hut 6 from the day of his arrival at Bletchley and his duties soon became important . |
| 12 | Now of course , in a , in a complete psychoanalysis , if Woodrow Wilson had been going for analysis , then all kinds of other aspects of his life and personality would have opened up . |
| 13 | Theory 1 — Many in the West felt that the presence of police governments in the West did not represent what the people of Europe had fought for — they had been fighting for freedom of speech and democracy and the communist presence meant they had failed . |
| 14 | A report in the Sept. 10 edition of the Far Eastern Economic Review described the activities of the United Front for the Liberation of Oppressed Races ( Fulro ) , the Montagnard guerrilla army which had been fighting for autonomy in the Central Highlands since the 1960s . |
| 15 | She had been heading for trouble by ever imagining that this man could be touched like any normal human being . |