Example sentences of "[vb past] be [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During that week I felt the Lord speak to me and I knew that this is what I 'd been looking for all my life and I decided to follow Jesus . |
| 2 | He 'd been looking for that for ages . |
| 3 | I think that if we 'd been looking for some rather more er refined instruments of taxation , I nearly said torture , er from the continent then we might have looked er and found some rather better means of getting local money in to finance local government . |
| 4 | This was ‘ Ace 's wave ’ , the one he 'd been waiting for all his life . |
| 5 | She 'd been waiting for this moment for so long , and all she could do , now that it had finally arrived , was think the worst of him , instead of simply being happy to see him again . |
| 6 | I 'd been waiting for some opportunity to show off , to draw attention to myself . |
| 7 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 8 | ‘ I did n't even know of them until later on in my teens , after I 'd been recording for several years . |
| 9 | The trouble was , once you 'd been driving for that long , you drove right through your tiredness and out into a dreamland where only the road was moving . |
| 10 | And he 'd been rubbing for that long they 'd gone that colour . |
| 11 | Well the people that done it did n't get caught but the corridor on which it happened was fined for all the equipment . |
| 12 | I am convinced that stuff had been accumulating for many years in this cellar and that Ernest Griffiths had no idea what was in there . |
| 13 | The US and North Korean governments had been communicating for several years at a low level through the US embassy in Beijing . |
| 14 | The report lists ‘ many faults ’ inherent in the way the railway had been run for several years . |
| 15 | They posed for photographers at the star-studded show , giving the lie to rumours they had been separated for several weeks . |
| 16 | It had been recognised for some time that only through rationalisation into larger productive and distributive units could the movement overcome the damaging rivalries among societies in the same neighbourhood , and through economies of scale promote further growth . |
| 17 | Why of course : the Essoldo had been built for these middle class folk in the 1930s — they were Patrons ! |
| 18 | A report to the meeting said services to the region had been deteriorating for several years , with fewer trains running at less flexible times . |
| 19 | A report to the meeting said services to the region had been deteriorating for several years , with fewer trains at less flexible times . |
| 20 | Another suggestion was that an entire class of LMS express locomotives had been withdrawn for some reason . |
| 21 | A solution has now been offered and , if we accept it , we were right : the ladies had truthfully reported what they had seen , but in fact it was a sort of fancy-dress fête champêtre organized by Robert de Montesquiou : as no official permission had been granted for this , the authorities denied all knowledge of it . |
| 22 | The exception was Dawn Allenby , a woman in her thirties who had been engaged for this first production only and who , two days into rehearsal , had fallen heavily for Richard St Ives . |
| 23 | The most recent outstanding event in Jim 's distinguished career was the publication of his definitive catalogue of the collections of Christ Church , Oxford , on which he had been engaged for several years , coinciding with the opening of the new galleries to contain them . |
| 24 | He had been speaking for some five minutes or more with force and conviction , carried away by the things which concerned him greatly . |
| 25 | Both countries had been speaking for some time of their desire to improve relations , without making much progress . |
| 26 | Film shown on Algerian television that same evening recorded that he had been speaking for some minutes . |
| 27 | To judge by the clutter of bottles , glasses , and over-filled ashtrays , and the brooding , weary faces , they had been debating for many hours . |
| 28 | The consultative document published in 1987 followed the principle that had been acknowledged for some time , drawing a distinction between essential items which were to remain free , and desirable but not essential items for which charges could be made , a distinction not in practice very easy to make . |
| 29 | Many had been decomposing for several weeks . |
| 30 | This was reportedly a concession which US oil companies had been seeking for some time . |