Example sentences of "[vb past] be [v-ing] for [adj] " 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 | Mr Probyn is being questioned about the death of his wife , Tanya , who was 28 , and who 'd been missing for six days before her body was found in her car in the River Severn . |
| 8 | She 'd been missing for 24 hours , her disappearance reported by her boyfriend , himself arrested and questioned by police , but then released . |
| 9 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 10 | this chap was here last week he bought this pine table up , got his key , and he 'd been working for three years in Norway |
| 11 | ‘ I did n't even know of them until later on in my teens , after I 'd been recording for several years . |
| 12 | If he 'd been cycling for fourteen hours , let's say fifteen hours . |
| 13 | If he 'd been cycling for fifteen hours , you you have a look and tell me how far he would have gone . |
| 14 | He 'd been driving for sixty years , you 've never had an accident . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |
| 17 | And he 'd been rubbing for that long they 'd gone that colour . |
| 18 | The first show we ever did was opening for Living Colour , and we 've just done a mini-tour with Adrian Belew 's band . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The US and North Korean governments had been communicating for several years at a low level through the US embassy in Beijing . |
| 21 | Alexei had been listening for other footsteps coming along the bridge . |
| 22 | A report to the meeting said services to the region had been deteriorating for several years , with fewer trains running at less flexible times . |
| 23 | A report to the meeting said services to the region had been deteriorating for several years , with fewer trains at less flexible times . |
| 24 | Indeed , I recall being present at a formal state banquet in Malawi when the Life President , His Excellency the very elderly Dr Hastings Banda , had been speaking for 45 minutes proposing the toast and had still only reached 1947 . |
| 25 | He had been speaking for some five minutes or more with force and conviction , carried away by the things which concerned him greatly . |
| 26 | Both countries had been speaking for some time of their desire to improve relations , without making much progress . |
| 27 | Film shown on Algerian television that same evening recorded that he had been speaking for some minutes . |
| 28 | One student looking for employment had finished his grant entitlement in the first quarter of 1984 , and had been job-seeking for six months ( Table 7.2 ) . |
| 29 | To judge by the clutter of bottles , glasses , and over-filled ashtrays , and the brooding , weary faces , they had been debating for many hours . |
| 30 | Many had been decomposing for several weeks . |