Example sentences of "[vb past] be [v-ing] 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 | 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 . |
| 12 | The US and North Korean governments had been communicating for several years at a low level through the US embassy in Beijing . |
| 13 | A report to the meeting said services to the region had been deteriorating for several years , with fewer trains running at less flexible times . |
| 14 | A report to the meeting said services to the region had been deteriorating for several years , with fewer trains at less flexible times . |
| 15 | He had been speaking for some five minutes or more with force and conviction , carried away by the things which concerned him greatly . |
| 16 | Both countries had been speaking for some time of their desire to improve relations , without making much progress . |
| 17 | Film shown on Algerian television that same evening recorded that he had been speaking for some minutes . |
| 18 | To judge by the clutter of bottles , glasses , and over-filled ashtrays , and the brooding , weary faces , they had been debating for many hours . |
| 19 | Many had been decomposing for several weeks . |
| 20 | This was reportedly a concession which US oil companies had been seeking for some time . |
| 21 | The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS . |
| 22 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
| 23 | The phone had been ringing for some time . |
| 24 | He had found the one he had been searching for all those years — the one wavering on the brink of eternal damnation . |
| 25 | The wood at the back of the painting was deeply scored with a dagger as if someone had been searching for some secret crevice or compartment . |
| 26 | By the time I was twelve years old I had been thinking for some time about getting a bird of my own . |
| 27 | In fact , he was so happy with the idea that had come to him from the writer , Peter Shaffer , he began the serious rethink of his career which friends like Lance Percival had been thinking for some time was overdue . |
| 28 | If it was a turning point in terms of ‘ proving ’ the relationship , it also marked the change in image Kylie had been wanting for such a long time . |
| 29 | The Old Stopfordians ' Association had been trying for many years to raise sufficient money to build the Pavilion , and indeed had sold the Harrison Towns field some three years previously for this very reason . |
| 30 | It would have been more usual to have asked her with careful casualness to wait behind after the meeting but what he had to say was private and he had been trying for some weeks now to cut down the number of times when they were known to be alone together . |