Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] be [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has she been bleeding for a two week period ? |
| 2 | And now you can ask I can sort of ask you questions on it like if he 's been travelling for let's say If he 's if he 's covered sixty miles how long has he been riding for ? |
| 3 | Okay erm If he 's done two hundred miles , how long has he been riding for ? |
| 4 | Has he been working for a long time ? |
| 5 | Mrs Armitage says she 's fighting for other families too . |
| 6 | Alison Taylor , the former Gwynedd social worker who says she was sacked for speaking out about the abuses in care , told Community Care last week that she was concerned both at the slow progress of the investigations and the decision of the Crown Prosecution Service not to prosecute certain individuals on grounds of insufficient evidence . |
| 7 | She says we are looking for people who can pull a crowd as well as have a bit of fun . |
| 8 | He says we are pressing for compensation for more of these men . |
| 9 | Campbell , California-based Apogee Software is porting its super-fast C and Fortran compilers to Solaris 2.0 for distribution by Highland Digital : Apogee says they are optimized for Sparcstation 2s and 10s . |
| 10 | Bill Mumford says you need climbing skills and it 's a challenge that takes them into a new realm … he says they are praying for dry weather … but it gets very cold … drops to minus twenty at night |
| 11 | It says they are fighting for freedom for their people . |
| 12 | What he says they were intended for and what their actual use was to be , were , I suspect , quite different . ’ |
| 13 | The management says they were closed for commercial reasons . |
| 14 | The various databases available come with BT-written reference guides explaining what the sources offer and what uses they are designed for . |
| 15 | And then you get lots of other unwelcome knocks on the door — one man who says he 's looking for number 11 , another who says he 's a taxi-driver who 's come to the wrong house — and he probably is but his timing is enough to make you rush about panicking and locking the place up like Fort Knox . |
| 16 | The Divisional Officer for the N U R , covering Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire , Phil McGarry says he 's looking for a fair deal : |
| 17 | Lawn Tennis : Beaten Borg says he 's playing for fun and the fans |
| 18 | Mr Gatoff says he is looking for offers in the region of £15m . |
| 19 | He says he is praying for rain , but is n't yet resorting to a rain dance . |
| 20 | He says he was made redundant from his storeman job but Mrs Smith says he was sacked for being drunk . |
| 21 | He says he was made redundant from his storeman job but Mrs Smith says he was sacked for being drunk . |
| 22 | Bethpage , New York-based defence electronics and aircraft manufacturer Grumman Corp says it is looking for an acquisition in the electronics , systems integration , or data systems areas — but it must be the right fit at the right price and the company ‘ wo n't force it . ’ |
| 23 | Nacro says it was built for 107 prisoners , but contains 195. making it eighty two per cent overcrowded . |
| 24 | Nacro says it was built for 107 prisoners , but now houses almost double that . |
| 25 | The Soviet Union says it was used for nuclear fuel . |
| 26 | As one student patiently explained to me when I asked him how he knew what results he was looking for : |
| 27 | No 3221 Set by Naomi Marks You were asked for Which -style guides to everyday objects — like cookers , fridges , etc — written in kulcher-babble . |
| 28 | This shows he is headed for a clear collision course with the opposition . |
| 29 | These proved to be the isolated buccaneer haunts we were looking for , and the hidden source of most of the nation 's sailing prahus and their mariners . |
| 30 | This requires a successful I test , with a -20 penalty , for any character who specifically states he is looking for something out of the ordinary . |