Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] be [v-ing] 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 | She says we are looking for people who can pull a crowd as well as have a bit of fun . |
| 7 | He says we are pressing for compensation for more of these men . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | It says they are fighting for freedom for their people . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The Divisional Officer for the N U R , covering Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire , Phil McGarry says he 's looking for a fair deal : |
| 12 | Lawn Tennis : Beaten Borg says he 's playing for fun and the fans |
| 13 | Mr Gatoff says he is looking for offers in the region of £15m . |
| 14 | He says he is praying for rain , but is n't yet resorting to a rain dance . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | As one student patiently explained to me when I asked him how he knew what results he was looking for : |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It seems everyone is waiting for Strach to have 2 quiet games in order to start ending his career . |
| 20 | She senses he is waiting for some sign from her . |
| 21 | I do not know who the hon. Gentleman thinks he is speaking for , but I remind him that these people are volunteers and join with the approval of their parents . |
| 22 | The presence of a full moon in your opposite sign this week means you 're heading for conflict with your loved ones . |
| 23 | ‘ So that means we 're looking for somebody between five and eight ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ That means they are waiting for a baby from a ‘ broking ’ company , a children 's home society or even through a privately-reached financial agreement with the natural mother . ’ |
| 25 | Well a as long as he knows I 'm looking for him . |
| 26 | Volume numbers of Unix-based PC 's are n't there yet and Motif ca n't give us the cash returns we 're looking for with this product ’ . |
| 27 | However , like Olson , Hildyard and Greenfield , Lyons does not allow such qualifications to impinge on the general claims he is making for literacy . |
| 28 | The famous cantata Quando ridi , in which a lover claims he is dying for the sake of a beautiful mouth ? |