Example sentences of "i [verb] [be] [verb] for " in BNC.

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1 See I 've been coming for years with mouth ulcers .
2 I hate being pressed for choices .
3 This wrist model I tried was designed for air diving and programmed with the Bühlmann ZHL12 algorithm with automatic ranging from 3,500 metres above sea level to 100 metres depth .
4 I 'd been expecting for ages to hear you two were getting engaged .
5 I 'd been caddying for Ralph Moffatt on the pro circuit and got him through the pre-qualifier at Fairhaven , so I told him I 'd be caddying for him in the Open as I 'd heard nothing from Jack .
6 I 'd been thinking for a long time that I 'd welcome the chance to talk with a psychiatrist , although not about captivity — I felt I 'd worked my way through that enough — but about my past and how I came to be the person I was when I was taken hostage .
7 Chris had insisted that if he was going to go out there , then so was I. I 'd been searching for a way out all night , but nothing convincing came to mind .
8 Ever since I started consultancy work in politics , I 'd been pushing for the use of this simple invention — a British one — but it was n't until after President Reagan used it in his address to the Houses of Parliament that our politicians felt it was worthy of notice .
9 I 'd been loading for him , loading the t coal into tubs and tramming them .
10 So , off he went and came back one day saying that he thought he had the song I 'd been looking for .
11 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 .
12 Equally the use of ebony seemed a good choice ; I 'd been looking for an excuse to make something in ebony for ages , anyway !
13 I 'd been looking for a fairly young product which had a range of merchandise to allow a shop to stand on its own two feet .
14 Well I knew it was but it the fact that it had a nice easy switch in the base was something that I 'd been looking for .
15 But now I 've been drug-free for over a year erm but I 'd been trying for a few year before that and had nay managed to succeed .
16 No , not just one day , as I said , I 'd been trying for a few
17 Lucille Walker had n't brought me clear over to Hollywood just to tell me I 'd been played for a sucker .
18 But it was n't like I 'd imagined — except for the long silences when I 'd been hoping for laughs .
19 ‘ You sound as if I 'd been gone for a few hours and forgot to leave you a note . ’
20 Some items I 'd been holding for him .
21 All I wanted was to be left alone to get on with the job I 'd been trained for and loved .
22 Look , ’ and she opened her handbag and reached inside , ‘ this was one I 'd been saving for him — ’ Her voice cracked and she began to cry .
23 For one thing Harlow is the sort of town which I 'd been agitating for both before and after the war whenever I was speaking on behalf of the Labour Party both at street corners and at public meetings on the type of life we vis envisaged for a normal person in the land .
24 ‘ I did n't even know of them until later on in my teens , after I 'd been recording for several years .
25 I 'd been waiting for some opportunity to show off , to draw attention to myself .
26 The moment I 'd been waiting for so long had arrived .
27 I mean the doctor was no help and I 'd been waiting for over a coupla months to get into the Clinic for a detox .
28 I also had a look at the fact that Toby might well be — or have been — the man I 'd been waiting for , though God knows I 'd never have recognized him in a million years if we had n't happened , entirely by accident , to stumble into each other 's arms .
29 Actually , I 'd been waiting for somebody else but I just happened to be on hand and I could n't just stand there and watch her struggle with all those boxes , suitcases , typewriters , bicycles , stereo systems and so on .
30 ‘ Well , I 'd been waiting for her , too !
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