Example sentences of "be [v-ing] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the Versace emporium on London 's Bond Street , customers are clamouring for his suggestive leather look . |
| 2 | DEC already has the incomplete version 1 of the OSF operating system out on its MIPS line , and it 's this that customers are using for their own early development work . |
| 3 | Having turned towards your track at a certain angle , you now wait for your RC to move to a bearing where it is displace from 0° ( station ahead ) or from 180° ( station astern ) the same number of degrees that you are using for your interception angle . |
| 4 | There will then be all sorts of rumours buzzing through servants ' halls up and down the country to the effect that he has been approached by this or that personage or that several of the highest houses are competing for his services with wildly high wages . |
| 5 | IF YOU are catering for yourselves and driving to the resort , stock up at a hypermarket before you get there to avoid paying astronomical prices . |
| 6 | I have been singing for his lordship of Leicester . |
| 7 | On the other hand , if you are experimenting for yourself and do n't like the result when you change colours in one way , try changing colours on a different set of rows . |
| 8 | Oh Micky Mars Bars been knocking for me , Clinton 's supposed to be knocking for me , Jay do n't know what the fuck 's he 's , he 's supposed to be doing ! |
| 9 | In a way , it was a waste of the cover story Maxim had been kiting for his trip to St Louis , but if it was a step forward … |
| 10 | Referring to WBA and IBF champion Riddick Bowe , he added : ‘ There are two heavyweight champions who are bidding for someone 's services . |
| 11 | Pat herself has been very ill and people in QP have been praying for her . |
| 12 | I 've been praying for him and this looks like the best possible outcome . |
| 13 | ‘ Perhaps I am atoning for my misspent youth , ’ he replied amiably . |
| 14 | If you are applying for your first provisional licence you must not drive until you get it . |
| 15 | When birds are released from cages , they flap and stretch at a very high rate , suggesting that they are compensating for their earlier restriction . |
| 16 | Well , er the C B I and other bodies are pressing for them to come down at once , er John Major has said it 's only a question of time . |
| 17 | The four nations have also announced a ban on herring-fishing , claiming that the species is dangerously over-harvested , and are pressing for it to be registered under Appendix I of CITES ( which bans all exploitation ) . |
| 18 | Do n't worry , I 've told the solicitors that are appearing for us on the sixteenth of July that that 's the situation , that the have not joined in all of the partners |
| 19 | She had been aching for him since she had first seen him straddling that bike with such lazy arrogance . |
| 20 | You ca n't imagine how I have been aching for you … |
| 21 | erm Has that been a concern of unions , or has it been other sorts of organisations that have been pressing for them over the years ? |
| 22 | ‘ There 's two young women here are dying for it ! ’ |
| 23 | Well driving and for erm you know he had plant hire , he 'd been driving for him and that . |
| 24 | But she 'd taken an instant liking to you and for years she 'd been agitating for me to settle down . ’ |
| 25 | Because I 've been keeping a record of everything that 's been happening for you , you know , so you wo n't have missed anything . ’ |
| 26 | We have been looking for her for three weeks . |
| 27 | So he 'd been looking for her . |
| 28 | They were barely inside the front door when the elderly housekeeper appeared and told Cinzia that Signorina Cook had been looking for her . |
| 29 | And he said , ‘ Do you know , all my life I 've been looking for somebody who could do everything for three pounds a week . ’ |
| 30 | Manager Alan Murray had been looking for somebody to replace the unlucky Saville , who broke his arm hours after his Pool debut a fortnight ago in a freak restaurant accident . |