Example sentences of "be [v-ing] for have " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to this argument , the theory we are looking for has got to be the kind of theory that seems implausible to our limited , Earth-bound , decade-bound imaginations . |
| 2 | … with GCSE we 're plumping for having an external examiner to come into school , because the school years ago did a Mode 3 CSE , where all the kids put up an exhibition . |
| 3 | All that bottled-up vitriol for the man he 'd been waiting for had actually been for her . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm willing to quit a lucrative job in the City for a voyage of discovery in another direction , but only if the set-up I 'm quitting for has an even chance of staying afloat for the voyage . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ People were apologising for having to vote against us , ’ sighed Freddie Emery-Wallis , the Tory leader of the council for 17 years . |
| 6 | The ambitious eightfold gain that Europe is aiming for has proved equally elusive . |