Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They must have been riding for a long time , but there was no sign of a large town , only a solitary light shining ahead . |
| 2 | Brian Inglis , a writer on the paranormal , said the spoof could have been damaging for those who had had ghostly experiences . |
| 3 | If it was n't exactly political pessimism of the order of ‘ mourir pour Danzig ’ it must have been alarming for Americans to hear from High Commissioner Pignon 's diplomatic adviser of the feeling that French interests were not important enough to die for because the country was being given over to the Vietnamese and when the war was over French influence would have disappeared . |
| 4 | Whitaker and Milton would have been trying for a unique hat-trick in this , the most important of all indoor championships , after winning in Dortmund in 1990 and Gothenburg last year . |
| 5 | However , this is a direction in which we would already have been moving for other reasons , and the installation of a digital telephone exchange for the provision of extra lines to our new accommodation will greatly facilitate the process . |
| 6 | She had brushed aside the congratulations of her gynaecologist when he said , ‘ Most women would have been screaming for some kind of relief long before now . ’ |
| 7 | Police think whoever did it may have been searching for a non existant stache of money . |
| 8 | Barbara Coleman had said Maurin was responsible for keeping her hidden , and therefore the men who attacked Edouard could have been acting for him . |
| 9 | But , more than that , his predilection for Neath players deprived the club of their own best talent so that when they would otherwise have been training for the league , instead they were training for the Five Nations Championship . |
| 10 | It could have been leaking for months . |
| 11 | They must have been singing for , though Sharpe could hear nothing , he could see their mouths opening and closing in unison . |
| 12 | It must have been irritating for you . " |
| 13 | He must have been gouging for half an hour when an idea seemed to strike him . |
| 14 | His stillness made them hesitate ; he might have been watching for fish but the stream was hardly large enough for trout , only minnows or sticklebacks Libby pressed close to George , they stayed on the path watching . |
| 15 | Sir Patrick Mayhew must have been hoping for some winners and losers , as he considers how to kick-start his talks process . |
| 16 | At this time of the evening they 'd have been drinking for an hour . |
| 17 | ‘ Look for balding , bearded men , ’ I nearly said — but he may not have been looking for precisely that variety of technical person . |
| 18 | ‘ What do you think they could have been looking for — the people who ransacked her cottage ? ’ |
| 19 | She must have been looking for me because a few seconds later she spotted me and came over . |
| 20 | But no one else would have been looking for it . |
| 21 | Mr Stein would have been looking for chefs , receptionists , back-room staff , chambermaids , gardeners , laundry workers , bar staff , waiters … ’ |
| 22 | ‘ He sounds just the sort of keen , experienced youngster I would have been looking for . |
| 23 | He must have been looking for the keys . |
| 24 | And the car was such a mess nobody would have been looking for a sawn brake cable . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ The irony is that I did n't realise till Christmas , when I knew I loved you , that it was someone like you I should have been looking for all these years since . ’ |
| 26 | Master Thomas said they must have been looking for people , not things , and thought you should be warned , so … ’ |
| 27 | The only difference is that I suppose er at we have er which is development in North Stockton , we have er erm permission for four hundred erm executive dwellings which is the sort of er market which you could have been looking for at in the past . |
| 28 | Bristol had previously been heavily involved in the Iceland trade , but had been coming under pressure from increasing Hanse power there , and its merchants may well have been looking for alternative supplies of fish — it is worth stressing that the ships sent out in 1481 in search of the ‘ Isle of Brasil ’ were carrying a large quantity of salt ( 45 , pp.188–9 ; 94 , pp.177–82 ) . |
| 29 | Saying that they were playing very deep , but Im sure Wallace would have been looking for those balls and giving the player in posession that option . |
| 30 | He must have been looking for bathroom . |