Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] have been [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was singing on stage when we arrived and by the time I had reached my seat I said to the man who was with me , this is the Salome I have been looking for . |
| 2 | ‘ This is the boost we have been waiting for , ’ says sales director Malcolm Prior . |
| 3 | Micropal measures volatility for all unit trusts which have been going for three years . |
| 4 | The main argument or basic responses you have been searching for are short statements which represent a stance or attitude to the question . |
| 5 | Ron Van Rapphorst of San Diego police said : ‘ We have located the vehicle we have been looking for . |
| 6 | Even one would be good enough for there are riders who have been racing for years and have never gone well here . ’ |
| 7 | Or was he merely seeking to confuse people in the West who have been calling for military intervention ? |
| 8 | Nevertheless , the good news will bring some welcome relief to those homeowners who have been waiting for the best part of 1991 to sell their home . |
| 9 | For more than thirty years I have been fighting for them . |
| 10 | ‘ For many years we have been waiting for a mighty star to appear in the heavens and now it has . |
| 11 | Many people find that they return to the same company over and over again , or take up a permanent job offer at a place they have been working for a while . |
| 12 | As far as Kuwait is concerned we 'd like to see our country free again and this gives us the type of hope we have been wanting for the past six months , and I am sure for the people inside Kuwait — because I was there for about three weeks prior to the after the invasion I was there and I had to escape that country . |
| 13 | When you are ready , the person you have been yearning for will enter the meadow , and approach you . |
| 14 | FOR teenagers , Wayne 's World is just the video they have been waiting for . |
| 15 | The opposition , a diverse and mostly respectable group of people who have been clamouring for a bit of say in the new Kuwait , did not get even a token position . |
| 16 | Yes , but I mean erm excuse me erm there are a lot of people who have been saying for a long time , the council are dragging their heels and they 're not doing anything . |
| 17 | Much will depend on how it seeks to solve the long-running debate about merging income tax and the national insurance system ; whether benefits , including pensions , are to be universal or selective ; and , if selective , how the state is to deal with obligations to people who have been contributing for many years to what they were told was national insurance . |
| 18 | The House may be interested to know that , because we were seeking to look at the effect of NHS management reforms over the first six months , we did not draw attention to the fact that the number of people who have been waiting for more than one year on in-patient lists is 37 per cent . |
| 19 | POLICE in Craigavon are searching for two teenage girls who have been missing for five days . |
| 20 | The annual Livewire competition is open to 16 to 25 year olds who have been trading for less then a year . |
| 21 | Nurses who have been nursing for some time are likely to have reached the stage where much of what they do has become automatic , that is , carried out without conscious thought or awareness . |
| 22 | In neighbouring Punjab the Sikh militants who have been fighting for independence are a spent force , partly because , after a decade of violence , Punjabis want peace . |
| 23 | There is some evidence that cervical cancer is more common in women who smoke cigarettes , especially heavy smokers or women who have been smoking for several years . |
| 24 | And the team will cry out for joy as well , because we were created for this community , and in a way we have been looking for it all our lives . |
| 25 | During the time I have been working for the playgroup I have come into contact with about 200 children . |
| 26 | Area manager Beth Robinson says : ‘ Our business in Finaghy has steadily increased year by year and for some time we have been looking for premises , in a prominent location , which would give us the space we now need . |
| 27 | NOW , Creggan , is the time we have been waiting for . |
| 28 | The length of time they have been waiting for a house or factors such as overcrowding and damp are far more important than marital status , Mrs Smith said . |