Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [vb base] [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well of course I 've been saying for some time now , for some time , and I want to underline that , and I hope the government are listening that we 've had twenty thousand troops on our streets , we 've twelve thousand armed policemen on our streets , we have the strictest security laws in Western Europe , and none of these things have solved our problem . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ This is the boost we have been waiting for , ’ says sales director Malcolm Prior . |
| 4 | ‘ You 're a bloody good photographer and the work you 've been doing for the last five years proves it . |
| 5 | The main argument or basic responses you have been searching for are short statements which represent a stance or attitude to the question . |
| 6 | Part-time job that offers the flexibility you 've been looking for . |
| 7 | Ron Van Rapphorst of San Diego police said : ‘ We have located the vehicle we have been looking for . |
| 8 | ‘ The editor we 've been looking for will also have to be able to cope with Alice Cooper dropping into our offices , plus other heavy metal groups who 've been into the heavy metal jewellery shop , the Great Frog which is in Carnaby Street beneath our offices . |
| 9 | " This could be the opportunity you 've been waiting for , " she said slowly , her eyes black shadows in her face . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've a rather special wine I 've been saving for you to sample , Naylor , ’ Guthrie addressed his nephew as they began to tuck into a starter of scampi in flaky pastry . |
| 11 | For more than thirty years I have been fighting for them . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's the moment we 've been waiting for ! ’ |
| 13 | it 's the moment we 've been waiting for . |
| 14 | ‘ For many years we have been waiting for a mighty star to appear in the heavens and now it has . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | When you are ready , the person you have been yearning for will enter the meadow , and approach you . |
| 18 | The idea that you might be the person we 've been looking for came after I 'd met you . ’ |
| 19 | FOR teenagers , Wayne 's World is just the video they have been waiting for . |
| 20 | It 's the chance they 've been waiting for . |
| 21 | As soon as you get the good news you 've been hoping for , accept it . |
| 22 | Paul Groombridge says it 's the good news they 've been waiting for . |
| 23 | A lot of people started handing in pellet guns and antique muzzle-loaders they 've been keeping for years without a licence . |
| 24 | Then nine tenths of the rubbish they 've been printing for the last few weeks will be seen for what it is . |
| 25 | Yeah I know but Marks and Spencers are a crap shop I do n't care if they go out of business they 're a rip off anyway , they 're so expensive , such crap clothes , they 're so common , that 's the word I 've been looking for common , that 's my word of the week I think er common common , does it not get to ya looking like everyone else ? |
| 26 | Rory , have you heard a single word I 've been saying for the past five mintues ? ’ |
| 27 | And he said , ‘ Do you know , all my life I 've been looking for somebody who could do everything for three pounds a week . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ It may be the man you 've been waiting for , Master Benjamin , ’ she called across . |
| 29 | ‘ That 's the call you 've been waiting for , Travis , ’ he said awkwardly , aware of the atmosphere . |
| 30 | I would love to see Réaux on stage in one of the great Weill parts — ‘ My ship ’ is good enough to suggest that here , at last , perhaps , is the Liza Elliott we 've been waiting for . |