Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] have [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 | While fashion magazines announce that longer skirts are in style , the princess has again appeared in the multi-coloured striped skirt she has been wearing for more than a year . |
| 4 | Her tone is soothing , her whispers slide like sighs , but gently she is uncovering the reproach she 's been hiding for days . |
| 5 | ‘ This is the boost we have been waiting for , ’ says sales director Malcolm Prior . |
| 6 | Maybe this was the break they had been waiting for . |
| 7 | Bowie has already made a name for himself as an actor in a string of top movies , including The Hunger and The Man Who Fell To Earth , but this is the TV break he has been waiting for . |
| 8 | I decided to go back to the village , to thank him for all his help , and to carry out a plan I had been considering for some time . |
| 9 | Although Eliot considered this idea a good one , especially in view of the articles I had been writing for the New English Weekly ( for example , ‘ Italy must Choose ; and ‘ An Open Letter to Ansaldo ’ , which Mairet had forwarded to the spokesman in question and also to the Vatican ) , he felt that such a book issued in time of war , would need official backing . |
| 10 | Dreams of Comfort and Anthony and David mixed with memories of the war and became tangled up with the figures on the painted ceiling above her bed and the work she had been doing for Kesselring 's trial . |
| 11 | Rain said : ‘ If Sabine Jourdain planned to reveal how much of Durance 's work she 'd been doing for him , a lot of people would have preferred she did n't . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ You 're a bloody good photographer and the work you 've been doing for the last five years proves it . |
| 13 | The main argument or basic responses you have been searching for are short statements which represent a stance or attitude to the question . |
| 14 | Part-time job that offers the flexibility you 've been looking for . |
| 15 | Ron Van Rapphorst of San Diego police said : ‘ We have located the vehicle we have been looking for . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | No wonder he 's been looking for an excuse to get rid of you . ’ |
| 18 | His twice broken kneecap still bears the scars — for Lawrence today was the test he 's been waiting for . |
| 19 | And as Morse opened his passenger door , he stood for a while looking up at the Pole Star , and asking himself the question he had been asking for the past two hours : was there any way in which Downes could still have been the murderer after all ? |
| 20 | All afternoon she had been waiting for evidence of the racing rumour-machine at work . |
| 21 | " This could be the opportunity you 've been waiting for , " she said slowly , her eyes black shadows in her face . |
| 22 | The moment I 'd been waiting for so long had arrived . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | For more than thirty years I have been fighting for them . |
| 25 | The moment she 'd been waiting for . |
| 26 | Now was the moment she had been waiting for . |
| 27 | And she passed with flying colours She 's been driving for years apparently but she had to take a test . |
| 28 | One day in the shop she 'd been waiting for Malcolm 's girlfriend and partner , Vivienne Westwood — they 'd been planning to go somewhere but Vivienne had n't turned up , she 'd phoned to tell this American girl that . |
| 29 | By the end of the " thirties , Aunt Tossie wondered for how many years she had been paying for interesting yearlings , and with very uninteresting results . |
| 30 | But she 'd taken an instant liking to you and for years she 'd been agitating for me to settle down . ’ |