Example sentences of "[noun] have [be] [v-ing] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For years , Costa Rica has been calling for the extradition of US citizen John Hull , charged with premeditated homicide , drugs and arms trafficking , along with other criminal acts including participation in the 1984 bombing of a news conference at La Penca , in which six died . |
| 2 | This , then is the state of affairs which Rigoberta Menchu has been trying for the past 11 years to bring to the world 's attention — an almost impossible task , given the fact that for most of that time the international press found Nicaragua and El Salvador much more diverting . |
| 3 | Due to the fact that his marriage had been heading for the rocks ? |
| 4 | The fact was that Algy had been living for the last year with a working-class architect called Len in a basement flat in Maida Vale . |
| 5 | But parents throughout Northern Ireland have been campaigning for the new test to be revamped or at least postponed until pupils have had time to get to grips with the new format . |
| 6 | They have n't noticed the so-called economic boom Chile 's been enjoying for the last twenty years . |
| 7 | Well , the sun 's been shining for the opening day of the Henley Royal Regatta . |
| 8 | Mike noticed a group of heavy gamblers , most of them Greek , move towards the baccarat room , where the Sultan of Rupolei had been losing for the last hour . |
| 9 | But the Cossacks had been fighting for the Germans and the British Army 's main concern in Austria in May 1945 was to comply with the Yalta agreement ordering repatriation so that the Russians would honour a promise to return British prisoners of war . |
| 10 | It was as if a sick national organism had been waiting for the right , suitably appalling , symptom to erupt into general protest at its fate . |
| 11 | The territorial assembly has been calling for the tests to stop until proper health studies are done . |
| 12 | Batty has been missing for the past 5 ? games . |
| 13 | The charity has been running for the past ten years and also has a branch in Middlesbrough which specialises in providing relief for sufferers of cerebral palsy in Poland . |
| 14 | Mari Marcel Thekaekare has been working for the last seven years on a project she and her husband started , working with tribal people in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu . |
| 15 | In the early hours of Sunday 13 February 1692 , Captain Campbell , from a clan hostile to the Macdonalds , along with 120 of his soldiers , whom the Macdonalds had been entertaining for the previous fortnight , suddenly fell upon their hosts and butchered them , shooting Macdonald himself in the back and killing nearly 70 men , women and children . |
| 16 | The police federation and Association of Chief Police Officers have been campaigning for the introduction of sidehandled batons . |
| 17 | Tropical timber producers have been pressing for the ITTA , which expires next year , to be replaced by a comprehensive agreement that also covers wood from temperate forests . |
| 18 | With the exception of ‘ Incident on 42nd Street ’ ( 1988 ) , the diptych owned by Metropolitan Museum and omitted for budgetary reasons , the exhibition features all of the themes which the artist has explored and culminates with a selection of canvases of Coney Island , where Jacklin has been working for the last eighteen months . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's as if people have been waiting for the Autumn Statement . ’ |
| 20 | What TC said , most people have been saying for the last couple of seasons . |
| 21 | Political battle-lines have been hardening for the past three weeks . |
| 22 | But if the black hole has been emitting for the last ten or twenty thousand million years , the chance of it reaching the end of its life within the next few years , rather than several million years in the past or future , is really rather small ! |
| 23 | While John Paul Jones had been captivating the ladies of Paris the French government had been preparing for the most serious attack on England since the Dutch incursion into the Medway . |
| 24 | The reason for his pleasure , as well as for the handkerchief 's greyness , was that he had washed it himself … and really he had done just as good a job as the dhobi had been doing for the most extravagant prices . |
| 25 | The thieves took £80 that 73-year-old Peggy Metcalfe had been saving for the past three months . |
| 26 | She wondered whether Amy had been looking for the Julians or for her when she drove down the drive ? |
| 27 | While women in the West have been fighting for the right to be accepted as builders , train drivers , engineers and scientists . |
| 28 | Nitrate concentrations in rainwater have been increasing for the past seven years . |
| 29 | Political pressure has been growing for the Queen to pay . |
| 30 | Police have been looking for the killer of seventy year old Jim Eggleton since his battered body was found five weeks ago . |