Example sentences of "[noun] he have been [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | No wonder he 's been looking for an excuse to get rid of you . ’ |
| 3 | His twice broken kneecap still bears the scars — for Lawrence today was the test he 's been waiting for . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | Mr Boris Yeltsin , the president of Russia , may have won the battle , but he has not yet won the war he has been fighting for more than half a year with the Congress of People 's Deputies . |
| 6 | This was the moment he had been waiting for since his ordination . |
| 7 | Roddy Lou Thai was not pleased at all to be questioned by two representatives of the repressive Imperialist Government , under whose chauvinistic wing he had been living for four years . |
| 8 | Since he 'd arrived at Montpelier Square he had been listening for the slightest movement elsewhere in the flat . |
| 9 | Also , the mic was n't giving off the warm , mucky sound he 'd been going for . |
| 10 | Well obviously the sad reality of the thing does n't come home to , to our countrymen and a man comes up last week and tells me that he 's been paid off by the Daily Record he 's been working for them for thirty five years and he asked what how much pension will he have and says that he 's getting four years pension . |
| 11 | For years he 's been looking for something to put his madness into . |
| 12 | Like Costner , David , 40 , has had to guard Whitney from hordes of obsessed fans in the four years he has been working for her . |
| 13 | When Ellcock announced his retirement from first-class cricket at the age of 216 after Middlesex 's pre-season tour to Portugal , he was finally admitting defeat in a struggle to overcome back problems he has been fighting for much of his 10-year career . |
| 14 | By now he had had confirmation of the news he had been expecting for some time . |
| 15 | And just in case any men out there still need to be convinced that cleanliness is next to Robert Redfordness , how about the tale of a friend of mine who was desperate to impress a woman he had been pursuing for weeks . |
| 16 | All that bottled-up vitriol for the man he 'd been waiting for had actually been for her . |
| 17 | as if whatever he had done had cut him off from the mercy he had been seeking for so long . |
| 18 | Just as hapless as the plundering Norse overlord he 'd been playing for the past few weeks ! |
| 19 | Wordsworth 's poetic fluency had never been greater , and the landscape near Tintern Abbey , revisited after an absence of five years , released from him a stream of meditative blank verse quite different in style from the humble poems of rural life he had been writing for the Lyrical Ballads . |
| 20 | HE REALIZED IN THAT instant that this was the love he had been hoping for , his quest fulfilled . |
| 21 | He will himself present new data on the cohort of doctors he has been studying for the past 40 years , while his colleagues will review current knowledge on some of the many other topics that he has studied — including the effects on health of oral contraceptives , the parts played by radiation and by asbestos in various cancers , and patterns and trends in mortality . |
| 22 | Bob Sillitoe says that since he came back from Kilimanjaro he 's been looking for something else … another challenge … the climbing has given his son a great sense of confidence |
| 23 | Of course he had been working for Hut 6 from the day of his arrival at Bletchley and his duties soon became important . |
| 24 | Poor old Ken Brown , frustrated beyond his tolerance level , slid from the pedestal he had been erecting for himself following early and rebellious years , when , during the Murphy Cup at St. Pierre , his driver and a wooden tee box converged at not inconsiderable speed . |
| 25 | Then finally , Paul Reichmann saw the opportunity he had been waiting for in London , a city he fondly recalled from the days when he studied there as a young man . |
| 26 | In October , following a long silence , he finished two more of the autobiographical letters he had been writing for Tom Poole , providing in one of them , the most deeply-felt of all , his loving recollections of his father , and an account of the stormy night by the River Otter when he had almost died . |
| 27 | Howard had , after a quick tour of the TARDIS , retired to his office with a brandy bottle he had been saving for a special occasion . |
| 28 | The Tree has some pretty weird ideas about religion ; he might just swallow the idea he 's been working for the devil all this time . |
| 29 | He saw the hideous face of the huge thrashing thing before him , superimposed on that blank mask , and knew that it was the face he had been looking for since the death of his wife and son . |
| 30 | Up there is how far away from home he is in miles along there is the time he 's been travelling for . |