Example sentences of "[noun] i [verb] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The moment I 'd been waiting for so long had arrived . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | For more than thirty years I have been fighting for them . |
| 8 | Meanwhile I continued the strategy I had been following for the previous two terms : feigning compliance with the authorities and responding co-operatively to their apparent concern , while continuing to eat minimally and to purge in secret . |
| 9 | Some items I 'd been holding for him . |
| 10 | It so happened that the firm I had been working for ( manufacturers of rubber-coats , ground-sheets , etc. ) had closed down the Glasgow Office and factory , and I was without work . |
| 11 | I also had a look at the fact that Toby might well be — or have been — the man I 'd been waiting for , though God knows I 'd never have recognized him in a million years if we had n't happened , entirely by accident , to stumble into each other 's arms . |
| 12 | So , off he went and came back one day saying that he thought he had the song I 'd been looking for . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | Rory , have you heard a single word I 've been saying for the past five mintues ? ’ |
| 15 | And he said , ‘ Do you know , all my life I 've been looking for somebody who could do everything for three pounds a week . ’ |
| 16 | For example own ( I am my own master ) or ( the ) very ( That 's the very thing I 've been looking for ! ) . |
| 17 | That is the very thing I had been wishing for — someone to recommend me . |
| 18 | I 've been very happy with Oxford the last 6 year I 've been racing for them . |
| 19 | I 'm sending you a document I 've been keeping for a friend . |
| 20 | ‘ In the letter , Tristram said ‘ I 'm sending you a document I 've been keeping for a friend ’ . |
| 21 | It might have been a delayed reaction to the drugs I had been taking for an operation I 'd recently had on my foot , but this seemed unlikely . |
| 22 | During the time I have been working for the playgroup I have come into contact with about 200 children . |
| 23 | ‘ As a matter of fact I 've been living for the past two years with a wonderful man . |
| 24 | " I 've been thinking , it might be just the kind of Political party I 've been looking for . |