Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] been [v-ing] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( a ) Children in need Section 20(1) requires every local authority : to provide accommodation for any child in need within their area who appears to them to require accommodation as a result of : ( a ) there being no person who has parental responsibility for him ; ( b ) his being lost or having been abandoned ; or ( c ) the person who has been caring for him being prevented ( whether or not permanently , and for whatever reason ) from providing him with suitable accommodation or care . |
| 2 | If someone else is living in your home , for example someone who has been caring for you , this may also mean the value is not taken into account . |
| 3 | The kennel maid remarked , ‘ There 's something queer about that animal , she has been waiting for you since early this morning . |
| 4 | ‘ She 's been calling for you , ’ Sister Duggan told him . |
| 5 | " Did n't Jenny tell you she 's been working for me ? " |
| 6 | She 's been asking for you , she feels terribly guilty about the baby . ’ |
| 7 | I feel that he has been waiting for me to get home so he can demonstrate this talent . |
| 8 | Like Costner , David , 40 , has had to guard Whitney from hordes of obsessed fans in the four years he has been working for her . |
| 9 | Do you know Dave I read erm we there 's a magazine called Good Housekeeping and it 's been going for it had been going for seventy years , last year it started in nineteen twenty one , women 's magazine , very good one and they had a sort of seventieth birthday issue |
| 10 | Do n't you want to know why he 's been looking for you ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I know he 's been looking for you . |
| 12 | ‘ That is Sparky 's ninth goal of the season and he 's been scoring for us throughout , ’ Ferguson said . |
| 13 | Since then he 's been waiting for him higher up on various tracks . |
| 14 | He 's been waiting for you to come off , ai n't I Yun ? |
| 15 | ‘ He 's been asking for you . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He 's been working for it for years . |
| 18 | ‘ He 's been working for you ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Everyone 's been looking for you ! ’ |