Example sentences of "[pron] have be [verb] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | See I 've been coming for years with mouth ulcers . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd been expecting for ages to hear you two were getting engaged . |
| 3 | But it was n't like I 'd imagined — except for the long silences when I 'd been hoping for laughs . |
| 4 | Thus flighted , I sent them shooting out over the mud and the water towards their suffocating ends ; then I buried them , using as coffins the big matchboxes we always kept by the stove , and which I had been saving for years and using as toy-soldier containers , model houses and so on . |
| 5 | The canyon ran parallel to the continuation of the wadi which I had been following for days . |
| 6 | I 've been searching for ages . ’ |
| 7 | and I 've been trying for ages but there just has n't been any cos |
| 8 | I 've been trying for days , though , I 'm coming over tomorrow . |
| 9 | I 've been waiting for ages . ’ |
| 10 | I 've been waiting for fags since ten o'clock this morning . |
| 11 | I 've been waiting for years for someone to do that . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been travelling for hours . |
| 13 | I 've been lying for hours in the dark and thinking . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been knocking for ages and all ye do is laugh up at me . ’ |
| 15 | I have been listening for hours as our politicians tell us what they intend to do if elected , yet I have not heard one mention of the disabled . |
| 16 | The development is being promoted by the City of Edinburgh District Council , although it has not yet progressed to the submission of a planning application on which I have been asked for comments by the District Councils Director of Planning . |
| 17 | For instance having retired to this lovely English village , and assembled my wits and memories to compile this narrative , I have had the satisfaction recently of discovering the original meaning of three common expressions which I have been using for years . |
| 18 | I have been looking for ages for a Victorian birdbath , without much success . |
| 19 | This is exactly what I have been saying for years . ’ |
| 20 | I have been arguing for institutions of higher education to do justice to the idea of a culture of critical discourse ( as Gouldner puts it ) . |
| 21 | I have been recording for ages . |
| 22 | Those breeds developed for guarding purposes , such as the Rottweiler , are naturally bold , and less amenable to accepting instructions from people than companion dogs such as the Tibetan Terrier which has been kept for centuries in the domestic environment . |
| 23 | I attach a copy of that which has been adopted for RIGS in England and Wales . |
| 24 | The nation has always been aware of its pre-eminent position , and proud of a moral ascendancy in the political sphere which has been sustained for centuries . |
| 25 | We have been told for several centuries now that every child is naturally different and it is therefore wrong to impose on one the mould which has been prepared for others unlike it . |
| 26 | There is even a copy of the program Chaos , which has been written for beginners as a heuristic aid for designing organic synthesis . |
| 27 | Authorities in Serbia again blocked a UN relief convoy which has been trying for days to reach the besieged Muslim enclave of Srebrenica . |
| 28 | Plainly , events such as the Durham Miners ' Gala , which has been held for decades fall within the rubric . |
| 29 | The brew is still fermented for days , using the same yeast which has been working for years and years . |
| 30 | He stated that in New York , regarding practical experience , the only bodies that trainee embalmers could obtain were unclaimed ones which had been refrigerated for months , and not just a few hours old , as is the popular myth in this country . |