Example sentences of "[pron] have be [v-ing] 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 | 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 . |
| 17 | I have been looking for ages for a Victorian birdbath , without much success . |
| 18 | This is exactly what I have been saying for years . ’ |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | I have been recording for ages . |
| 21 | Authorities in Serbia again blocked a UN relief convoy which has been trying for days to reach the besieged Muslim enclave of Srebrenica . |
| 22 | The brew is still fermented for days , using the same yeast which has been working for years and years . |
| 23 | Repeated doses of bad news from the front generated mounting criticism of government incompetence ; ministerial confidence was visibly shaken ; and discontent which had been smouldering for years burst into flame . |
| 24 | For a start there were the Trumper 's advertisements on TV — a whole series of them , which had been running for years . |
| 25 | Airline stocks , which have been surging for months on a series of high-stakes takeovers , declined after one potential target , US Air , declared lower than expected earnings . |
| 26 | But Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown , who has been pressing for CUTS in interest rates , said the rise was ‘ disastrous . ’ |
| 27 | A READER writes that she has been trying for weeks to find the outcome of the Prime Minister 's ‘ Taking Stock ’ exercise . |
| 28 | They would all be returning to town in the autumn to meet some sons of good families in Riba ; she 'd been saving for years , money from the pigeons , money from the cheeses , the almonds , her mother 's money when she died — may she rest in peace and perpetual light shine on her — she 'd hidden it from that villainous landlord who 'd strip everyone of their surplus if he knew how much they 'd hoarded , but they 'd never find out , the folk were far too tight to let anyone know , and he , Davide , must not breathe a word . |
| 29 | It was her nail scissors that she 'd been searching for days , lost under the hearthrug and pressing into her hip ; and the cry was also her virginity , small and bewildered and gone . |
| 30 | Arms salesman ; okay the Avenger the Equaliser the Total Fucking Nutter went for the legs too but still , and the editor spiked , and the rapist-lenient judge raped and the pornographer poisoned and stroked and the man who was so callous about the bloodshed in the Iran/Iraq war forced to watch his penned animals die like cattle like soldiers like cattle and then bled to death in his own private fountains of blood and the businessman who put profits before safety and not only helped kill a thousand people but then tried to get out of paying the survivors and dependants any compensation gets his own gas explosion — blevey is the technical term apparently — and fuck me whoever he is ( assuming he is a he ) , he 's got a sense of humour or at least irony why he 's produced what 's almost a snuff video effectively a snuff video if you mean brain-death anyway it 's the closest anyone will admit to ever having seen or found one even the Obscene Pubs Squad who 've been looking for years but although everybody assumes they exist nobody 's ever seen one until old gorilla man comes along and just makes his own , specifically to warn off any other porn merchants thinking of dealing in snuff ! |