Example sentences of "[pron] i [verb] been [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trouble is my boyfriend , with whom I have been living for six months , thinks I should use the money to pay off our overdraft . |
| 2 | ‘ This is someone I 've been longing for you to meet . |
| 3 | For one thing Harlow is the sort of town which I 'd been agitating for both before and after the war whenever I was speaking on behalf of the Labour Party both at street corners and at public meetings on the type of life we vis envisaged for a normal person in the land . |
| 4 | When I was eighteen I came in contact with the Catholic Crusade which was a rather left wing Christian Socialist Organization and I found that their attitude to problems contained the answers for which I had been searching for a good many years tell me when you want me to raise something . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I took a drink from one of the twenty-four plastic gallon containers which I had been collecting for two years . |
| 7 | Intending to be a priest of the Church of England , I lost my faith , slowly but painfully , and at the end of the summer left Oxford and the house in Norham Gardens in which I had been living for two years and in which , by a curious turn of fortune , my office now is . |
| 8 | The canyon ran parallel to the continuation of the wadi which I had been following for days . |
| 9 | My flight path ended on a small ledge , my hands still grasping Olympus camera which I had been cradling for all my worth , regardless of the blows striking my body from every angle . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Brightest spot : the final , disgraceful death of the opinion poll industry , which I have been campaigning for since 1983 . |
| 12 | And I kept staring at you and thinking , My God , she 's everything I 've been looking for . |
| 13 | Look , ’ and she opened her handbag and reached inside , ‘ this was one I 'd been saving for him — ’ Her voice cracked and she began to cry . |
| 14 | That 's the one I 've been looking for ! |
| 15 | ‘ You must be the one , ’ said the young woman , ‘ You must be the one I have been waiting for , who must release me from enchantment . |
| 16 | During that week I felt the Lord speak to me and I knew that this is what I 'd been looking for all my life and I decided to follow Jesus . |
| 17 | Demelza , five , of Oakworth , West Yorks , said : ‘ She 's just what I 've been looking for . |
| 18 | ‘ What I 've been using for about the last five years are Seymour Duncan amps . |
| 19 | It 's just what I 've been hoping for ! |
| 20 | It beats changing nappies , which is what I 've been doing for the last 5 months . |
| 21 | that 's what I 've been waiting for that ten , ten do it again |
| 22 | I did not tell him that his imitation of the French was far more like what I had been seeing for the past year . |
| 23 | Joe invited us out to lunch , which was what I had been hoping for , because we were both more or less on our uppers . |
| 24 | That was just what I had been doing for the past four months innocent of impending restrictions . |
| 25 | One way to give ourselves new heart is to go where books and readers meet , and this is what I have been doing for the past year , working in secondary schools on research funded by the British Library . |
| 26 | ‘ This is what I have been waiting for to really make the hotel complete . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ It only proves what I have been saying for some time that this was nothing more than an arranged marriage . |
| 28 | This is exactly what I have been saying for years . ’ |
| 29 | Chris had insisted that if he was going to go out there , then so was I. I 'd been searching for a way out all night , but nothing convincing came to mind . |