Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] have [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then obviously I 've been looking for the wrong qualities in my secretaries . ’ |
| 2 | I will be very brief but just to welcome the fact that in we have been waiting for nearly fifty years |
| 3 | And he had to go and train somewhere down south , but he 's got a he , apparently he 'd been trying for a year and he 's got to Accrington . |
| 4 | The book was all he had been waiting for , and all was going according to plan . |
| 5 | So he 'd been looking for her . |
| 6 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
| 7 | Now we 've been asking for this for years . |
| 8 | That is erm whenever people look for an analysis of something , here I 've been looking for an analysis of individuation , there 's a tendency to consider candidate analyses one by one , singulatum . |
| 9 | Well we 've been planning for it for something like eleven months , with a small planning team , but at its height , just before Conference , there were a total of seventy officers involved . |
| 10 | You ca n't imagine how I have been aching for you … |
| 11 | Just as well so late I 've been waiting for to come . |
| 12 | come on then we 've been waiting for you to come , come on |
| 13 | And we and then we had been working for him for about ten or eleven years on this contract that he had for us . |
| 14 | Since then he 's been waiting for him higher up on various tracks . |
| 15 | In France , where I have been working for two years , the government understands the need for cultural things . |
| 16 | The biggest problem and disappointment was that the international rig count continued downwards and that was where we had been hoping for increased sales and increased market share looking into this year and into the last part of last year . |
| 17 | All except , I can see , you know when they 've been asking for this money ? |
| 18 | It was found in a garden where they 've been digging for the past six weeks . |
| 19 | After switching codes at the age of 11 when he moved to senior school , he began life as a flanker and it was not until 1973 , when he had been playing for seven years , that he moved to tight-head prop . |
| 20 | ‘ In Basildon only 32 out of 8,000 homes were sold and in Scotland where it has been running for two years only 223 out of 6,000 tenants have bought houses . |
| 21 | He had borrowed it from a fellow inmate of the lodging house in Kennington where he had been staying for the last week . |
| 22 | The victim was slumped over a freezer where he had been searching for a gas leak . |
| 23 | Do n't you want to know why he 's been looking for you ? ’ |
| 24 | One is , none of the departments are resourced to give this a lot of attention , and secondly we have been waiting for further guidance from the Government on the outcome , particularly from local government , in respect of agenda twenty-one . |