Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] have [be] [verb] 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 | Apparently it has been recognised for over a decade that chlorine from chlorofluorocarbons may deplete the stratospheric ozone layer . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps it 's been buried for ten years , ’ she whispered to herself . |
| 6 | The book was all he had been waiting for , and all was going according to plan . |
| 7 | So he 'd been looking for her . |
| 8 | President Bill Clinton has been in the White House just a month but already he 's been proposed for Oxford University 's highest honour . |
| 9 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's not a pleasant feeling to find out you 've been taken for a ride by someone you trusted . ’ |
| 11 | Now we 've been asking for this for years . |
| 12 | Often they had been laid for commercial purposes , including coal mining , but were becoming disused . |
| 13 | Just now it has been condemned for supporting Queer City , a collection of works by ‘ noted gay writers in New York City ’ ( this phrase is Chairman Frohnmayer 's own ) . |
| 14 | Now he 's been banned for another 12 months at Banbury , Oxfordshire . |
| 15 | ‘ You can imagine what a spell in the Army would have meant for someone who values his fingers as a pianist , so when I came back home I got in touch with some people and now he has been booked for a number of festivals , ’ Alan tells me . |
| 16 | So far it has been implemented for the 68000 , 88000 , R-Series and Sparc processors . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Well it 's been booked for three or four weeks has n't it ? |
| 20 | I think I can say that during my career most of the things I 've decided ought to be done , I 've got done , but I 've done them in very different ways to other people and sometimes I 've been criticised for not going out and grabbing the headlines . |
| 21 | You ca n't imagine how I have been aching for you … |
| 22 | Just as well so late I 've been waiting for to come . |
| 23 | But at least she has been prepared for her party to stand in elections here . |
| 24 | come on then we 've been waiting for you to come , come on |
| 25 | And we and then we had been working for him for about ten or eleven years on this contract that he had for us . |
| 26 | There they had been questioned for a long time , in a way which — Alice could see , watching Bert 's face as he told the tale — had not only impressed but sobered the two . |
| 27 | But it was Raynor who told her things about the Castle she did not know ; how it had been built for the first High Queen of all , and how the ancient pure magic had been woven into its walls . |
| 28 | Since then he 's been waiting for him higher up on various tracks . |
| 29 | Since then he has been cared for at the Airedale General Hospital . |
| 30 | Rain knew Oliver was picturing himself back in the wine bar in Chelsea telling everyone how he 'd been mistaken for a drug dealer and nearly done to death in a Mediterranean backstreet by an underworld rival . |