Example sentences of "[vb infin] been [v-ing] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm the issue is is that potentially you could be goi we could 've been going for four point three extra people and we probably wo n't do that . |
| 2 | She had brushed aside the congratulations of her gynaecologist when he said , ‘ Most women would have been screaming for some kind of relief long before now . ’ |
| 3 | Athelstan studied him carefully , rather concerned , for by now Sir John would usually have been shouting for more claret or sack . |
| 4 | She must have been waiting for some time . |
| 5 | Eighteen months ago they would n't have been asking for more money |