Example sentences of "[that] i have been [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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1 | No he said , I ca n't give it back to you , you 're the person that I 've been looking for all my life . |
2 | She said : ‘ All that has held us together for years is that I 've been working for you . |
3 | Well I knew it was but it the fact that it had a nice easy switch in the base was something that I 'd been looking for . |
4 | When I replied that I had been fighting for the extra 200,000 I had managed to achieve , I was remonstrated with for having put the business at risk . |
5 | I can say without embarrassment that I have been training for this for a long time , that I have learned to breathe the rarefied air , that I now know when to stand still and when to move forward , when to attack and when to retreat , when to leave a problem to resolve itself and when to go on working at it till the solution emerges . |
6 | Well , I agreed not to speak more than half an hour , but I see that I have been speaking for a little longer than forty-five minutes . |