Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] have been [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | You ca n't imagine how I have been aching for you … |
| 2 | In France , where I have been working for two years , the government understands the need for cultural things . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | All except , I can see , you know when they 've been asking for this money ? |
| 5 | It was found in a garden where they 've been digging for the past six weeks . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | He had borrowed it from a fellow inmate of the lodging house in Kennington where he had been staying for the last week . |
| 9 | The victim was slumped over a freezer where he had been searching for a gas leak . |
| 10 | Do n't you want to know why he 's been looking for you ? ’ |