Example sentences of "[indef pn] [pron] have [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This is someone I 've been longing for you to meet . |
| 2 | ‘ You said someone who had been travelling through snow stood at the back of the church . ’ |
| 3 | I know this may sound like a long shot — but someone who 's been listening to 2 Pac 's ‘ 2PacalypseNow ’ super-LP was recently arrested in a stolen car ( with the tape still playing ) for killing a police officer in America . |
| 4 | If someone else is living in your home , for example someone who has been caring for you , this may also mean the value is not taken into account . |
| 5 | A thrill went through Alice , as when someone who has been talking for a lifetime about unicorns suddenly glimpses one . |
| 6 | Ima okay , suppose you 're at a night club and suppose that you really like somebody you 've been dancing with . |
| 7 | It 's their last song , the one everyone has been waiting for , it 's their biggest hit — it 's a hysterical cock-up . |
| 8 | And I kept staring at you and thinking , My God , she 's everything I 've been looking for . |
| 9 | ‘ The way you just came barging over just now — you could have blown everything I 've been working towards sky-high . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ When the police told me everything I had been doing over the last month it totally freaked me out . ’ |
| 11 | Look , ’ and she opened her handbag and reached inside , ‘ this was one I 'd been saving for him — ’ Her voice cracked and she began to cry . |
| 12 | That 's the one I 've been looking for ! |
| 13 | The moral common to these stories is one I have been emphasising throughout this discussion . |
| 14 | ‘ You must be the one , ’ said the young woman , ‘ You must be the one I have been waiting for , who must release me from enchantment . |
| 15 | It is in islands like the one I have been talking of that one can best speak to the emergent nations about their problems in a relaxed , a hospitable and an egalitarian atmosphere , and against the background of a shared experience . |
| 16 | I 'd have to buy an electric boiler to replace the gas one which had been leaking for a week now . |
| 17 | Directly you go ashore have a bath , send everything you 've been wearing to the laundry , and wash your hair . |
| 18 | Constance had lost Ludo — something she had been dreading on the journey up from Florence — but she was not alarmed . |
| 19 | It was something she 'd been wondering about . |
| 20 | Everything they have in that shop is better than the one you 've been wearing for ten years . |
| 21 | The one you 've been looking for for ages ? |
| 22 | But do ask when you get back to the branch , because it samples claims that Abbey has , have had , erm , it reiterates the statistics that you 've just heard , the likelihood of somebody suffering with cancer , heart attacks , strokes etcetera , it er , gives you the ages er , if you choose , write in statistics , the one you 've been listening to . |
| 23 | It was the one she had been rehearsing for all her life — that of martyr . |
| 24 | When she changed schools , however , the maths A level course was different from the one she 'd been following at her old school , but the new teacher expected her to catch up immediately . |
| 25 | ‘ This is something we 've been doing for years . |
| 26 | ‘ The scrapping of the tax is something we have been screaming for , ’ says David Austin of Rover dealers H.L Austin and Son . |
| 27 | Notts ' team manager , John Birch , said : ‘ It is something we have been working towards but which would not have been possible without Swithland 's backing . ’ |
| 28 | The one we 've been waiting for ever since we found the Worm . ’ |
| 29 | You are the one we have been waiting for . ’ |
| 30 | He scored another victory recently when the Labour Party abolished the unions ' block vote in the leadership elections , something he had been advocating for ages . |