Example sentences of "[indef pn] [pron] have [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This is someone I 've been longing for you to meet . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A thrill went through Alice , as when someone who has been talking for a lifetime about unicorns suddenly glimpses one . |
| 4 | It 's their last song , the one everyone has been waiting for , it 's their biggest hit — it 's a hysterical cock-up . |
| 5 | And I kept staring at you and thinking , My God , she 's everything I 've been looking for . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | That 's the one I 've been looking for ! |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | I 'd have to buy an electric boiler to replace the gas one which had been leaking for a week now . |
| 10 | Everything they have in that shop is better than the one you 've been wearing for ten years . |
| 11 | The one you 've been looking for for ages ? |
| 12 | It was the one she had been rehearsing for all her life — that of martyr . |
| 13 | ‘ This is something we 've been doing for years . |
| 14 | ‘ The scrapping of the tax is something we have been screaming for , ’ says David Austin of Rover dealers H.L Austin and Son . |
| 15 | The one we 've been waiting for ever since we found the Worm . ’ |
| 16 | You are the one we have been waiting for . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | As soon as her breasts were free of their thin cotton restraint , he licked the soft , warm flesh , as if the taste of her was something he had been craving for an eternity . |
| 19 | He had found the one he had been searching for all those years — the one wavering on the brink of eternal damnation . |
| 20 | This was ‘ Ace 's wave ’ , the one he 'd been waiting for all his life . |
| 21 | No , it was the last you know the dramatic end that everybody who 's been waiting for watching that film from seven o'clock till |
| 22 | It never occurred to me that anyone who had been starving for years would feel an incredible , overwhelming urge to eat that was both physical and emotional . |
| 23 | Sorry to anyone who 'd been hoping for a match report from Newcastle , but I went home to Wakefield the morning after the game and so did n't get a chance to post one . |
| 24 | This competition is open to anyone who has been trading for less than three years ( ie since May 1989 ) . |