Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [vb -s] been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bowie has already made a name for himself as an actor in a string of top movies , including The Hunger and The Man Who Fell To Earth , but this is the TV break he has been waiting for . |
| 2 | No wonder he 's been looking for an excuse to get rid of you . ’ |
| 3 | His twice broken kneecap still bears the scars — for Lawrence today was the test he 's been waiting for . |
| 4 | Mr Boris Yeltsin , the president of Russia , may have won the battle , but he has not yet won the war he has been fighting for more than half a year with the Congress of People 's Deputies . |
| 5 | Well obviously the sad reality of the thing does n't come home to , to our countrymen and a man comes up last week and tells me that he 's been paid off by the Daily Record he 's been working for them for thirty five years and he asked what how much pension will he have and says that he 's getting four years pension . |
| 6 | But it is also the tragedy of William Bentley , a tragedy because he too is a boy caught in circumstances which he is incapable of understanding and which will , finally , leave him totally unfit for the life he has been trained for . |
| 7 | The Tree has some pretty weird ideas about religion ; he might just swallow the idea he 's been working for the devil all this time . |
| 8 | Up there is how far away from home he is in miles along there is the time he 's been travelling for . |