Example sentences of "[noun sg] have be [v-ing] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your mistress has been ringing for you this past fifteen minutes ! ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The apparel industry has been searching for something new for a long time and this is something which will be exciting . |
| 3 | If the employee has been working for you for up to eight weeks and does not have a linking letter or a Leaver 's statement , phone your Social Security office and ask if the start of the PIW you are dealing with links back to a claim to a Social Security benefit . |
| 4 | It was obvious to Michael and Geoffrey that the car had been waiting for them . |
| 5 | The car had been waiting for him . |
| 6 | She calmly told me that the police had called round and that Nassim had been looking for me . |
| 7 | The business lobby has been squealing for everything from accelerated depreciation allowances to a Business Development Board to grant cheap loans . |
| 8 | The girl had been missing for what — a week ? — and off-hand he agreed with the local man 's judgement that she had been here for most of it . |
| 9 | Your wife 's been asking for you — ’ |
| 10 | His lordship 's been calling for you . ’ |
| 11 | Since Gooding 's detention in Coney Hill , the city 's MP has been campaigning for his transfer to more secure premises . |
| 12 | By a coincidence the letter had been waiting for her on her dressing-table when she had got in from the pictures the previous night , just after she had been thinking and talking of Hilda . |
| 13 | ‘ He did n't realise that people all over the world have been looking for him . ’ |
| 14 | The pensioner had been caring for his sick wife and had been able to make the US trip only because she had been taken into a nursing home to allow him to have the break . |
| 15 | An arctic explorer has been preparing for his latest expedition by spending the weekend in a freezer . |
| 16 | In a way , it was a waste of the cover story Maxim had been kiting for his trip to St Louis , but if it was a step forward … |