Example sentences of "[noun sg] have be [v-ing] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your mistress has been ringing for you this past fifteen minutes ! ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was obvious to Michael and Geoffrey that the car had been waiting for them . |
| 4 | The car had been waiting for him . |
| 5 | She calmly told me that the police had called round and that Nassim had been looking for me . |
| 6 | Your wife 's been asking for you — ’ |
| 7 | His lordship 's been calling for you . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ He did n't realise that people all over the world have been looking for him . ’ |