Example sentences of "[noun sg] they have been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe this was the break they had been waiting for . |
| 2 | Nell guessed from the centrifuges and freezers what type of work they had been designed for . |
| 3 | Many people find that they return to the same company over and over again , or take up a permanent job offer at a place they have been working for a while . |
| 4 | There was restrained optimism among Wickham 's team that this could be the lead they had been waiting for . |
| 5 | FOR teenagers , Wayne 's World is just the video they have been waiting for . |
| 6 | For her parents Fran and Les , it was the day they had been waiting for . |
| 7 | It 's the chance they 've been waiting for . |
| 8 | Paul Groombridge says it 's the good news they 've been waiting for . |
| 9 | Then nine tenths of the rubbish they 've been printing for the last few weeks will be seen for what it is . |
| 10 | By the time Iran had attacked a Kuwaiti , a Saudi and then a Liberian tanker ( the last of these caught near the principal Saudi terminal at Ras Tanura ) , the GCC states had begun to recognize this sequence — as it was doubtless intended — as a signal to distance themselves from Iraq in the light of the support they had been providing for Baghdad . |
| 11 | Bernard and Laura escaped on to their sailing boat for much of the summer , a yacht they had been enjoying for some years now , and they pottered around Mykonos in Greece . |
| 12 | The parents were outraged ; the managers had got the opportunity they had been waiting for . |
| 13 | Tom Dawson had hovered on the brink between life and death , and all the time they had worked so desperately to save him , she had been aware that it was n't just one life they had been fighting for but two . |
| 14 | A crowd of eager customers would be awaiting his arrival outside the shops and attack him for the particular colour , size or style of dress they had been waiting for . |
| 15 | Having accepted the ground rules , all the Grants appreciated and relished a structure that allowed a degree of communication they had been missing for years . |
| 16 | The length of time they have been waiting for a house or factors such as overcrowding and damp are far more important than marital status , Mrs Smith said . |