Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been [verb] for this " in BNC.

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1 so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that .
2 I 've been waiting for this , ’ says Iain .
3 I 've been waiting for this moment all week .
4 I 've been waiting for this for so long that I do n't think I can wait any longer — ’
5 I 've been waiting for this chance since the days of the Witch of Endor .
6 I 've been waiting for this day all week .
7 I 've been recording for this
8 I 've been planning for this , too , over the last few days .
9 You might remember I 've been pressing for this for about eighteen bloody months .
10 I can say without embarrassment that I have been training for this for a long time , that I have learned to breathe the rarefied air , that I now know when to stand still and when to move forward , when to attack and when to retreat , when to leave a problem to resolve itself and when to go on working at it till the solution emerges .
11 I have been waiting for this , you know .
12 She 'd been waiting for this moment for so long , and all she could do , now that it had finally arrived , was think the worst of him , instead of simply being happy to see him again .
13 That 's correct , and that the further down , I mean it says that er there is a er it says that the reason you 've had been the reason you 've been sent for this treatment is because of er a particular condition you 've got .
14 You 've been asking for this all night ! ’
15 It was as if she had been waiting for this moment for four years or more .
16 Tuesday — could it really be only Tuesday when now every cell of her body was alight with a feedback intelligence that told her she had been waiting for this man all her life …
17 You have been selected for this commission because of your exceptional technical skills , and your great artistic ability .
18 We 've been looking for this car as part of a murder investigation .
19 Now we 've been asking for this for years .
20 I just said , goodness , I said we 've been waiting for this parcel since before Christmas and he says oh have you duck .
21 Speaking to The Art Newspaper , Drouot chairman Joel-Marie Millon said : ‘ We have been asking for this measure for years .
22 We have been asking for this specialist help at the Memorial hospital for a long time now , but there has been no movement from the health authority over this matter . ’
23 All except , I can see , you know when they 've been asking for this money ?
24 Viking is way behind schedule : it had been intended for this quarter , but StorageTek said that based on the present status of the product and schedule estimates it expects IBM-compatible products based on Viking architecture to be available in the second half of 1994 .
25 Not for the first time Rostov wondered why he had been selected for this particular mission .
26 As everyone turned to look at him , Jinny realized that he had been waiting for this moment all the time he was explaining his plan .
27 ‘ I asked him how he had been chosen for this honour and he told me ‘ I was pushed ’ ’ .
28 Neither of us had been prepared for this sudden release of feeling ; Edward seemed embarrassed by the confession , I embarrassed by his embarrassment , and regretting my earlier ungenerous thoughts …
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