Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been [v-ing] for [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | See I 've been coming for years with mouth ulcers . |
2 | ‘ I 'd been expecting for ages to hear you two were getting engaged . |
3 | I 'd been caddying for Ralph Moffatt on the pro circuit and got him through the pre-qualifier at Fairhaven , so I told him I 'd be caddying for him in the Open as I 'd heard nothing from Jack . |
4 | But it was n't like I 'd imagined — except for the long silences when I 'd been hoping for laughs . |
5 | Thus flighted , I sent them shooting out over the mud and the water towards their suffocating ends ; then I buried them , using as coffins the big matchboxes we always kept by the stove , and which I had been saving for years and using as toy-soldier containers , model houses and so on . |
6 | The canyon ran parallel to the continuation of the wadi which I had been following for days . |
7 | I had been campaigning for Dewey night and day for six months . |
8 | I 've been searching for ages . ’ |
9 | I 've been searching for news of you all over Chelsea , Eaton Square , Cadogan Gardens … not a sign of your people anywhere . ’ |
10 | and I 've been trying for ages but there just has n't been any cos |
11 | I 've been trying for days , though , I 'm coming over tomorrow . |
12 | I 've been waiting for ages . ’ |
13 | I 've been waiting for fags since ten o'clock this morning . |
14 | I 've been waiting for years for someone to do that . ’ |
15 | I 've been working for Radio Skerne for about six years now . |
16 | ‘ I 've been travelling for hours . |
17 | I 've been lying for hours in the dark and thinking . |
18 | ‘ I 've been knocking for ages and all ye do is laugh up at me . ’ |
19 | Do you know I 've been dieting for week and I feel |
20 | And she has a hundred and forty and he 's gotten of cans for the his mum and Stewart 's been getting some cans for the shop for his granddad and I 've been asking for permission to go into the dump and get some for there . |
21 | As all the world knows I 'm now 61 so it follows I 've been playing for yonks , interrupted only by a broken leg and two children . |
22 | I have been listening for hours as our politicians tell us what they intend to do if elected , yet I have not heard one mention of the disabled . |
23 | For instance having retired to this lovely English village , and assembled my wits and memories to compile this narrative , I have had the satisfaction recently of discovering the original meaning of three common expressions which I have been using for years . |
24 | I have been looking for ages for a Victorian birdbath , without much success . |
25 | This is exactly what I have been saying for years . ’ |
26 | I have been arguing for institutions of higher education to do justice to the idea of a culture of critical discourse ( as Gouldner puts it ) . |
27 | I have been recording for ages . |
28 | A READER writes that she has been trying for weeks to find the outcome of the Prime Minister 's ‘ Taking Stock ’ exercise . |
29 | In the 19 years she has been working for Durham County Council 's social services the number of rehabilitation officers for the visually impaired has dropped to one . |
30 | They would all be returning to town in the autumn to meet some sons of good families in Riba ; she 'd been saving for years , money from the pigeons , money from the cheeses , the almonds , her mother 's money when she died — may she rest in peace and perpetual light shine on her — she 'd hidden it from that villainous landlord who 'd strip everyone of their surplus if he knew how much they 'd hoarded , but they 'd never find out , the folk were far too tight to let anyone know , and he , Davide , must not breathe a word . |