Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] been [v-ing] for [det] " in BNC.

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1 No he said , I ca n't give it back to you , you 're the person that I 've been looking for all my life .
2 I 've been looking for that all week !
3 So it 's really settling in and I 've been waiting for that to happen . ’
4 I 've been waiting for that featherbrained bird to buzz off , ’ said the frog .
5 that 's what I 've been waiting for that ten , ten do it again
6 I 've been waiting for this , ’ says Iain .
7 I 've been waiting for this moment all week .
8 I 've been waiting for this for so long that I do n't think I can wait any longer — ’
9 I 've been waiting for this chance since the days of the Witch of Endor .
10 I 've been waiting for this day all week .
11 Well of course I 've been saying for some time now , for some time , and I want to underline that , and I hope the government are listening that we 've had twenty thousand troops on our streets , we 've twelve thousand armed policemen on our streets , we have the strictest security laws in Western Europe , and none of these things have solved our problem .
12 I 've been recording for this
13 I 've been meaning for many weeks now to pass on 's French address , which filtered through to us in January — but of course you may already have had it from or heard from Janet yourself .
14 I 've been planning for this , too , over the last few days .
15 You might remember I 've been pressing for this for about eighteen bloody months .
16 I 've been running for several years but only up to half marathon distance , ’ he says .
17 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 .
18 I have been looking for that ever since I first became involved in politics .
19 ‘ It only proves what I have been saying for some time that this was nothing more than an arranged marriage .
20 I think I 'm making my point , I have been saying for some time now that given the fact that all that security has n't produced the results , the logic of that is dialogue , and when I see the opportunity as I saw it , of dialogue , direct dialogue with Mr Addams that could lead to a total cessation of this violence , I felt it was my duty to do so .
21 I have been waiting for some time for hon. Members to refer to my apparel and I am duly flattered .
22 I have been waiting for this , you know .
23 You 've been asking for this all night ! ’
24 In the end , the quacks and medicine men were left with that strange , disembodied feeling you get when you 've been talking for several minutes to someone who is n't there .
25 We 've been trying for some time to employ as many players as possible during the winter , and this sponsorship means that it should be possible to take the worry of finding winter employment away from virtually all of them .
26 We 've been looking for this car as part of a murder investigation .
27 ‘ It 's what we 've been working for all season , ’ said the delighted Whitham , who now has his sights set on the international scene for 1994 , either in Superbikes or the 500cc Grand Prix series .
28 Now we 've been asking for this for years .
29 I just said , goodness , I said we 've been waiting for this parcel since before Christmas and he says oh have you duck .
30 We 've been feeling for some time that our children are feeling that they 've been left alone , because er when they come to the temple they are too young to understand anything which is being explained from the stage , because er the speakers , or the preachers , have to cater for all the age groups and normally it 's for the , those who understand , already understand about Sikhism .
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