Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [adv] [been] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd probably been teaching for about four years before I began to have that confidence . |
| 2 | And when you were in suitably softened mood I was going to tell you how this time I 'd found what I 'd really been looking for all my life . ’ |
| 3 | I felt foolish that I had n't been prepared for the fact that his skin would be so bad or his teeth so deteriorated . |
| 4 | Alison was n't keen to take hers , but I managed to persuade her , pointing out that since I had n't been asked for any more money these were almost certainly aspirins . |
| 5 | Do you remember that evening — I had n't been working for you for very long — and you gave me a lift home ? ’ |
| 6 | By the time that came along I had already been playing for some time . |
| 7 | I had not been prepared for the volume of decisions I had to make . |
| 8 | I had not been prepared for a walk across a wasteland under a hot white sun . |
| 9 | like I 've just said , I 've just been speaking for a whole lesson , my voice is just I 've got to talk to you to explain what we 're doing , so let's quietly |
| 10 | I sang down the Bottom Club , so when I went down the next week the manager said I 've just been waiting for you , I 've been waiting for you to come in he said so he said , look the group ca n't come he said , will you sing ? |
| 11 | ‘ I 've certainly been criticised for that . |
| 12 | I 've never been forgiven for that . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ There have been certain views about Nigel all the time and I 've sometimes been criticised for not playing him . |
| 14 | And again there will be the same erm circumstances that I have just been describing for other people applying here . |
| 15 | Oh I 'm gon na start going , I have n't been swimming for that long and I 've been saying off and on oh I must go , I must go , but when it 's so cold outside you do n't feel like coming out with all wet hair and all that |
| 16 | ‘ It 's because I have n't been winning for a while and I am desperate . |
| 17 | ‘ But Gary — I have n't been spying for you ! |
| 18 | I have unsuccessfully been searching for a set of military rear bumpers . |
| 19 | I have now been retired for nearly five and a half years . |
| 20 | ‘ I have always been prepared for that . |
| 21 | ‘ I was a millionaire almost overnight about ten years ago so I have never been motivated for money . |
| 22 | She has also been optimised for racing with a Kevlar sail wardrobe . |
| 23 | Whether or not she has talked to God , she has certainly been reviewing for him . |
| 24 | She has often been criticised for not doing , or doing imperfectly , things she was not trying to do . |
| 25 | ‘ Tommy , you 've just been cautioned for the murder of … ‘ |
| 26 | and now the moment you 've all been waiting for … if of course you entered our Christmas cracker competition … the answers and the winners |
| 27 | BERKSHIRE BBC ( , and ) proudly announce the release of the video you 've all been waiting for — ‘ THE WILDE SHOW ’ . |
| 28 | But you 've only been skiing for a short while . |
| 29 | She had n't been prepared for the way poetry came into this fitting together of parts , Shall I believe that unsubstantial Death is amorous , and that the lean abhorrèd monster keeps Thee here in dark to be his paramour , she recited in her head , as O'Hara climbed on top and humped her beneath the rude unshaded bulb . |
| 30 | The girl had n't been born into this archiac world ; she had n't been prepared for a lover who was demanding and possessive , as Nicolo must have been . |