Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [adv] [be] [v-ing] 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 | By the time that came along I had already been playing for some time . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | And again there will be the same erm circumstances that I have just been describing for other people applying here . |
| 7 | I have unsuccessfully been searching for a set of military rear bumpers . |
| 8 | Whether or not she has talked to God , she has certainly been reviewing for him . |
| 9 | and now the moment you 've all been waiting for … if of course you entered our Christmas cracker competition … the answers and the winners |
| 10 | BERKSHIRE BBC ( , and ) proudly announce the release of the video you 've all been waiting for — ‘ THE WILDE SHOW ’ . |
| 11 | But you 've only been skiing for a short while . |
| 12 | We know that Roz 's new book on ‘ tensions ’ , which you have all been waiting for , is about to be published and she is also working on another booklet of machine knitting trims . |
| 13 | Considering she 's only been sailing for a couple of days , she 's doing very well . |
| 14 | I believe she used to be so reluctant about marrying people because marriage is important to her , she 's only been waiting for the right one . ’ |
| 15 | At last — the book we 've all been waiting for : The A-Z of Good Sex by SHE 's Dr Delvin . |
| 16 | We 've all been waiting for you for hours . ’ |
| 17 | Here are the selections we 've all been waiting for . |
| 18 | Yes , we had both been searching for years for a place like this , well away from urban life with some land and outbuildings . |
| 19 | But after a week or two it became evident that the various bridgeheads were being held and advances being made ( at what cost we did not then know , but could only guess at ) , and that this was in fact the big event we had all been waiting for . |
| 20 | But we have always been looking for the cause of the extra 40 per cent . |
| 21 | Perhaps Mr Paxman would at last achieve what we have always been waiting for him to do in one of his interviews : either fall fast asleep or choke to death on one of his own jokes . |
| 22 | But the downside is that Pinatubo — which had been dormant for 600 years — may have been the reason we have all been reaching for our brollies and in some cases sandbagging the front door over the past few weeks . |
| 23 | We have now been marching for more than four hours , it 's still very dark . |
| 24 | Funny that they 'd both been heading for the same place , though . |
| 25 | They 'd both been working for nearly two years , and all that time they had n't been paid a penny . |
| 26 | They 've already been walking for several weeks , many carrying their possessions in their school bags . |
| 27 | They 've all been waiting for more than 2 years for plastic surgery at Stoke Mandeville hospital near Aylesbury . |
| 28 | To some degree they had already been catering for children with special needs . |
| 29 | The implication of moral blackmail in robbing patient services to pay nurses remained a ghost at the banquet for the media , and for many nurses , who had still to reconcile the jobs they had perhaps been doing for years with the management 's idea of their responsibilities , and the clinical grade to which they aspired . |
| 30 | They had undoubtedly been asking for trouble . |