Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [verb] for [noun pl] " 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 | But it was n't like I 'd imagined — except for the long silences when I 'd been hoping for laughs . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The canyon ran parallel to the continuation of the wadi which I had been following for days . |
| 6 | I 've been searching for ages . ’ |
| 7 | and I 've been trying for ages but there just has n't been any cos |
| 8 | I 've been trying for days , though , I 'm coming over tomorrow . |
| 9 | I 've been waiting for ages . ’ |
| 10 | I 've been waiting for fags since ten o'clock this morning . |
| 11 | I 've been waiting for years for someone to do that . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been travelling for hours . |
| 13 | I 've been lying for hours in the dark and thinking . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been knocking for ages and all ye do is laugh up at me . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The development is being promoted by the City of Edinburgh District Council , although it has not yet progressed to the submission of a planning application on which I have been asked for comments by the District Councils Director of Planning . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I have been looking for ages for a Victorian birdbath , without much success . |
| 19 | This is exactly what I have been saying for years . ’ |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | I have been recording for ages . |
| 22 | A READER writes that she has been trying for weeks to find the outcome of the Prime Minister 's ‘ Taking Stock ’ exercise . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It was her nail scissors that she 'd been searching for days , lost under the hearthrug and pressing into her hip ; and the cry was also her virginity , small and bewildered and gone . |
| 25 | yes you 've been promising for weeks |
| 26 | ‘ You 've been sleeping for hours , so I thought you might be about ready to get up . ’ |
| 27 | The , the direct debits that you 've been paying for years but you 're not sure where they go to , that sort of thing ? |
| 28 | She had been intending for days to make a start on clearing out the cloakroom ; now was the moment — she would make a preliminary survey , set aside what should be kept , see if there was anything good enough for Oxfam . |
| 29 | She had been prepared for tubes , drips , oxygen masks , machines that bleeped frantically , and anxious , hovering doctors in white coats ; not Bella , as truculent as ever , sitting up demanding cups of tea . |
| 30 | It felt as if she had been travelling for days instead of only one , on and off , and she arrived as dusk was falling . |