Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [v-ing] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I have been waiting for this , you know . |
| 32 | While fashion magazines announce that longer skirts are in style , the princess has again appeared in the multi-coloured striped skirt she has been wearing for more than a year . |
| 33 | ‘ She has been missing for several days now and we are concerned for her safety , ’ said a Garston police spokesman . |
| 34 | The trouble was , once you 'd been driving for that long , you drove right through your tiredness and out into a dreamland where only the road was moving . |
| 35 | She 'd been waiting for this moment for so long , and all she could do , now that it had finally arrived , was think the worst of him , instead of simply being happy to see him again . |
| 36 | ‘ You 've been asking for this all night ! ’ |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
| 39 | It was as if she had been waiting for this moment for four years or more . |
| 40 | Tuesday — could it really be only Tuesday when now every cell of her body was alight with a feedback intelligence that told her she had been waiting for this man all her life … |
| 41 | She had been talking for several minutes about a party she had been to the previous evening . |
| 42 | It was the one she had been rehearsing for all her life — that of martyr . |
| 43 | She 's been going for that ra is it radium ? |
| 44 | I think that if we 'd been looking for some rather more er refined instruments of taxation , I nearly said torture , er from the continent then we might have looked er and found some rather better means of getting local money in to finance local government . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | We 've been looking for this car as part of a murder investigation . |
| 47 | ‘ 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 . |
| 48 | Now we 've been asking for this for years . |
| 49 | I just said , goodness , I said we 've been waiting for this parcel since before Christmas and he says oh have you duck . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | Also , we have been calling for many years for legislation to get rid of the offshore tax havens of the sort that Lord Duncan-Sandys ploughed money into from Lonrho about 1970 . |
| 52 | Some of this evidence comes from a corpus of anaphoric expressions from published material that we have been collecting for several years ( for a preliminary report see Garnham & Oakhill 1989 ) . |
| 53 | Divisional general manager David Howroyd commented : ‘ We are tremendously excited about this venture , which we have been considering for some time . |
| 54 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 55 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 56 | Speaking to The Art Newspaper , Drouot chairman Joel-Marie Millon said : ‘ We have been asking for this measure for years . |
| 57 | ‘ We have been asking for this specialist help at the Memorial hospital for a long time now , but there has been no movement from the health authority over this matter . ’ |
| 58 | Is this what we have been waiting for all these years , the answer that has so far eluded us ? |
| 59 | We are fighting to trade freely and openly within the law , as we have been doing for many years . |
| 60 | Register Office , handful of guests , parents optional , drink-up at couple 's house ( in which they 've been living for several years already ) . |