Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [v-ing] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During that week I felt the Lord speak to me and I knew that this is what I 'd been looking for all my life and I decided to follow Jesus . |
| 2 | ‘ I did n't even know of them until later on in my teens , after I 'd been recording for several years . |
| 3 | I 'd been waiting for some opportunity to show off , to draw attention to myself . |
| 4 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 5 | I decided to go back to the village , to thank him for all his help , and to carry out a plan I had been considering for some time . |
| 6 | By the time I was twelve years old I had been thinking for some time about getting a bird of my own . |
| 7 | My flight path ended on a small ledge , my hands still grasping Olympus camera which I had been cradling for all my worth , regardless of the blows striking my body from every angle . |
| 8 | In late August I was finishing my day at the heart clinic , where I had been working for several months , when I decided that it was time to go . |
| 9 | I had been working for more than an hour and my wrists ached from the continuous chopping , but I was filled with an immense exhilaration . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I 've been looking for that all week ! |
| 12 | So it 's really settling in and I 've been waiting for that to happen . ’ |
| 13 | I 've been waiting for that featherbrained bird to buzz off , ’ said the frog . |
| 14 | that 's what I 've been waiting for that ten , ten do it again |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been waiting for this , ’ says Iain . |
| 16 | I 've been waiting for this moment all week . |
| 17 | I 've been waiting for this for so long that I do n't think I can wait any longer — ’ |
| 18 | I 've been waiting for this chance since the days of the Witch of Endor . |
| 19 | I 've been waiting for this day all week . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I 've been recording for this |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I 've been planning for this , too , over the last few days . |
| 24 | You might remember I 've been pressing for this for about eighteen bloody months . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been running for several years but only up to half marathon distance , ’ he says . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I have been looking for that ever since I first became involved in politics . |
| 28 | ‘ It only proves what I have been saying for some time that this was nothing more than an arranged marriage . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I have been waiting for some time for hon. Members to refer to my apparel and I am duly flattered . |