Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [v-ing] for a " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I have been working for a moment like this for nine years and finally it has arrived . |
| 32 | I have been working for a moment like this for nine years and finally it has arrived . |
| 33 | ‘ I have been dying for a toke all day . |
| 34 | She has been walking for an hour a day for more than a year , but very slowly . |
| 35 | So , you did so many miles per hour , we calculated , you would have done so many miles if you 'd been going for a full hour at that speed , so your dis your , your speed , velocity really but we 'll call it speed , right ? |
| 36 | She 'd been digging for a while when she looked up to swing the stone in her hand on to the pile , and saw Clare standing there . |
| 37 | Subconsciously , she realised , she 'd been hoping for a ready answer , an explanation which would clear her niggling doubts … |
| 38 | ‘ Dr Williams said , ‘ You 've been spoiling for a fight , now you 've got it ’ ’ . |
| 39 | She had been hoping for a ‘ jobs Budget ’ to fulfil a great need in East Anglia where there had been a big increase in unemployment . |
| 40 | Sophie 's voice dipped in disappointment , as if she had been hoping for a graphic account of overturned furniture and blood on the walls . |
| 41 | She had been meaning for an age to get a dimmer fitted . |
| 42 | In a taped interview with Jill Jones , Head of Science in a comprehensive , which I shall quote from several times , I asked her , after she had been talking for a while about the frustrations , what made it all worthwhile . |
| 43 | She had never mentioned that she possessed musical ability , so the crew listened spellbound for a few minutes as she played the carol ‘ Silent Night , Holy Night ’ , as though she had been rehearsing for a month . |
| 44 | She had been yearning for a baby for 20 years after her only other child , another boy , was killed in a car crash as a teenager . |
| 45 | You learn by doing , because you have been talking for a long time . |
| 46 | She 's been missing for a week , was going to marry a rising Minister , successful career , everything coming up roses . |
| 47 | If we 'd been looking for an easy acquaintance with nature , we would have chosen a different landscape : something lusher and more intricate , not this bleak and famished hillside on the Atlantic 's edge . |
| 48 | Because we 've been talking for a while so had time for it to evaporate . |
| 49 | It shows what we 've been saying for a long time , how fragile the markets in this recycling are , and I still stick to what I 've thought all along , that marketing comes first and making the product comes second . |
| 50 | One fishing vessel that we had been watching for a long period had more than one narrow escape from detection by British controls , but was finally turned back by Dutch customs patrols shortly after leaving a Continental port with a cargo of immigrants on board bound for the UK . |
| 51 | Looking back , I find it interesting that our exchanges were consistently humorous , as if we had been rehearsing for a Wit and Wisdom contest . |
| 52 | The young man admitted in due course , when we had been driving for an hour , that he did not know the way and was totally lost . |
| 53 | A small hole was dug , the cigarette buried , songs sung over the grave and then the whole procession wended its w ? y round the field four times singing the funeral march from Aida , which we had been practising for a week . |
| 54 | Scientific director Gordon McVie said : ‘ We have been looking for a link between diet and cancer for 20 years now and this could be it . |
| 55 | ‘ For many years we have been waiting for a mighty star to appear in the heavens and now it has . |
| 56 | ‘ With petrol ambulances , we have been budgeting for a fuel consumption of about 11 mpg . |
| 57 | Nobody left the queue : they were n't going to lose their place , they 'd been queueing for an hour . |
| 58 | They 'd been heading for a festival in Chipping Sodbury , but had been diverted by police . |
| 59 | The fog lifted and the house became filled with a babble of excitable people , few of whom spoke English and who all arrived at once because they 'd been waiting for a clear passage . |
| 60 | They 'd been waiting for a council house for 5 years . |