Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [adv] been [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And again there will be the same erm circumstances that I have just been describing for other people applying here . |
| 2 | Oh I 'm gon na start going , I have n't been swimming for that long and I 've been saying off and on oh I must go , I must go , but when it 's so cold outside you do n't feel like coming out with all wet hair and all that |
| 3 | ‘ It 's because I have n't been winning for a while and I am desperate . |
| 4 | ‘ But Gary — I have n't been spying for you ! |
| 5 | I have unsuccessfully been searching for a set of military rear bumpers . |
| 6 | Well if you have n't been working for six months you are looking for a job , you are not unemployed . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Mr Pearse said : ‘ Do not think that we have not been fighting for the price of Midland shares that we have just received . |
| 9 | But we have always been looking for the cause of the extra 40 per cent . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We have now been marching for more than four hours , it 's still very dark . |
| 13 | Although they have only been trading for the last ten years , they continue the tradition of using a water powered mill which started in the 1800s . |
| 14 | A number of experiments on bone modification in soil have been initiated , but they have only been running for five years and so far there is no good evidence of any change . |
| 15 | Although they have apparently been happening for much longer , abductions first started coming to light in the late Sixties , but they 've really taken over UFO culture since the publication of Communion in 1987 . |