Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newley and I have been bidding for the same things for years . ’ |
| 2 | One way to give ourselves new heart is to go where books and readers meet , and this is what I have been doing for the past year , working in secondary schools on research funded by the British Library . |
| 3 | Perhaps my hon. Friend does not know that the Government have just announced that they intend to nationalise the private enterprise operation that I am running , which entails my sending those replies to all Opposition Members — as I have been doing for the past three months — and , this month , to Conservative Members , following an offer made to their Whips some time ago . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ I have been waiting for the last three years for an opportunity like this and I see it as the right time in my career to take it . |
| 5 | During the time I have been working for the playgroup I have come into contact with about 200 children . |
| 6 | If you have been hunting for the perfect diet for a very long time it will be difficult to stop , actually to believe that good weight control can be established without resorting to one special diet that you go on ( and then , and this is the snag , come off again ) . |
| 7 | ‘ Listen , Piper , first , you have been sleeping for the past hour , and second , I think the Germans are counter attacking . |
| 8 | As far as Kuwait is concerned we 'd like to see our country free again and this gives us the type of hope we have been wanting for the past six months , and I am sure for the people inside Kuwait — because I was there for about three weeks prior to the after the invasion I was there and I had to escape that country . |
| 9 | ‘ We have been threatened for the past three or four years . |
| 10 | In times of exchange rate volatility , such as we have been experiencing for the past few years , most overseas buyers will want to be invoiced in their own currency and avoid any exchange risk . |
| 11 | It endorsed British industry 's achievements under the policies that we have been pursuing for the past 12 years , urged us to continue and build upon them in future and condemned utterly the sort of policies still advocated by the Labour party , which is stuck in a mind-set of the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 12 | I do n't know then what we have been doing for the last four weeks , when we first asked . ’ |
| 13 | In addition to controlling the visitors during the parade , they have been collecting for the WRAC Association and the collection boxes must be returned to Corps Headquarters . |
| 14 | They have been selected for the quality of their objectives and will involve working in partnership with geographers , conservationists and ecologists in the countries they visit . |
| 15 | " I have been connected with different unions for this last twenty years " , he declared to the Royal Commission on Labour in 1892 , " but I am sorry to state that they have been formed for the benefit of one man , for he has generally cleared out with the funds " . |
| 16 | Often these can provide extremely useful teaching material , despite the fact that they have been produced for the general public , rather than with a school 's audience in mind . |
| 17 | They have been criticised for the choice of colours associated with warfare , but up here in these hills surrounded by an army of uniformed police , US marshalls and private security guards all bristling with weapons , it is war : UMWA vice-president Cecil Roberts has said as much . |
| 18 | They have been chosen for the posts in other parts of the country because their employers consider them to be the best people for these particular jobs . |
| 19 | This causes a reaction even after they have been entangled for the rabbits are inclined to bite at the net if they are left within it for too long . |
| 20 | But most of us have been waiting for the results of the Concorde trial . ’ |