Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [be] [v-ing] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For years , Costa Rica has been calling for the extradition of US citizen John Hull , charged with premeditated homicide , drugs and arms trafficking , along with other criminal acts including participation in the 1984 bombing of a news conference at La Penca , in which six died . |
| 2 | This , then is the state of affairs which Rigoberta Menchu has been trying for the past 11 years to bring to the world 's attention — an almost impossible task , given the fact that for most of that time the international press found Nicaragua and El Salvador much more diverting . |
| 3 | But parents throughout Northern Ireland have been campaigning for the new test to be revamped or at least postponed until pupils have had time to get to grips with the new format . |
| 4 | They have n't noticed the so-called economic boom Chile 's been enjoying for the last twenty years . |
| 5 | Mike noticed a group of heavy gamblers , most of them Greek , move towards the baccarat room , where the Sultan of Rupolei had been losing for the last hour . |
| 6 | Batty has been missing for the past 5 ? games . |
| 7 | Mari Marcel Thekaekare has been working for the last seven years on a project she and her husband started , working with tribal people in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu . |
| 8 | In the early hours of Sunday 13 February 1692 , Captain Campbell , from a clan hostile to the Macdonalds , along with 120 of his soldiers , whom the Macdonalds had been entertaining for the previous fortnight , suddenly fell upon their hosts and butchered them , shooting Macdonald himself in the back and killing nearly 70 men , women and children . |
| 9 | With the exception of ‘ Incident on 42nd Street ’ ( 1988 ) , the diptych owned by Metropolitan Museum and omitted for budgetary reasons , the exhibition features all of the themes which the artist has explored and culminates with a selection of canvases of Coney Island , where Jacklin has been working for the last eighteen months . |
| 10 | The thieves took £80 that 73-year-old Peggy Metcalfe had been saving for the past three months . |
| 11 | She wondered whether Amy had been looking for the Julians or for her when she drove down the drive ? |
| 12 | While women in the West have been fighting for the right to be accepted as builders , train drivers , engineers and scientists . |
| 13 | Mr Brandreth has been campaigning for the Army 's new pay and personnel centre to be located in Chester and he led two delegations from the city to see Mr Hanley 's predecessor , Archie Hamilton . |
| 14 | Thornton had been pushing for the same sort of readership , and the two men had another thing in common — they wanted action . |
| 15 | Euro competition chief Sir Leon Brittan has been pushing for the guide since a survey found British cars were an average 59 per cent dearer than the cheapest Continental prices . |
| 16 | At the end of this campaign it looked at last as if the time of peace had come , when the Council for which Anselm had been pressing for the past four years could be held with royal support . |