Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] have [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean the doctor was no help and I 'd been waiting for over a coupla months to get into the Clinic for a detox . |
| 2 | And I 've been living for seven years ! |
| 3 | and I 've been trying for ages but there just has n't been any cos |
| 4 | I mean , dammit all , Charles has been working for 40 years and I 've been working for 22 ’ ) . |
| 5 | And she has a hundred and forty and he 's gotten of cans for the his mum and Stewart 's been getting some cans for the shop for his granddad and I 've been asking for permission to go into the dump and get some for there . |
| 6 | So it 's really settling in and I 've been waiting for that to happen . ’ |
| 7 | And I had been loading for the Major the last time that I was out shooting , the last time for me like . |
| 8 | Duncan and I had been talking for about ten minutes or more and swatting the increasing number of mosquitoes that always arrived in force at this time of the evening . |
| 9 | Newley and I have been bidding for the same things for years . ’ |
| 10 | Mr Probyn is being questioned about the death of his wife , Tanya , who was 28 , and who 'd been missing for six days before her body was found in her car in the River Severn . |
| 11 | And we 've been campaigning for years to try and get these laws changed , no-one seems to have been listening very much and that 's why we 've adopted this more upfront direct challenge to the law . |
| 12 | This is a firm and they 've been going for a number of years . |
| 13 | The other thing we do sort of every now and then , and next time will be Easter , we actually have some people in costume who actually reoccupy the house over Waster weekend in this case as as the household of William and they 've been coming for a long time now and they 've got set into the set into their roles quite well . |
| 14 | It will be a most welcome first for Derry should they win the Sam Maguire Cup and they have been preparing for their big day with rigorous training sessions under the watchful eye of manager Eamon Coleman who this weekend will outline his strategy in secret conclave with his players . |
| 15 | It would have been more usual to have asked her with careful casualness to wait behind after the meeting but what he had to say was private and he had been trying for some weeks now to cut down the number of times when they were known to be alone together . |
| 16 | And he 'd been rubbing for that long they 'd gone that colour . |
| 17 | this chap was here last week he bought this pine table up , got his key , and he 'd been working for three years in Norway |
| 18 | It was , after all , a throat infection and he 's been training for the past week . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ That is Sparky 's ninth goal of the season and he 's been scoring for us throughout , ’ Ferguson said . |
| 20 | Well erm I think so , I mean they had a great side under Bill Beaumont 's leadership and it 's been promising for a couple of years with England , and today they actually came through with the goods erm a bit of an anti-climax last year at erm at Murrayfield . |
| 21 | in time and it 's been going for about five years . |
| 22 | Do you know Dave I read erm we there 's a magazine called Good Housekeeping and it 's been going for it had been going for seventy years , last year it started in nineteen twenty one , women 's magazine , very good one and they had a sort of seventieth birthday issue |
| 23 | For one thing , the people elected Solidarity to govern and it has been governing for barely seven months . |
| 24 | The study … breaks the conspiracy of silence which has shielded so-called progressive education from criticisms that people like the Black Paper writers and myself have been making for years , that standards were falling because of non-structured learning and a lack of curriculum , discipline and order . |
| 25 | I can do it , but I 've been driving for two and a half years |
| 26 | But now I 've been drug-free for over a year erm but I 'd been trying for a few year before that and had nay managed to succeed . |
| 27 | We must , surely , eventually get to recovery , but we have been waiting for it for a long time . |
| 28 | Culdub Oakapple opened his mouth to say that acclaim was all very well in its way , but they had been hoping for something a bit more financial than that , but the two Gnomes on each side of him trod on his foot to stop him , because you could not always trust the Oakapple to be tactful . |
| 29 | This was Peter Lorre 's first film but he had been acting for ten years in a career which had begun with his running away from home at the age of 15 and which bore many similarities to the careers of other American and European actors who had arrived in Hollywood already . |
| 30 | He 's just joined the Squadron but he 's been flying for two years . ’ |