Example sentences of "'s been [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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1 | Her tone is soothing , her whispers slide like sighs , but gently she is uncovering the reproach she 's been hiding for days . |
2 | ‘ Creed 's been looking for you . ’ |
3 | Do n't you want to know why he 's been looking for you ? ’ |
4 | For years he 's been looking for something to put his madness into . |
5 | No wonder he 's been looking for an excuse to get rid of you . ’ |
6 | ‘ I know he 's been looking for you . |
7 | ‘ Everyone 's been looking for you ! ’ |
8 | ‘ There is a man next door who 's been looking for a job at least five years . |
9 | Bob Sillitoe says that since he came back from Kilimanjaro he 's been looking for something else … another challenge … the climbing has given his son a great sense of confidence |
10 | It 's a time bomb that 's been ticking for centuries and the fuse has always been gold . |
11 | He 's just joined the Squadron but he 's been flying for two years . ’ |
12 | She says that she 's been flying for three years . |
13 | ‘ She 's been calling for you , ’ Sister Duggan told him . |
14 | His lordship 's been calling for you . ’ |
15 | The effect of these new measures will be to allow a substantial acceleration and simplification , which everybody 's been calling for , of decision making in asylum and immigration cases . |
16 | The school 's been lobbying for new buildings for several years . |
17 | They have n't noticed the so-called economic boom Chile 's been enjoying for the last twenty years . |
18 | It 's been devastating for those who 've cared for Sefton . |
19 | do you want a cup of tea that 's been stewing for three days ? |
20 | Listen , Bill — the boy 's been training for a few weeks , and it 's time he did some work . |
21 | It was , after all , a throat infection and he 's been training for the past week . ’ |
22 | Ottawa , Canada-based 4GL software supplier Cognos Inc is about to consummate the moves into Unix and distributed computing it 's been flagging for a year , with the planned Six By Six launch of six products on six Unix platforms in August . |
23 | She 's been speaking for the first time on camera following her release from prison , exclusively to Central News . |
24 | There 's nothing new in that — she 's been trying for years . |
25 | It caps a deal that 's been brewing for some time for the pair to co-develop products this year that let Windows applications run on Unix desktops . |
26 | It caps a deal that 's been brewing for some time for the pair to co-develop products this year that enable Windows applications to run under Unix on desktop systems . |
27 | But it 's been hanging for the l particular local plan to receive more specific impetu done this exercise properly . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | Gator 's been riding for Vision practically since the birth of the wheel , and thus his models have always been a Vision favourite . |
30 | Now with this one the one we 've just done you do n't really know how far to go I mean I might have been going to ask erm how long has he been travelling if he 's been riding for a thousand hours . |