Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] [adv] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And somebody has been covering up for him — smoothing his footprints out of the mud , rubbing his fingerprints off the door handles . |
| 2 | ‘ It just seems not a lot has been going right for me this season . |
| 3 | He 'd been waiting there for me , I concluded . |
| 4 | It was as if he had been waiting there for me all my life . |
| 5 | Then , the following week , the essay on Jane Eyre she had been working on for her English class disappeared from her desk . |
| 6 | I do n't know how long it was that things had been going badly for them but I do know there were problems . |
| 7 | I 've been looking out for you . " |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been looking everywhere for you . ’ |
| 9 | I 've been looking everywhere for you . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been looking everywhere for you , ’ Helen snapped . |
| 11 | Darling , I 've been looking everywhere for you ! ’ |
| 12 | Where 've you been Ray , I 've been looking everywhere for you ? |
| 13 | Doreen hastened towards them , her face contorted with anger as she exclaimed , ‘ Silas — I 've been searching everywhere for you . |
| 14 | ‘ I got a whole morning off in Bruges , and I guess I 've been making up for it ever since . ’ |
| 15 | And and they 've been waiting since for it to happen . |
| 16 | The final " Dawn " sequence then has the effect both of a reprise , closing the musical form , and of an ironic comment on the human tragedy which , when it is taken out of the public arena into the privacy of Grimes 's mind , actually passes out of the consciousness and memory of those who , only a few hours before , have been clamouring loudest for its execution . |
| 17 | ‘ But it is such a useful box , ’ she said , ‘ I have been looking about for one like it . |
| 18 | ‘ Since the late Sixties , ’ says Richard , ‘ the women have become more active and have been standing up for themselves , as is only right , but men have become more passive . |
| 19 | I have been arguing here for what might be termed appropriate research , analogous to the notion of appropriate technology . |
| 20 | Welcome back:Thousands of new Oxford students have been signing up for anything from scuba diving to tiddlywinks , in this year 's freshers ' fair . |
| 21 | A cheerful Durie confirmed : ‘ Things have been going well for me and Spurs in the last few weeks . |