Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [prep] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mum Cheryl needs a heart-lung transplant but she has been waiting in vain for a donor since January . |
| 2 | He 'd been looking for that for ages . |
| 3 | With her spread hand she could pinch both of her temples and she 'd been sitting like this for a some time , holding out the light . |
| 4 | There was no law , strictly speaking , against experimenting , although considering the stage which Alexei 's trials had reached , it was clear that he must have been working on this for some time . |
| 5 | It had been running on unheard for some time , in any case . |
| 6 | Had been dreaming about this for a long time , he wrote . |
| 7 | She thought : I 've been living like this for years . |
| 8 | ‘ You 've been playin' with that for hours . ’ |
| 9 | Well , I 've been complaining about this for about three years now and the county council continues to think the forty mile an hour speed limit is perfectly alright . |
| 10 | Now we 've been asking for this for years . |
| 11 | You might remember I 've been pressing for this for about eighteen bloody months . |
| 12 | No Sally 's new at the job , we 've been working at this for for on on the technical front for some time , now let's just sit down and and work out what we 're gon na do . |
| 13 | ‘ This is n't a sudden change of course — we 've been working on this for a long time and over the last five years have moved our portfolio towards lower cost exploration areas . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been working on this for a couple of weeks now . |
| 15 | I think perhaps the council will now see why I 'm getting so frustrated and it 's because we 've been talking about this for over twelve months . |
| 16 | I 've been waiting for this for so long that I do n't think I can wait any longer — ’ |
| 17 | I can say without embarrassment that I have been training for this for a long time , that I have learned to breathe the rarefied air , that I now know when to stand still and when to move forward , when to attack and when to retreat , when to leave a problem to resolve itself and when to go on working at it till the solution emerges . |
| 18 | Now people have been looking at this for a long time . |
| 19 | Gardeners have been arguing about this for years , so I hope we can clear the matter up now once and for all . |
| 20 | Do you realise that those four or five women from the RVH have been fighting since 1984 for some sort of fairness and equality in their pay ? |
| 21 | I have an overwhelming feeling that these dances which have been going on unchanged for hundreds , perhaps thousands of years , are truer to the ‘ âme collective ’ than our restless , critical , self-obsessed quadrilles . |