Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] for [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the employee has been working for you for up to eight weeks and does not have a linking letter or a Leaver 's statement , phone your Social Security office and ask if the start of the PIW you are dealing with links back to a claim to a Social Security benefit . |
| 2 | Living Dead and Terminator slippers — people had been queuing for them for God 's sake — were being returned unused to the shops and credit notes cashed in for balls of wool and packets of scraperboard . |
| 3 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
| 4 | Mr Davidson 's father , Robert Snr , said Mrs Holmes had been working for him for the last eight years . |
| 5 | And we and then we had been working for him for about ten or eleven years on this contract that he had for us . |
| 6 | Retirement is one of the few moments which a politician can choose with deliberation and Baldwin had been preparing for it for months , if not for years . |
| 7 | ‘ We 've been looking for you for ages , ’ he said . |
| 8 | We 've been looking for you for some months . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been looking for you for days , now , ’ he said . |
| 10 | I 've been looking for you for years , but I only knew the name that she used to call you — Prince Charming . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been looking for you for years — Prince Charming . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been looking for it for years , but I 'm not in charge of promotion and the people senior to me in my department are some of the most brilliant minds in England , and elsewhere for that matter . ’ |
| 13 | They 'll let me in. — I 've been doing for her for years . ’ |
| 14 | Well we 've been planning for it for something like eleven months , with a small planning team , but at its height , just before Conference , there were a total of seventy officers involved . |
| 15 | ‘ Hullo , Pranger , I 've been waiting for you for years . ’ |
| 16 | " I 've been waiting for you for six hours . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been waiting for you for the past three hours , pacing the corridors , wearing out the carpet . |
| 18 | We have been looking for her for three weeks . |
| 19 | You have been looking for it for eight years . |
| 20 | We must , surely , eventually get to recovery , but we have been waiting for it for a long time . |
| 21 | Well Dennis er Roger 's been doing for it for Leeds North West have n't you ? |
| 22 | Well obviously the sad reality of the thing does n't come home to , to our countrymen and a man comes up last week and tells me that he 's been paid off by the Daily Record he 's been working for them for thirty five years and he asked what how much pension will he have and says that he 's getting four years pension . |
| 23 | He 's been working for it for years . |