Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] for [det] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been looking for that for ages . |
| 2 | Now we 've been asking for this for years . |
| 3 | You might remember I 've been pressing for this for about eighteen bloody months . |
| 4 | I 've been waiting for this for so long that I do n't think I can wait any longer — ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |