Example sentences of "have [been] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Everyone , including the British Government , has been waking up to this horrific plight too late . |
| 2 | He had had only one more year to serve before he could have retired into civilian life , and both he and Isobel had been looking forward to this . |
| 3 | Some of the girls had been looking forward to this as to the highlight of the trip , but Clara had been dreading it , and for a classic reason , which was that she had nothing nice to wear . |
| 4 | She had been looking forward to this moment , for it promised a long-sought revenge : a revenge not only against her husband for the bitterness and suffering he had caused her , but also against the harlot , Hannah Gristy , whose lithe body and brazen looks had tempted young Gregory into fornication nearly forty years before , and of whom this insolent little slut was so painful a reminder . |
| 5 | After behaving with notable restraint during the election , she had been building up to this . |
| 6 | For several weeks now he had been chipping away at this problem of finding Elsie , slowly nagging it into submission . |
| 7 | A wheel designed just to go on turning , never stopping , so that for a hundred years with a hundred more to follow , she had been coming out of this cottage doorway , carrying her carpet-bag , filling her lungs with this damp , sooty air which had started to make Liam cough , reminding herself — as one simply had to do — to be thankful for such mercies as came her way , however small . |
| 8 | He was a small boy of six who lived just around the corner from her , and for days he had been going on about this great talking parrot his father had given him . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been looking forward to this , ’ Stephen announced with a kind of childish glee . |
| 10 | I 've been looking forward to this visit for a long time for that reason . |
| 11 | You 've been looking forward to this wedding for days now . |
| 12 | We 've been going on like this for months . |
| 13 | In fact , women have been speaking out on this issue for some time — among them Sue Cavanagh , co-author of a report on women 's loos published by the Women 's Design Service . |
| 14 | Looking immaculate in a bright red suit she said : ‘ I have been looking forward to this moment for a long time and I am glad to have been a part of it . ’ |
| 15 | Oh , I have been looking forward to this evening … ’ |
| 16 | It so happens Kelly and I have been looking forward to this weekend , and I guarantee that men will play no part in it at all . ’ |
| 17 | Public expenditure generally , and expenditure on social services in particular , have been growing rapidly in this century . |
| 18 | Yes , I 'm sure he 's a very very happy man tonight , he 's been looking forward to this game tremendously for the last couple of weeks . |
| 19 | Bruno 's been training hard for this fight in Leicester . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's been building up to this . |