Example sentences of "have [been] [v-ing] [prep] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | Mr Davidson 's father , Robert Snr , said Mrs Holmes had been working for him for the last eight years . |
| 32 | And we and then we had been working for him for about ten or eleven years on this contract that he had for us . |
| 33 | Aware that she had been staring at him for rather a long time , she blinked and asked hastily , ‘ Did you sort out your business ? ’ |
| 34 | Riven blinked , and realised he had been staring at nothing for a long minute . |
| 35 | The rain had been beating on him for hours , on him and his comrades , not only here but wherever they had been when they met their deaths ; their clothes , their very hair , had a flattened , dead look . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | ‘ We 've been looking for you for ages , ’ he said . |
| 38 | We 've been looking for you for some months . |
| 39 | ‘ I 've been looking for you for days , now , ’ he said . |
| 40 | I 've been looking for you for years , but I only knew the name that she used to call you — Prince Charming . |
| 41 | ‘ I 've been looking for you for years — Prince Charming . ’ |
| 42 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 43 | Afterwards , the representative from the film company said , ‘ I 've been looking after him for two weeks and that 's the first time I 've seen his teeth … . ’ |
| 44 | I 've been listening to it for a while . |
| 45 | Yes , well she was all , so I 've been speaking to her for weeks when she did n't |
| 46 | They 'll let me in. — I 've been doing for her for years . ’ |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | I 've been staring at it for the past hour , waiting for it to start twitching around like a fat little worm on a fishing hook . |
| 49 | I 've been working with you for weeks . |
| 50 | Like the grave-diggers in Hamlet , they speculated on life : ‘ We 've been working on it for 25 years and we still have n't got round . |
| 51 | I 've got three people working on it right now and they 've been working on it for three years . |
| 52 | I 've been working on it for most of the week , so do n't make me mess it up . |
| 53 | Wew 've been working on it for a long time , polticals issues are nothing to do with us , we 're a commercial company |
| 54 | But we 've been talking about it for three four months . |
| 55 | ‘ Hullo , Pranger , I 've been waiting for you for years . ’ |
| 56 | " I 've been waiting for you for six hours . |
| 57 | ‘ I 've been waiting for you for the past three hours , pacing the corridors , wearing out the carpet . |
| 58 | We have been looking for her for three weeks . |
| 59 | You have been looking for it for eight years . |
| 60 | As the hon. Gentleman introduced the subject of colour of dress , I can only say that I have been listening to him for almost 18 years and I wish that he would sometimes change the colour of his tie . |