Example sentences of "i have been [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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1 | During that week I felt the Lord speak to me and I knew that this is what I 'd been looking for all my life and I decided to follow Jesus . |
2 | ‘ I did n't even know of them until later on in my teens , after I 'd been recording for several years . |
3 | I 'd been waiting for some opportunity to show off , to draw attention to myself . |
4 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
5 | I decided to go back to the village , to thank him for all his help , and to carry out a plan I had been considering for some time . |
6 | By the time I was twelve years old I had been thinking for some time about getting a bird of my own . |
7 | My flight path ended on a small ledge , my hands still grasping Olympus camera which I had been cradling for all my worth , regardless of the blows striking my body from every angle . |
8 | In late August I was finishing my day at the heart clinic , where I had been working for several months , when I decided that it was time to go . |
9 | I had been working for more than an hour and my wrists ached from the continuous chopping , but I was filled with an immense exhilaration . |
10 | No he said , I ca n't give it back to you , you 're the person that I 've been looking for all my life . |
11 | I 've been looking for that all week ! |
12 | ‘ I 've been hired for some zany roles in this metropolis , and a few of them leaned towards the crooked . |
13 | So it 's really settling in and I 've been waiting for that to happen . ’ |
14 | I 've been waiting for that featherbrained bird to buzz off , ’ said the frog . |
15 | that 's what I 've been waiting for that ten , ten do it again |
16 | ‘ I 've been waiting for this , ’ says Iain . |
17 | I 've been waiting for this moment all week . |
18 | I 've been waiting for this for so long that I do n't think I can wait any longer — ’ |
19 | I 've been waiting for this chance since the days of the Witch of Endor . |
20 | I 've been waiting for this day all week . |
21 | Well of course I 've been saying for some time now , for some time , and I want to underline that , and I hope the government are listening that we 've had twenty thousand troops on our streets , we 've twelve thousand armed policemen on our streets , we have the strictest security laws in Western Europe , and none of these things have solved our problem . |
22 | I 've been recording for this |
23 | I 've been meaning for many weeks now to pass on 's French address , which filtered through to us in January — but of course you may already have had it from or heard from Janet yourself . |
24 | I 've been planning for this , too , over the last few days . |
25 | You might remember I 've been pressing for this for about eighteen bloody months . |
26 | ‘ I 've been running for several years but only up to half marathon distance , ’ he says . |
27 | Speaking immediately after his election , John Young said : ‘ I am honoured and delighted to be elected Deputy Vice President and I see it as an opportunity to contribute to some of the serious issues facing the profession , and to represent a body with which I have been involved for much of my life . |
28 | I have been involved for many years with the channel tunnel project as a whole and its associated terminal at King 's Cross . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | my vocation — the work , ministry , roles I am called to and the gifts I have been given for these . |