Example sentences of "we [verb] [adv] been [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | At last — the book we 've all been waiting for : The A-Z of Good Sex by SHE 's Dr Delvin . |
| 2 | We 've all been waiting for you for hours . ’ |
| 3 | Here are the selections we 've all been waiting for . |
| 4 | Yes , we had both been searching for years for a place like this , well away from urban life with some land and outbuildings . |
| 5 | But after a week or two it became evident that the various bridgeheads were being held and advances being made ( at what cost we did not then know , but could only guess at ) , and that this was in fact the big event we had all been waiting for . |
| 6 | But we have always been looking for the cause of the extra 40 per cent . |
| 7 | Perhaps Mr Paxman would at last achieve what we have always been waiting for him to do in one of his interviews : either fall fast asleep or choke to death on one of his own jokes . |
| 8 | But the downside is that Pinatubo — which had been dormant for 600 years — may have been the reason we have all been reaching for our brollies and in some cases sandbagging the front door over the past few weeks . |
| 9 | We have now been marching for more than four hours , it 's still very dark . |