Example sentences of "we have be [v-ing] for [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | We 've been looking for someone who can cope with the 24-hours-a-day rock ‘ n ’ roll lifestyle . |
2 | ‘ We 've been looking for you for ages , ’ he said . |
3 | " We 've been looking for you , " said Hazel . |
4 | We 've been looking for you for some months . |
5 | We 've been looking for you everywhere for the past hour ! |
6 | ‘ We 've been looking for you these five days , and never a sign . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | We 've been waiting for you . |
9 | come on then we 've been waiting for you to come , come on |
10 | ‘ We 've been playing for our survival for a year and a half now so we are used to it , ’ he said . |
11 | " We had been hoping for something more dramatic " , one said . |
12 | And we and then we had been working for him for about ten or eleven years on this contract that he had for us . |
13 | We have been looking for her for three weeks . |
14 | And the team will cry out for joy as well , because we were created for this community , and in a way we have been looking for it all our lives . |
15 | Truth to tell , we have been waiting for it since Genesis 12 . |
16 | We must , surely , eventually get to recovery , but we have been waiting for it for a long time . |