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 .
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