Example sentences of "we have been [v-ing] for the " in BNC.

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1 Because they 've come out with a report saying what we 've been saying for the
2 We 've been waiting for the knight in shining armour and then there is n't one .
3 Well , we 've been waiting for the protractors , we have n't been
4 ‘ What the ‘ ell do you think we 've been doin' for the last hour ? ’ asked Tommy .
5 As far as Kuwait is concerned we 'd like to see our country free again and this gives us the type of hope we have been wanting for the past six months , and I am sure for the people inside Kuwait — because I was there for about three weeks prior to the after the invasion I was there and I had to escape that country .
6 In times of exchange rate volatility , such as we have been experiencing for the past few years , most overseas buyers will want to be invoiced in their own currency and avoid any exchange risk .
7 It endorsed British industry 's achievements under the policies that we have been pursuing for the past 12 years , urged us to continue and build upon them in future and condemned utterly the sort of policies still advocated by the Labour party , which is stuck in a mind-set of the 1960s and 1970s .
8 I do n't know then what we have been doing for the last four weeks , when we first asked . ’
9 But most of us have been waiting for the results of the Concorde trial . ’
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