Example sentences of "we have [adv] [been] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Pearse said : ‘ Do not think that we have not been fighting for the price of Midland shares that we have just received . |
| 2 | But we have always been looking for the cause of the extra 40 per cent . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We have now been marching for more than four hours , it 's still very dark . |