Example sentences of "what [pers pn] [vb past] been [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | During that week I felt the Lord speak to me and I knew that this is what I 'd been looking for all my life and I decided to follow Jesus . |
| 2 | I did not tell him that his imitation of the French was far more like what I had been seeing for the past year . |
| 3 | Joe invited us out to lunch , which was what I had been hoping for , because we were both more or less on our uppers . |
| 4 | That was just what I had been doing for the past four months innocent of impending restrictions . |
| 5 | That was what she had been waiting for , that unguarded , unforced , totally natural reaction of a lowly apprentice who sees her work unfold like a fairytale . |
| 6 | And that , then , was what she had been waiting for . |
| 7 | This was what she had been waiting for since she had first met him though she had never admitted it to herself until now . |
| 8 | At last she found what she 'd been looking for . |
| 9 | Well , he told Mummy , and now she 's furious , because apparently it 's what she 'd been hoping for . |
| 10 | What we decided to do , because I thought that 's what you 'd been pressing for , was to show that as the equivalent affect of , okay , you think you 're making these profits but you 're actually enjoying services that you 're not paying for . |
| 11 | ‘ I asked what you 'd been doing for the last five years … ’ |
| 12 | That 's what they 'd been fighting for for twenty years . |
| 13 | In June , Roland found what he had been looking for . |
| 14 | The books and papers were wrapped in a silk cloth and , smiling , Craig knew he had found what he had been looking for . |
| 15 | It was what he had been waiting for . |
| 16 | In his paper , Beveridge repeated what he had been saying for some time , namely , that there was no general breakdown of the labour-market , instead there was an overstocking of individual trades which was due to ‘ inadequate labour information and local hindrances to labour mobility ’ . |
| 17 | The Raubvogel had just entered the short tunnel that led out of the cavern , when Katze finally found what he 'd been looking for . |
| 18 | It was in the second of the rooms behind a damp stack of spare mattresses that he found what he 'd been hoping for . |
| 19 | But that was what he 'd been doing for the past several minutes . |