Example sentences of "we 've [been] [v-ing] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've been struggling for years . |
| 2 | Towards which we 've been striving for weeks . |
| 3 | We 've been looking for McCloy to lead us to his hired assassin . |
| 4 | ‘ The editor we 've been looking for will also have to be able to cope with Alice Cooper dropping into our offices , plus other heavy metal groups who 've been into the heavy metal jewellery shop , the Great Frog which is in Carnaby Street beneath our offices . |
| 5 | Driving for cash er well an indication of how strongly we , we 've been driving for cash is that er the reduction i in er operating cash flow is less than the reduction in profit . |
| 6 | We 've been talking for hours . |
| 7 | Alright , fair enough , you accepted what we 've been saying for ages that we had to go to voluntary competitive tendering right . |
| 8 | But I mean , one of the things that we 've got on with at the moment is that we 've been saying for ages , you 've got to get your you 've got to get us involved at design stage . |
| 9 | ‘ We 've been preparing for war for ages . |
| 10 | And what this actually came out on was this overall health and safety assessment that we 've been doing for G P erm , we 've actually just filed that overall group focused on the the branches as a potential issue and I know it 's been very su su successful on a number of times . |
| 11 | ‘ This is something we 've been doing for years . |
| 12 | And we 've been campaigning for years to try and get these laws changed , no-one seems to have been listening very much and that 's why we 've adopted this more upfront direct challenge to the law . |
| 13 | ‘ We 've been waiting for ages , ’ said Angalo . |