Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] [pers pn] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not too deep or strong for horses but a tree had been felled across it for foot-passengers . |
| 2 | She 'd been looking into it for Ken anyway — as I told you . |
| 3 | ‘ We 've been looking for you for ages , ’ he said . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been looking for you for days , now , ’ he said . |
| 5 | I 've been looking for you for years , but I only knew the name that she used to call you — Prince Charming . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been looking for you for years — Prince Charming . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been looking for it for years , but I 'm not in charge of promotion and the people senior to me in my department are some of the most brilliant minds in England , and elsewhere for that matter . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I think that 's the kindest thing that 's been said to me for ages , Ben dear . |
| 9 | They had been living in it for years . |
| 10 | Nevertheless I would claim that the religious life as a phenomenon has insights which can throw light on the question , because the nuns have been wrestling with it for centuries . |
| 11 | We 've all been waiting for you for hours . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Hullo , Pranger , I 've been waiting for you for years . ’ |
| 13 | Prince Alexis — who 's been staying with us for ages — asked me to marry him , and I said no . |
| 14 | Yes , well she was all , so I 've been speaking to her for weeks when she did n't |
| 15 | Ken told the story as though it had been scripted for him for Hancock 's Half Hour . |
| 16 | A later commentator says that the plan " had been cherished by them for years " and it could very well have its roots in the Caledonian Press experiment , which had ended a mere eight years earlier . |
| 17 | They 'll let me in. — I 've been doing for her for years . ’ |
| 18 | Well Dennis er Roger 's been doing for it for Leeds North West have n't you ? |
| 19 | Phyllis Aldworth , 64 , of Mable Avenue , Shildon , has been surviving on them for years . |
| 20 | They 'd been known to us for years as a couple of minor police informers , dabblers in espionage who never come up with anything much . ’ |
| 21 | Retirement is one of the few moments which a politician can choose with deliberation and Baldwin had been preparing for it for months , if not for years . |
| 22 | I ought to have guessed , she had been purring over me for days , giving me arch looks . |
| 23 | As the place was really his gig we could n't use it without him We 'd been talking about it for ages — and Bernie was always badgering us about it — but we 'd not really done anything about it . |
| 24 | ‘ Please tell them , ’ he said , ‘ a warrant has been issued against them for manslaughter . ’ |
| 25 | It 's been screaming at me for days , but I just could n't see it . |
| 26 | And it should happen that it 's God 's will that you have been sent to us for protection and education . |
| 27 | Living Dead and Terminator slippers — people had been queuing for them for God 's sake — were being returned unused to the shops and credit notes cashed in for balls of wool and packets of scraperboard . |
| 28 | And it makes sense : Ivor 's been married to her for years — he 'd need a good , strong reason to go . ’ |
| 29 | Also please note that any Training Fund applications submitted within the last four weeks for courses organised by the Training Division have already been forwarded to them for attention . |
| 30 | I 've been working with you for weeks . |