Example sentences of "what [pers pn] [vb base] [been] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Demelza , five , of Oakworth , West Yorks , said : ‘ She 's just what I 've been looking for . |
| 2 | ‘ What I 've been using for about the last five years are Seymour Duncan amps . |
| 3 | It 's just what I 've been hoping for ! |
| 4 | It beats changing nappies , which is what I 've been doing for the last 5 months . |
| 5 | that 's what I 've been waiting for that ten , ten do it again |
| 6 | One way to give ourselves new heart is to go where books and readers meet , and this is what I have been doing for the past year , working in secondary schools on research funded by the British Library . |
| 7 | ‘ This is what I have been waiting for to really make the hotel complete . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It only proves what I have been saying for some time that this was nothing more than an arranged marriage . |
| 9 | This is exactly what I have been saying for years . ’ |
| 10 | Is n't this what you 've been angling for ever since we crashed ? |
| 11 | If that 's what you 've been looking for you could have saved yourself the trouble . |
| 12 | Here 's what you 've been waiting for . |
| 13 | ‘ I want to know what you 've been doing for the past four days . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ What you 've been doing for the past four months ! |
| 15 | ‘ Let me see what you have been doing for us , ’ Charles said smiling widely beneath his white moustache . |
| 16 | It shows what we 've been saying for a long time , how fragile the markets in this recycling are , and I still stick to what I 've thought all along , that marketing comes first and making the product comes second . |
| 17 | Because they 've come out with a report saying what we 've been saying for the |
| 18 | Alright , fair enough , you accepted what we 've been saying for ages that we had to go to voluntary competitive tendering right . |
| 19 | It worked on mice and if it works on humans it will be just what we 've been waiting for . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's what we 've been working for all season , ’ said the delighted Whitham , who now has his sights set on the international scene for 1994 , either in Superbikes or the 500cc Grand Prix series . |
| 21 | If only one stopped to look at the shape of the garment and the stitch used , it might well be just what we have been looking for ! |
| 22 | ‘ By God , ’ he commented , ‘ that is what we have been looking for . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ The seven per cent bank base rate is very good news for the housing market and it is what we have been calling for . |
| 24 | ‘ The only way this is going to end is by political resolution and that is what we have been campaigning for . |
| 25 | Is this what we have been waiting for all these years , the answer that has so far eluded us ? |
| 26 | I do n't know then what we have been doing for the last four weeks , when we first asked . ’ |
| 27 | A game of tag ( see below ) may well be just the thing ; but if they 've just come in from the playground and that 's what they 've been doing for the last fifteen minutes , it would be a bit of a waste of time . |