Example sentences of "i [vb base] been [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been pushing for a long time but erm down here ? |
| 2 | I 've been saving for a long time with Alma |
| 3 | I 've been looking for a pair of doctor martins ca n't find any . |
| 4 | That is erm whenever people look for an analysis of something , here I 've been looking for an analysis of individuation , there 's a tendency to consider candidate analyses one by one , singulatum . |
| 5 | I 've been working for a company that constructs oil rigs and my job involved a lot of moving around . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It will be the third time I 've been measured for a blazer — but I missed out on the last two ( matches ) , ’ Lane added . |
| 7 | ‘ I feel I 've been taken for a fool . ’ |
| 8 | I 'm sending you a document I 've been keeping for a friend . |
| 9 | ‘ In the letter , Tristram said ‘ I 'm sending you a document I 've been keeping for a friend ’ . |
| 10 | It 's one of the delightful , I 've been recruiting for a long time and it 's it 's one of those erm delightful things to be able to say to people on the phone when they tell me they 're fifty or fifty four to say that 's not a problem . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been walking for a week . ’ |
| 12 | I 've been lurking for a couple of months now and I had a couple thoughts : |
| 13 | " Actually I think I 'm rather hungry — I 've been longing for a sandwich . |
| 14 | ‘ I have been saving for a while now , ’ Yanto began , ‘ and by tonight I shall have a hundred and fifty . |
| 15 | The woman , who is married and lives in Formby , Sefton , said : ‘ I have been trying for a child for 19 years . |
| 16 | I HAVE been treated for a particular medical condition since childhood . |
| 17 | I HAVE been treated for a particular medical condition since childhood . |
| 18 | Well , I agreed not to speak more than half an hour , but I see that I have been speaking for a little longer than forty-five minutes . |
| 19 | I have been looking for a recording ( with some difficulty ) , since not many shops are prepared to let me listen to different interpretations ) , indeed I purchased the Royal Opera House , Covent Garden/Marc Ermler offering only to be disappointed , all because I wanted CD sound quality to replace a home-made cassette of a live Radio 3 broadcast ( should I be telling you this ? ) |
| 20 | I have been waiting for a lift for four hours . |
| 21 | ‘ I have been waiting for a long time to get my hands on this one ’ , a review of Nicolson by Kingsley Amis began . |
| 22 | ‘ I have been working for a moment like this for nine years and finally it has arrived . |
| 23 | I have been working for a moment like this for nine years and finally it has arrived . |
| 24 | ‘ I have been dying for a toke all day . |