Example sentences of "'ve be [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then obviously I 've been looking for the wrong qualities in my secretaries . ’ |
| 2 | I 've been saving for a long time with Alma |
| 3 | ‘ As a matter of fact I 've been living for the past two years with a wonderful man . |
| 4 | It was found in a garden where they 've been digging for the past six weeks . |
| 5 | like if you ever work in a children 's ward you can always tell the children that 've been hospitalised for a great length of time cos you can do anything with them |
| 6 | I 've been pushing for a long time but erm down here ? |
| 7 | They 've been calling for an alternative route to the A 421 since World War Two . |
| 8 | Aggie 's friend knows about him , but , as he said , they ca n't pin anything on to him ; they 've been tryin' for a long time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ I want to know what you 've been doing for the past four days . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ What you 've been doing for the past four months ! |
| 12 | The other thing we do sort of every now and then , and next time will be Easter , we actually have some people in costume who actually reoccupy the house over Waster weekend in this case as as the household of William and they 've been coming for a long time now and they 've got set into the set into their roles quite well . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Rory , have you heard a single word I 've been saying for the past five mintues ? ’ |