Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | At last — the book we 've all been waiting for : The A-Z of Good Sex by SHE 's Dr Delvin . |
| 2 | We 've all been waiting for you for hours . ’ |
| 3 | Here are the selections we 've all been waiting for . |
| 4 | and now the moment you 've all been waiting for … if of course you entered our Christmas cracker competition … the answers and the winners |
| 5 | They 've all been waiting for more than 2 years for plastic surgery at Stoke Mandeville hospital near Aylesbury . |
| 6 | BERKSHIRE BBC ( , and ) proudly announce the release of the video you 've all been waiting for — ‘ THE WILDE SHOW ’ . |
| 7 | But you 've only been skiing for a short while . |
| 8 | like I 've just said , I 've just been speaking for a whole lesson , my voice is just I 've got to talk to you to explain what we 're doing , so let's quietly |
| 9 | We 've just been overcharged for this sandwich . |
| 10 | ‘ Tommy , you 've just been cautioned for the murder of … ‘ |
| 11 | I sang down the Bottom Club , so when I went down the next week the manager said I 've just been waiting for you , I 've been waiting for you to come in he said so he said , look the group ca n't come he said , will you sing ? |
| 12 | They 've already been walking for several weeks , many carrying their possessions in their school bags . |
| 13 | they , they 've always been known for marvellous skin have n't they , the erm |
| 14 | ‘ There have been certain views about Nigel all the time and I 've sometimes been criticised for not playing him . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've certainly been criticised for that . |
| 16 | I 've never been forgiven for that . ’ |
| 17 | This is important because specific mechanisms have since been developed for subsidizing private operations in the inner area , but it should also be noted that all inner-area housing sites were already designated as housing land and there were no ‘ change of use ’ profits to be made on them . |
| 18 | The books have mostly been notified for publication this week . |
| 19 | The shape and musculature of a dolphin do not alone account for its speed and swimming efficiency , and biologists have long been searching for features of the skin which may explain the mysteries of the dolphin 's swimming prowess . |
| 20 | US giants such as Microsoft have a strong commitment to multimedia CD-ROM publishing have long been searching for suitable properties . |
| 21 | Economists have long been calling for safety regulations to be subject to cost-benefit analysis . |
| 22 | ‘ The Old Halls , Farm Houses and Cottages of the North of England have long been admired for their elegant pecularity reg=peculiarity of design , and , aided by accidental additions and delapidations , and by combinations of the richest woods , and back-grounds of rocks and mountains , are , in their kind , finer objects for study than any others to be met with in the island . |
| 23 | Electronic systems have long been used for data , but as increasing volumes of information and records are also created and stored electronically issues are raised about the management of this information . |
| 24 | Electronic systems have long been used for data , but as increasing volumes of information and records are also created and stored electronically issues are raised about the management of this information . |
| 25 | The present Type 22s , such as HMS Broadsword and Brilliant , which shot down several Argentinian aircraft with Seawolf missiles , have long been criticised for their puny armament . |
| 26 | In industrialised countries , such rudimentary amenities as piped water and sanitation have long been taken for granted and there has been a virtual elimination of major infectious diseases over the past century . |
| 27 | But the downside is that Pinatubo — which had been dormant for 600 years — may have been the reason we have all been reaching for our brollies and in some cases sandbagging the front door over the past few weeks . |
| 28 | The biggest change has come within the ranks of the SDLP where Martin Bradley , Mark Durkan , Kathleen McCloskey , Margaret McCartney and Wilfred White have all been elected for the first time and Pat Ramsey makes a return to the Council chamber having reclaimed the seat he lost in 1989 . |
| 29 | Other sectors , such as oil refining and petrochemicals , have been pretty depressed so contractors used to serving those industries have all been looking for business in the same markets as ourselves . |
| 30 | Oils extracted from soya beans , sunflowers , peanuts , rapeseed , palms , castor beans , eucalyptus , squash and coconut have all been tested for use as fuels and lubricating oils over recent years . |