Example sentences of "[vb base] been [v-ing] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No he said , I ca n't give it back to you , you 're the person that I 've been looking for all my life . |
| 2 | I 've been looking for that all week ! |
| 3 | Yeah I know but Marks and Spencers are a crap shop I do n't care if they go out of business they 're a rip off anyway , they 're so expensive , such crap clothes , they 're so common , that 's the word I 've been looking for common , that 's my word of the week I think er common common , does it not get to ya looking like everyone else ? |
| 4 | We 've been looking for this car as part of a murder investigation . |
| 5 | ‘ But I am a bit disappointed that while we 've been appealing for new directors nobody from the town has come forward . ’ |
| 6 | Register Office , handful of guests , parents optional , drink-up at couple 's house ( in which they 've been living for several years already ) . |
| 7 | And I 've been living for seven years ! |
| 8 | Everything they have in that shop is better than the one you 've been wearing for ten years . |
| 9 | ‘ Lucky devil , I 've been trying for eight years and still have n't cracked it yet . ’ |
| 10 | We 've been trying for some time to employ as many players as possible during the winter , and this sponsorship means that it should be possible to take the worry of finding winter employment away from virtually all of them . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been trying for forty years and the margin of error 's still about eighty per cent . ’ |
| 12 | The single parent building a home on supplementary benefit does n't have the tools acquired by workers who 've been earning for twenty or forty years . |
| 13 | I 've been cooking for 7 years now , including my school , my cookery school . |
| 14 | Now we 've been asking for this for years . |
| 15 | ‘ You 've been asking for this all night ! ’ |
| 16 | All except , I can see , you know when they 've been asking for this money ? |
| 17 | Well obviously there is change and one of the things that we 've been doing for International Women 's celebrations during March , because we 're having a whole month of activities , is |
| 18 | You might remember I 've been pressing for this for about eighteen bloody months . |
| 19 | she said ‘ We 've been going for two months with very long hours . ’ |
| 20 | Er , we 've been going for twenty six years er , and we now manage around about three thousand properties and are building er and selling around about seven hundred properties a year for , for rent and low cost home ownership . |
| 21 | They 've been going for twenty years and er there 's er school is very much , I would have put you straight into schools |
| 22 | ‘ Take my word for it , I 've been going for 30 years since the well was a bucket in a hole in the ground , and there is plenty of water , ’ she said . |
| 23 | We 've been feeling for some time that our children are feeling that they 've been left alone , because er when they come to the temple they are too young to understand anything which is being explained from the stage , because er the speakers , or the preachers , have to cater for all the age groups and normally it 's for the , those who understand , already understand about Sikhism . |
| 24 | I 've been planning for this , too , over the last few days . |
| 25 | I 've been meaning for many weeks now to pass on 's French address , which filtered through to us in January — but of course you may already have had it from or heard from Janet yourself . |
| 26 | I can do it , but I 've been driving for two and a half years |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . |
| 28 | I mean , dammit all , Charles has been working for 40 years and I 've been working for 22 ’ ) . |
| 29 | In the end , the quacks and medicine men were left with that strange , disembodied feeling you get when you 've been talking for several minutes to someone who is n't there . |
| 30 | I 've been recording for this |