Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] for [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You might remember I 've been pressing for this for about eighteen bloody months . |
| 2 | He 'd been looking for that for ages . |
| 3 | ‘ He may have also been searching for some of Hopkins 's papers ? ’ |
| 4 | I can say without embarrassment that I have been training for this for a long time , that I have learned to breathe the rarefied air , that I now know when to stand still and when to move forward , when to attack and when to retreat , when to leave a problem to resolve itself and when to go on working at it till the solution emerges . |
| 5 | I 've been waiting for this for so long that I do n't think I can wait any longer — ’ |
| 6 | Now we 've been asking for this for years . |
| 7 | Jagatan raised himself on one elbow , and Burun guessed that he had been drinking for most of the afternoon . |
| 8 | When Ellcock announced his retirement from first-class cricket at the age of 216 after Middlesex 's pre-season tour to Portugal , he was finally admitting defeat in a struggle to overcome back problems he has been fighting for much of his 10-year career . |
| 9 | In terms of ideology it is exactly what the FMLN has been fighting for these past seven years . |