Example sentences of "have [adv] been [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | BERKSHIRE BBC ( , and ) proudly announce the release of the video you 've all been waiting for — ‘ THE WILDE SHOW ’ . |
| 32 | But you 've only been skiing for a short while . |
| 33 | But after a week or two it became evident that the various bridgeheads were being held and advances being made ( at what cost we did not then know , but could only guess at ) , and that this was in fact the big event we had all been waiting for . |
| 34 | ‘ We will want to know if the warning lights had only been flashing for 10 seconds and not 30 . ’ |
| 35 | It seemed that Belov had only been waiting for her to ask . |
| 36 | He had obviously been searching for appropriate words of censure during the silence . |
| 37 | The snow had obviously been falling for hours , probably while she was still watching The Blue Angel . |
| 38 | The NUWW and the LNA had long been campaigning for legislation to raise the age of consent to eighteen and to enforce more stringent penalties against procurers and brothel-keepers . |
| 39 | For years before that , however , football enthusiasts in Glasgow had long been agitating for an international match against the deaf footballers of England , without success . |
| 40 | And yet the end of the Second World War was such a celebration of the defeat of the fascist enemy that there was a failure to grasp the fact that the universal Enemy had merely been rehearsing for Armageddon . |
| 41 | The panic buying forced the Moscow city council on May 28 to announce a temporary ban on the sale of food and consumer goods in city shops to anyone unable to produce a Moscow residence permit ( such restrictions had already been operating for many weeks in Leningrad and a number of other cities ) . |
| 42 | Although the Hervert Laming letter of 13 December 1992 created its own furore about what should be written down , senior managers had already been debating for six months about whether care managers should bluff users and relatives about the money available for them . |
| 43 | To some degree they had already been catering for children with special needs . |
| 44 | The Wall Street crash of 1929 was severe enough , by itself , to reduce wealth in the American economy substantially , and thus to cut personal and business spending ( which had already been falling for two months ) . |
| 45 | By the time human beings first came into being , several million years ago , life had already been evolving for three and a half billion years . |
| 46 | Spare Rib — the UK 's first feminist magazine — had already been going for five years . |
| 47 | The station was overflowing with badly wounded who had already been waiting for treatment for several days . |
| 48 | By the time that came along I had already been playing for some time . |
| 49 | Rumours had already been circulating for some time in the movie world that Madonna , whose big new movie will be Body Of Evidence , was discussing a new film with Sr Almodovar . |
| 50 | 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 |
| 51 | 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 ? |
| 52 | They 've already been walking for several weeks , many carrying their possessions in their school bags . |
| 53 | Those army commanders who had still been hoping for a coup realized that all such hope was now lost . |
| 54 | Jake fingered the paperweight idly as he continued , ‘ It had probably been developing for a few days . |
| 55 | Opposition parties had also been pressing for an early poll , especially in view of the poor performance by ANAP in local elections since 1989 [ see p. 36528 ] . |
| 56 | He had also been talking for ages to Broadman , and Ymor had seen a piece of paper change hands . |
| 57 | Yes , we had both been searching for years for a place like this , well away from urban life with some land and outbuildings . |
| 58 | The Crick Committee , which had been appointed in 1961 and reported on A Higher Award in Business Studies in 1964 , had originally been looking for an equivalent of the DipTech , but had waited for the Robbins Report before issuing its recommendations . |
| 59 | But although it had now been raining for several hours , there was not the least damp or cold either in the deep runs or in the many burrows that they passed . |
| 60 | The repatriation of Yugoslavs had now been proceeding for a week . |