Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] for it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frau Geller murmured something to her companion about it never happening to a woman unless she 'd been asking for it . |
| 2 | But no one else would have been looking for it . |
| 3 | The horses had been waiting for it . |
| 4 | Retirement is one of the few moments which a politician can choose with deliberation and Baldwin had been preparing for it for months , if not for years . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been looking for it for years , but I 'm not in charge of promotion and the people senior to me in my department are some of the most brilliant minds in England , and elsewhere for that matter . ’ |
| 6 | Well we 've been planning for it for something like eleven months , with a small planning team , but at its height , just before Conference , there were a total of seventy officers involved . |
| 7 | They 've been waiting for it . |
| 8 | I 've been waiting for it coming through you know . |
| 9 | ‘ Man , I 've been longing for it … |
| 10 | And the team will cry out for joy as well , because we were created for this community , and in a way we have been looking for it all our lives . |
| 11 | You have been looking for it for eight years . |
| 12 | Truth to tell , we have been waiting for it since Genesis 12 . |
| 13 | We must , surely , eventually get to recovery , but we have been waiting for it for a long time . |
| 14 | Well Dennis er Roger 's been doing for it for Leeds North West have n't you ? |
| 15 | Do you know Dave I read erm we there 's a magazine called Good Housekeeping and it 's been going for it had been going for seventy years , last year it started in nineteen twenty one , women 's magazine , very good one and they had a sort of seventieth birthday issue |
| 16 | He 's been working for it for years . |