Example sentences of "you have [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you have been teaching for as long as I have you 'll realise that it 's no good at all being kind to children . |
| 2 | If you have been hunting for the perfect diet for a very long time it will be difficult to stop , actually to believe that good weight control can be established without resorting to one special diet that you go on ( and then , and this is the snag , come off again ) . |
| 3 | The main argument or basic responses you have been searching for are short statements which represent a stance or attitude to the question . |
| 4 | You have been searching for me . |
| 5 | You have been looking for it for eight years . |
| 6 | ‘ Let me see what you have been doing for us , ’ Charles said smiling widely beneath his white moustache . |
| 7 | After you have been walking for about ten minutes take your pulse . |
| 8 | When you are ready , the person you have been yearning for will enter the meadow , and approach you . |
| 9 | ‘ Your uncle Orrin tells us that you have been missing for months , not travelling with the Parslows as we thought , and when you surface again you have the gall to question us . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Listen , Piper , first , you have been sleeping for the past hour , and second , I think the Germans are counter attacking . |
| 11 | Imagine that you have been studying for 20 years for a qualification that will change your life , or waiting the same length of time to hear about a job you have applied for , the only job you have ever really wanted . |
| 12 | You learn by doing , because you have been talking for a long time . |