Example sentences of "we have [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as Kuwait is concerned we 'd like to see our country free again and this gives us the type of hope we have been wanting for the past six months , and I am sure for the people inside Kuwait — because I was there for about three weeks prior to the after the invasion I was there and I had to escape that country . |
| 2 | ‘ The seven per cent bank base rate is very good news for the housing market and it is what we have been calling for . |
| 3 | Also , we have been calling for many years for legislation to get rid of the offshore tax havens of the sort that Lord Duncan-Sandys ploughed money into from Lonrho about 1970 . |
| 4 | ‘ The scrapping of the tax is something we have been screaming for , ’ says David Austin of Rover dealers H.L Austin and Son . |
| 5 | In times of exchange rate volatility , such as we have been experiencing for the past few years , most overseas buyers will want to be invoiced in their own currency and avoid any exchange risk . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Scientific director Gordon McVie said : ‘ We have been looking for a link between diet and cancer for 20 years now and this could be it . |
| 8 | Ron Van Rapphorst of San Diego police said : ‘ We have located the vehicle we have been looking for . |
| 9 | If only one stopped to look at the shape of the garment and the stitch used , it might well be just what we have been looking for ! |
| 10 | We have been looking for her for three weeks . |
| 11 | ‘ By God , ’ he commented , ‘ that is what we have been looking for . ’ |
| 12 | Area manager Beth Robinson says : ‘ Our business in Finaghy has steadily increased year by year and for some time we have been looking for premises , in a prominent location , which would give us the space we now need . |
| 13 | We have been struggling for years with an inadequate meat hygiene inspection system and we need , as soon as possible , to replace it with a centralised system that will guarantee high standards and uniform costs . |
| 14 | Some of this evidence comes from a corpus of anaphoric expressions from published material that we have been collecting for several years ( for a preliminary report see Garnham & Oakhill 1989 ) . |
| 15 | Divisional general manager David Howroyd commented : ‘ We are tremendously excited about this venture , which we have been considering for some time . |
| 16 | We have been pushing for more effective action from the NIO for years and it is utter nonsense to say otherwise , ’ he said . |
| 17 | It endorsed British industry 's achievements under the policies that we have been pursuing for the past 12 years , urged us to continue and build upon them in future and condemned utterly the sort of policies still advocated by the Labour party , which is stuck in a mind-set of the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 18 | We have been trying for years , centuries , to establish this and it is only because of help from outside that we have been able to do it now . |
| 19 | Murray said : ‘ We have been trying for months to sign the right sort of player to replace Joe Allon . |
| 20 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 21 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 22 | Speaking to The Art Newspaper , Drouot chairman Joel-Marie Millon said : ‘ We have been asking for this measure for years . |
| 23 | ‘ We have been asking for this specialist help at the Memorial hospital for a long time now , but there has been no movement from the health authority over this matter . ’ |
| 24 | Truth to tell , we have been waiting for it since Genesis 12 . |
| 25 | Is this what we have been waiting for all these years , the answer that has so far eluded us ? |
| 26 | ‘ This is the boost we have been waiting for , ’ says sales director Malcolm Prior . |
| 27 | NOW , Creggan , is the time we have been waiting for . |
| 28 | We have been waiting for nearly fifty years . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ For many years we have been waiting for a mighty star to appear in the heavens and now it has . |
| 30 | We must , surely , eventually get to recovery , but we have been waiting for it for a long time . |