Example sentences of "we [verb] [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | Because they 've come out with a report saying what we 've been saying for the |
| 32 | Alright , fair enough , you accepted what we 've been saying for ages that we had to go to voluntary competitive tendering right . |
| 33 | But I mean , one of the things that we 've got on with at the moment is that we 've been saying for ages , you 've got to get your you 've got to get us involved at design stage . |
| 34 | Now we 've been asking for this for years . |
| 35 | ‘ We 've been preparing for war for ages . |
| 36 | no I love camping , we 've been camping for about oh more than thirty years |
| 37 | she said ‘ We 've been going for two months with very long hours . ’ |
| 38 | Er , we 've been going for twenty six years er , and we now manage around about three thousand properties and are building er and selling around about seven hundred properties a year for , for rent and low cost home ownership . |
| 39 | Well , we 've been going for , I should think , about eighteen months in hospitals in Oxford , looking at ways in which we can give better information to consultants to help them to be more in charge of their own destiny . |
| 40 | ‘ This is something we 've been doing for years . |
| 41 | And what this actually came out on was this overall health and safety assessment that we 've been doing for G P erm , we 've actually just filed that overall group focused on the the branches as a potential issue and I know it 's been very su su successful on a number of times . |
| 42 | Well obviously there is change and one of the things that we 've been doing for International Women 's celebrations during March , because we 're having a whole month of activities , is |
| 43 | And we 've been campaigning for years to try and get these laws changed , no-one seems to have been listening very much and that 's why we 've adopted this more upfront direct challenge to the law . |
| 44 | We 've been waiting for the knight in shining armour and then there is n't one . |
| 45 | The one we 've been waiting for ever since we found the Worm . ’ |
| 46 | ‘ It 's the moment we 've been waiting for ! ’ |
| 47 | ‘ We 've been waiting for ages , ’ said Angalo . |
| 48 | I would love to see Réaux on stage in one of the great Weill parts — ‘ My ship ’ is good enough to suggest that here , at last , perhaps , is the Liza Elliott we 've been waiting for . |
| 49 | We 've been waiting for you . |
| 50 | it 's the moment we 've been waiting for . |
| 51 | It worked on mice and if it works on humans it will be just what we 've been waiting for . |
| 52 | come on then we 've been waiting for you to come , come on |
| 53 | I just said , goodness , I said we 've been waiting for this parcel since before Christmas and he says oh have you duck . |
| 54 | Well , we 've been waiting for the protractors , we have n't been |
| 55 | We 've been feeling for some time that our children are feeling that they 've been left alone , because er when they come to the temple they are too young to understand anything which is being explained from the stage , because er the speakers , or the preachers , have to cater for all the age groups and normally it 's for the , those who understand , already understand about Sikhism . |
| 56 | ‘ We 've been playing for our survival for a year and a half now so we are used to it , ’ he said . |
| 57 | ‘ What the ‘ ell do you think we 've been doin' for the last hour ? ’ asked Tommy . |
| 58 | One fishing vessel that we had been watching for a long period had more than one narrow escape from detection by British controls , but was finally turned back by Dutch customs patrols shortly after leaving a Continental port with a cargo of immigrants on board bound for the UK . |
| 59 | The biggest problem and disappointment was that the international rig count continued downwards and that was where we had been hoping for increased sales and increased market share looking into this year and into the last part of last year . |
| 60 | " We had been hoping for something more dramatic " , one said . |