Example sentences of "we [verb] [be] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ But that 's what we 've been sent for ; to fetch you back . |
| 32 | ‘ But we 've been separated for four years , ’ she reminded him in a more reasonable tone . |
| 33 | We 've been bugged for 10 years by a reputation for extremism and division , which we 're just getting rid of . |
| 34 | ‘ We 've been isolated for so long and we all thought we were so bloody good but now we have to accept the reality that we are not . ’ |
| 35 | Driving for cash er well an indication of how strongly we , we 've been driving for cash is that er the reduction i in er operating cash flow is less than the reduction in profit . |
| 36 | ‘ We 've been criticised for saying that all children under five should have books in the home . |
| 37 | Drummer Chris Cooper explained : ‘ We 've been criticised for being shoddy live so we decided to do something about . |
| 38 | We 've been criticised for bringing him in so late but we tried to bring him in earlier . |
| 39 | ‘ It 's what we 've been working for all season , ’ said the delighted Whitham , who now has his sights set on the international scene for 1994 , either in Superbikes or the 500cc Grand Prix series . |
| 40 | Because we 've been talking for a while so had time for it to evaporate . |
| 41 | We 've been talking for hours . |
| 42 | We 've been talking for about fifteen minutes . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | It shows what we 've been saying for a long time , how fragile the markets in this recycling are , and I still stick to what I 've thought all along , that marketing comes first and making the product comes second . |
| 45 | Because they 've come out with a report saying what we 've been saying for the |
| 46 | Alright , fair enough , you accepted what we 've been saying for ages that we had to go to voluntary competitive tendering right . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | Now we 've been asking for this for years . |
| 49 | ‘ We 've been preparing for war for ages . |
| 50 | no I love camping , we 've been camping for about oh more than thirty years |
| 51 | No I did n't Stefan , we 've been blamed for some things in our time , have n't we but |
| 52 | she said ‘ We 've been going for two months with very long hours . ’ |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | ‘ This is something we 've been doing for years . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | 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 |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | We 've been waiting for the knight in shining armour and then there is n't one . |
| 60 | The one we 've been waiting for ever since we found the Worm . ’ |