Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been asking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she has a hundred and forty and he 's gotten of cans for the his mum and Stewart 's been getting some cans for the shop for his granddad and I 've been asking for permission to go into the dump and get some for there . |
| 2 | Well that 's the question I 've been asking in committees er because I 'm I brought this up when they did nicely when they took all the trees away from down er Long Row on the High Street . |
| 3 | Roy Pointer : ‘ I have been asking for over ten years that there needs to be some bold plans , mission strategy , developed within the denominations and I have not been aware of any until now . |
| 4 | Frau Geller murmured something to her companion about it never happening to a woman unless she 'd been asking for it . |
| 5 | Erm it 's an exercise that you 've been asking for . |
| 6 | ‘ You 've been asking for this all night ! ’ |
| 7 | So she had been asking after him . |
| 8 | She 's been asking for you , she feels terribly guilty about the baby . ’ |
| 9 | But we 've been asking during this programme will the real John Major please stand up . |
| 10 | Now we 've been asking for this for years . |
| 11 | Speaking to The Art Newspaper , Drouot chairman Joel-Marie Millon said : ‘ We have been asking for this measure for years . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | All except , I can see , you know when they 've been asking for this money ? |
| 14 | Cos they have n't , they , they 've been asking for |
| 15 | He told me that he had been asking for them , to no avail . |
| 16 | Roman thanked the girl and asked her not to tell Mr Smith he had been asking for him . |
| 17 | And as Morse opened his passenger door , he stood for a while looking up at the Pole Star , and asking himself the question he had been asking for the past two hours : was there any way in which Downes could still have been the murderer after all ? |
| 18 | ‘ He 's been asking for you . ’ |