Example sentences of "'ve [vb pp] [prep] for " in BNC.

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1 ‘ As nasty a thing as I 've looked at for many a day ’ , says one of the characters in Trollope 's Vicar of Bullhampton of the local Nonconformist chapel .
2 ‘ This is what I 've dreamt of for so long … ’
3 It 's what I planned for her — what I 've dreamed of for her all these years .
4 for example about , because you know one of the things that I 've thought about for quite a long time is the idea of encouraging voluntary organizations , concerned with the disability to get more interested in the arts and that 's obviously what Mecca is
5 For me this is the most exciting development of them all and it is something I 've believed in for many years .
6 Nobody sits at home unless they 've asked to for two or three days .
7 If you think I 'm letting go this prize gem I 've worked towards for all of my career , so that someone else on Verity magazine can put their name to it , you 've another — ’
8 Well erm take it from me that I 've worked for for major American corporates and one major British corporate and er there is still something that you may miss all right .
9 Comparing it with my friends who I 've worked with for years , who are most expensive sort of fair enough .
10 It is difficult to come to terms with the fact that I mean it 's people that you 've worked with for a week , at a time and I mean for three and a half years every second week you 're working with that guys in a confined space , you get to know them really well .
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