Example sentences of "[verb] been [v-ing] for [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The business lobby has been squealing for everything from accelerated depreciation allowances to a Business Development Board to grant cheap loans . |
| 2 | If the employee has been working for you for up to eight weeks and does not have a linking letter or a Leaver 's statement , phone your Social Security office and ask if the start of the PIW you are dealing with links back to a claim to a Social Security benefit . |
| 3 | The kennel maid remarked , ‘ There 's something queer about that animal , she has been waiting for you since early this morning . |
| 4 | Living Dead and Terminator slippers — people had been queuing for them for God 's sake — were being returned unused to the shops and credit notes cashed in for balls of wool and packets of scraperboard . |
| 5 | It appears that , following her leaving Ontario , the lawyers who had been acting for her in Ontario were removed from the record . |
| 6 | By a coincidence the letter had been waiting for her on her dressing-table when she had got in from the pictures the previous night , just after she had been thinking and talking of Hilda . |
| 7 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
| 8 | Gravier 's wife and child and parents had been waiting for him at Acapulco . |
| 9 | Although the citadel had been rebuilt by the Emperor Gia Long in 1802 , its palaces and temples had been designed and constructed faithfully in the style favoured by China 's Ming emperors and at the entrance to the Dai Noi , the Imperial City itself , Tran Van Hieu had been waiting for him in the shadow of the Ngo Mon , the " Bull Gate " roofed in gold tiles like the Gate of Heavenly Peace in Peking . |
| 10 | Mr Davidson 's father , Robert Snr , said Mrs Holmes had been working for him for the last eight years . |
| 11 | And we and then we had been working for him for about ten or eleven years on this contract that he had for us . |
| 12 | Roy had been working for him since three weeks after his wedding , and he hated it . |
| 13 | Retirement is one of the few moments which a politician can choose with deliberation and Baldwin had been preparing for it for months , if not for years . |
| 14 | ‘ We 've been looking for you for ages , ’ he said . |
| 15 | We 've been looking for you for some months . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been looking for you for days , now , ’ he said . |
| 17 | I 've been looking for you for years , but I only knew the name that she used to call you — Prince Charming . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been looking for you for years — Prince Charming . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been looking for it for years , but I 'm not in charge of promotion and the people senior to me in my department are some of the most brilliant minds in England , and elsewhere for that matter . ’ |
| 20 | They 'll let me in. — I 've been doing for her for years . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ Hullo , Pranger , I 've been waiting for you for years . ’ |
| 23 | " I 've been waiting for you for six hours . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been waiting for you for the past three hours , pacing the corridors , wearing out the carpet . |
| 25 | I 've been longing for something with a bit of bite to it . ’ |
| 26 | We have been looking for her for three weeks . |
| 27 | You have been looking for it for eight years . |
| 28 | We must , surely , eventually get to recovery , but we have been waiting for it for a long time . |
| 29 | Truth to tell , we have been waiting for it since Genesis 12 . |
| 30 | erm Has that been a concern of unions , or has it been other sorts of organisations that have been pressing for them over the years ? |