Example sentences of "[pron] 've [be] [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No he said , I ca n't give it back to you , you 're the person that I 've been looking for all my life . |
| 2 | I 've been looking for that all week ! |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been hired for some zany roles in this metropolis , and a few of them leaned towards the crooked . |
| 4 | So it 's really settling in and I 've been waiting for that to happen . ’ |
| 5 | I 've been waiting for that featherbrained bird to buzz off , ’ said the frog . |
| 6 | that 's what I 've been waiting for that ten , ten do it again |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been waiting for this , ’ says Iain . |
| 8 | I 've been waiting for this moment all week . |
| 9 | I 've been waiting for this for so long that I do n't think I can wait any longer — ’ |
| 10 | I 've been waiting for this chance since the days of the Witch of Endor . |
| 11 | I 've been waiting for this day all week . |
| 12 | Well of course I 've been saying for some time now , for some time , and I want to underline that , and I hope the government are listening that we 've had twenty thousand troops on our streets , we 've twelve thousand armed policemen on our streets , we have the strictest security laws in Western Europe , and none of these things have solved our problem . |
| 13 | I 've been recording for this |
| 14 | I 've been meaning for many weeks now to pass on 's French address , which filtered through to us in January — but of course you may already have had it from or heard from Janet yourself . |
| 15 | I 've been planning for this , too , over the last few days . |
| 16 | You might remember I 've been pressing for this for about eighteen bloody months . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been running for several years but only up to half marathon distance , ’ he says . |
| 18 | And as you 've seen with previous closures of our homes , the last three , is that we 've been able to utilize some of those resources to provide that shift in policy which has been very successful , and has , er , a process that we 've got has allayed people 's fears who 've been used for those residential home agreements . |
| 19 | That 's correct , and that the further down , I mean it says that er there is a er it says that the reason you 've had been the reason you 've been sent for this treatment is because of er a particular condition you 've got . |
| 20 | We 've also included in there , on item twelve , a net bill item , but does need to be recognized as an addition to your total spending , and that is , you 've been involved for many years with the health authority in arranging for the discharge of people from long-stay hospitals , and their absorption into the community , and each of these are a provider of many services , and daycare services to those particular individuals . |
| 21 | ‘ You 've been asking for this all night ! ’ |
| 22 | In the end , the quacks and medicine men were left with that strange , disembodied feeling you get when you 've been talking for several minutes to someone who is n't there . |
| 23 | She said we are not employed , we are , so I said oh , what 's the difference , you pay for that , you 've been paid for that , I said , because I promise you can , you can go . |
| 24 | We 've been trying for some time to employ as many players as possible during the winter , and this sponsorship means that it should be possible to take the worry of finding winter employment away from virtually all of them . |
| 25 | We 've been looking for this car as part of a murder investigation . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |
| 27 | Now we 've been asking for this for years . |
| 28 | No I did n't Stefan , we 've been blamed for some things in our time , have n't we but |
| 29 | I just said , goodness , I said we 've been waiting for this parcel since before Christmas and he says oh have you duck . |
| 30 | 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 . |