Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [been] [v-ing] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been searching for ages . ’ |
| 2 | I 've been searching for news of you all over Chelsea , Eaton Square , Cadogan Gardens … not a sign of your people anywhere . ’ |
| 3 | and I 've been trying for ages but there just has n't been any cos |
| 4 | I 've been trying for days , though , I 'm coming over tomorrow . |
| 5 | I 've been waiting for ages . ’ |
| 6 | I 've been waiting for fags since ten o'clock this morning . |
| 7 | I 've been waiting for years for someone to do that . ’ |
| 8 | I 've been working for Radio Skerne for about six years now . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been travelling for hours . |
| 10 | I 've been lying for hours in the dark and thinking . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been knocking for ages and all ye do is laugh up at me . ’ |
| 12 | Do you know I 've been dieting for week and I feel |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As all the world knows I 'm now 61 so it follows I 've been playing for yonks , interrupted only by a broken leg and two children . |
| 15 | I have been listening for hours as our politicians tell us what they intend to do if elected , yet I have not heard one mention of the disabled . |
| 16 | For instance having retired to this lovely English village , and assembled my wits and memories to compile this narrative , I have had the satisfaction recently of discovering the original meaning of three common expressions which I have been using for years . |
| 17 | I have been looking for ages for a Victorian birdbath , without much success . |
| 18 | This is exactly what I have been saying for years . ’ |
| 19 | I have been arguing for institutions of higher education to do justice to the idea of a culture of critical discourse ( as Gouldner puts it ) . |
| 20 | I have been recording for ages . |
| 21 | yes you 've been promising for weeks |
| 22 | ‘ You 've been sleeping for hours , so I thought you might be about ready to get up . ’ |
| 23 | The , the direct debits that you 've been paying for years but you 're not sure where they go to , that sort of thing ? |
| 24 | When you are ready , the person you have been yearning for will enter the meadow , and approach you . |
| 25 | ‘ Your uncle Orrin tells us that you have been missing for months , not travelling with the Parslows as we thought , and when you surface again you have the gall to question us . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ We 've been struggling for years . |
| 27 | Towards which we 've been striving for weeks . |
| 28 | We 've been looking for McCloy to lead us to his hired assassin . |
| 29 | ‘ The editor we 've been looking for will also have to be able to cope with Alice Cooper dropping into our offices , plus other heavy metal groups who 've been into the heavy metal jewellery shop , the Great Frog which is in Carnaby Street beneath our offices . |
| 30 | 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 . |