Example sentences of "we have [adv] been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've just been overcharged for this sandwich . |
| 2 | At last — the book we 've all been waiting for : The A-Z of Good Sex by SHE 's Dr Delvin . |
| 3 | We 've all been waiting for you for hours . ’ |
| 4 | Here are the selections we 've all been waiting for . |
| 5 | Yes , we had both been searching for years for a place like this , well away from urban life with some land and outbuildings . |
| 6 | But after a week or two it became evident that the various bridgeheads were being held and advances being made ( at what cost we did not then know , but could only guess at ) , and that this was in fact the big event we had all been waiting for . |
| 7 | Graham Sharpe , spokesman for Hills , who cut the second favourite , Double Dutch , from 7-1 to 6-1 and Royal Square from 16-1 to 10-1 yesterday , countered by saying : ‘ We have often been criticised for including in our ante-post lists horses that trainers later said were never intended runners . |
| 8 | We have occasionally been asked for more news of , and items of particular interest to , UCN and external graduates . |
| 9 | But we have always been looking for the cause of the extra 40 per cent . |
| 10 | That has always been the case , we have always been criticised for doing it but I find it outstandingly noticeable this year . |
| 11 | Perhaps Mr Paxman would at last achieve what we have always been waiting for him to do in one of his interviews : either fall fast asleep or choke to death on one of his own jokes . |
| 12 | But the downside is that Pinatubo — which had been dormant for 600 years — may have been the reason we have all been reaching for our brollies and in some cases sandbagging the front door over the past few weeks . |
| 13 | We have now been marching for more than four hours , it 's still very dark . |