Example sentences of "we [vb base] been [v-ing] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've been looking for you for ages , ’ he said . |
| 2 | " We 've been looking for you , " said Hazel . |
| 3 | We 've been looking for you for some months . |
| 4 | We 've been looking for you everywhere for the past hour ! |
| 5 | ‘ We 've been looking for you these five days , and never a sign . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We 've been waiting for you . |
| 8 | come on then we 've been waiting for you to come , come on |
| 9 | We have been looking for her for three weeks . |
| 10 | And the team will cry out for joy as well , because we were created for this community , and in a way we have been looking for it all our lives . |
| 11 | Truth to tell , we have been waiting for it since Genesis 12 . |
| 12 | We must , surely , eventually get to recovery , but we have been waiting for it for a long time . |