Example sentences of "been [v-ing] for [adj] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The Americans have been pressing for much more money . |
2 | I 've been looking for that all week ! |
3 | ‘ The irony is that I did n't realise till Christmas , when I knew I loved you , that it was someone like you I should have been looking for all these years since . ’ |
4 | He had found the one he had been searching for all those years — the one wavering on the brink of eternal damnation . |
5 | Is this what we have been waiting for all these years , the answer that has so far eluded us ? |
6 | ‘ You 've been asking for this all night ! ’ |
7 | Richard , of course , had been preparing for some such move . |
8 | No individual can sell or receive commission on investment business , unless he has been working for that same Company for at least five continuous years . |