Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb base] been [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charlotte and Alexander have been waiting for years . |
| 2 | But parents throughout Northern Ireland have been campaigning for the new test to be revamped or at least postponed until pupils have had time to get to grips with the new format . |
| 3 | Maybe this is what England have been looking for , a team that looks symmetrical on the scorecard , at least . |
| 4 | England have been waiting for Chris Lewis to establish himself as a genuine allrounder since he made his debut in 1990 . |
| 5 | Authorities ranging from North Yorkshire to Dorset have been pressing for funds to convert existing boys ' attendance centres into mixed facilities . |
| 6 | Great local artists like Gilberto Gil have been trying for years to promote their country 's music , but ( as with the African-music boom ) it has taken the combination of an enthusiastic American super-star and cosmopolitan French audiences to really make the change . |
| 7 | Since the publication in 1982 of the Barclay Report , Social Workers : Their Role and Tasks , many social services departments in the UK have been searching for ways of putting into practice ideas about community-based social work . |
| 8 | Pat herself has been very ill and people in QP have been praying for her . |
| 9 | Community care is what SSDs have been doing for decades . |
| 10 | While women in the West have been fighting for the right to be accepted as builders , train drivers , engineers and scientists . |
| 11 | Everton have been looking for a target man to bring out the best in Mo Johnston and Peter Beardsley . |
| 12 | People in Upton on Severn have been campaigning for a month against plans to open a treatment centre for twenty six child abusers in a country house near their village . |
| 13 | The Lemonheads have been touring for about three months , first in America and now in Europe , and this has been the first real glitch they 've encountered . |
| 14 | Thunderbirds have been going for over half a century … and with the next generation Its they 're set to continue for another twenty five years Fab . |