Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | I have been waiting for some time for hon. Members to refer to my apparel and I am duly flattered . |
| 32 | He said : ‘ I have been waiting for the last three years for an opportunity like this and I see it as the right time in my career to take it . |
| 33 | ‘ This is what I have been waiting for to really make the hotel complete . ’ |
| 34 | ‘ Father , I have been waiting for you all afternoon . ’ |
| 35 | I have been playing for about 13 years now , and doing so for pleasure . |
| 36 | I have been recording for ages . |
| 37 | You ca n't imagine how I have been aching for you … |
| 38 | ‘ I have been working for a moment like this for nine years and finally it has arrived . |
| 39 | In France , where I have been working for two years , the government understands the need for cultural things . |
| 40 | During the time I have been working for the playgroup I have come into contact with about 200 children . |
| 41 | ‘ I have been working for 19 months and was on the dole for five years before that , ’ he said . |
| 42 | I have been working for a moment like this for nine years and finally it has arrived . |
| 43 | ‘ I have been dying for a toke all day . |
| 44 | Roy Pointer : ‘ I have been asking for over ten years that there needs to be some bold plans , mission strategy , developed within the denominations and I have not been aware of any until now . |
| 45 | When you have been teaching for as long as I have you 'll realise that it 's no good at all being kind to children . |
| 46 | If you have been hunting for the perfect diet for a very long time it will be difficult to stop , actually to believe that good weight control can be established without resorting to one special diet that you go on ( and then , and this is the snag , come off again ) . |
| 47 | The main argument or basic responses you have been searching for are short statements which represent a stance or attitude to the question . |
| 48 | You have been searching for me . |
| 49 | You have been looking for it for eight years . |
| 50 | ‘ Let me see what you have been doing for us , ’ Charles said smiling widely beneath his white moustache . |
| 51 | After you have been walking for about ten minutes take your pulse . |
| 52 | When you are ready , the person you have been yearning for will enter the meadow , and approach you . |
| 53 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 54 | ‘ Listen , Piper , first , you have been sleeping for the past hour , and second , I think the Germans are counter attacking . |
| 55 | Imagine that you have been studying for 20 years for a qualification that will change your life , or waiting the same length of time to hear about a job you have applied for , the only job you have ever really wanted . |
| 56 | You learn by doing , because you have been talking for a long time . |
| 57 | As far as Kuwait is concerned we 'd like to see our country free again and this gives us the type of hope we have been wanting for the past six months , and I am sure for the people inside Kuwait — because I was there for about three weeks prior to the after the invasion I was there and I had to escape that country . |
| 58 | ‘ The seven per cent bank base rate is very good news for the housing market and it is what we have been calling for . |
| 59 | Also , we have been calling for many years for legislation to get rid of the offshore tax havens of the sort that Lord Duncan-Sandys ploughed money into from Lonrho about 1970 . |
| 60 | ‘ The scrapping of the tax is something we have been screaming for , ’ says David Austin of Rover dealers H.L Austin and Son . |