Example sentences of "been [v-ing] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Authorities ranging from North Yorkshire to Dorset have been pressing for funds to convert existing boys ' attendance centres into mixed facilities . |
| 32 | She did n't know if they had been driving for minutes or days . |
| 33 | ‘ He must have been driving for hours . ’ |
| 34 | He 'd been driving for days , he 'd forgotten how many , and he was tired of the white lines painted down the middle of the highway , he was tired to the centre of his bones . |
| 35 | Driving for cash er well an indication of how strongly we , we 've been driving for cash is that er the reduction i in er operating cash flow is less than the reduction in profit . |
| 36 | You might have been driving for years by going over the top of the wheel as a lot of lorry drivers do . |
| 37 | And she passed with flying colours She 's been driving for years apparently but she had to take a test . |
| 38 | The Moslems , supporters of the Democratic Action Party ( based in Bosnia-Hercegovina ) , were protesting at what they claimed to be repression of the rights of Moslems in the Sanjak and Serbian efforts to drive them out ( Sanjak Moslem militants had been agitating for autonomy and closer links with Bosnia-Hercegovina , where Moslems were the largest national group ) . |
| 39 | The last few weeks , indeed the last year , had been appalling for Britain , and as Churchill said — ad nauseam , in Erica 's view — Britain stood alone . |
| 40 | ‘ This thing has been smouldering for years and now it 's finally broken through . |
| 41 | Lesley saw it more as a letting-off of repressed energy : ‘ I think this thing has been smouldering for years and now it 's finally broken through . |
| 42 | Repeated doses of bad news from the front generated mounting criticism of government incompetence ; ministerial confidence was visibly shaken ; and discontent which had been smouldering for years burst into flame . |
| 43 | A lot of people started handing in pellet guns and antique muzzle-loaders they 've been keeping for years without a licence . |
| 44 | I have been listening for hours as our politicians tell us what they intend to do if elected , yet I have not heard one mention of the disabled . |
| 45 | How long have you been looking for work ? |
| 46 | The idea of them having to bring fortnightly evidence that they have been looking for work when in the majority of cases they are not even permitted onto premises to ask for a job suggests an obvious indifference on the part of the policy makers . |
| 47 | There was no comfort either in Mr Ben Ali 's speech for the other opposition parties which , after their poor results in the elections , had been looking for government help . |
| 48 | We 've been looking for McCloy to lead us to his hired assassin . |
| 49 | The Fed 's policy-making Open Market Committee met last Wednesday to set monetary growth goals for the second quarter and since then punters have been looking for signs of a massive rate cut . |
| 50 | We had been looking for tasks that were : |
| 51 | The man , who said his name was Dave , told detectives about a friend who 'd been looking for Carol shortly before she died . |
| 52 | He told officers that his friend had been looking for Carol in Bristol on the Friday before she died . |
| 53 | Plato was not alone in believing that some kind of physical change must occur in the brain when information is stored in memory , and neuroscientists have been looking for Plato 's ‘ wax tablet ’ without success since the beginning of this century . |
| 54 | Mr Stein would have been looking for chefs , receptionists , back-room staff , chambermaids , gardeners , laundry workers , bar staff , waiters … ’ |
| 55 | ‘ The editor we 've been looking for will also have to be able to cope with Alice Cooper dropping into our offices , plus other heavy metal groups who 've been into the heavy metal jewellery shop , the Great Frog which is in Carnaby Street beneath our offices . |
| 56 | Area manager Beth Robinson says : ‘ Our business in Finaghy has steadily increased year by year and for some time we have been looking for premises , in a prominent location , which would give us the space we now need . |
| 57 | If he had really only been looking for shelter and a place to doss down for the night , why look further than this ? |
| 58 | He must have been looking for bathroom . |
| 59 | I have been looking for ages for a Victorian birdbath , without much success . |
| 60 | Arms salesman ; okay the Avenger the Equaliser the Total Fucking Nutter went for the legs too but still , and the editor spiked , and the rapist-lenient judge raped and the pornographer poisoned and stroked and the man who was so callous about the bloodshed in the Iran/Iraq war forced to watch his penned animals die like cattle like soldiers like cattle and then bled to death in his own private fountains of blood and the businessman who put profits before safety and not only helped kill a thousand people but then tried to get out of paying the survivors and dependants any compensation gets his own gas explosion — blevey is the technical term apparently — and fuck me whoever he is ( assuming he is a he ) , he 's got a sense of humour or at least irony why he 's produced what 's almost a snuff video effectively a snuff video if you mean brain-death anyway it 's the closest anyone will admit to ever having seen or found one even the Obscene Pubs Squad who 've been looking for years but although everybody assumes they exist nobody 's ever seen one until old gorilla man comes along and just makes his own , specifically to warn off any other porn merchants thinking of dealing in snuff ! |