Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No-one has been executed for three years , human rights groups said . |
| 2 | During that week I felt the Lord speak to me and I knew that this is what I 'd been looking for all my life and I decided to follow Jesus . |
| 3 | ‘ I did n't even know of them until later on in my teens , after I 'd been recording for several years . |
| 4 | I 'd been waiting for some opportunity to show off , to draw attention to myself . |
| 5 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 6 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |
| 7 | I decided to go back to the village , to thank him for all his help , and to carry out a plan I had been considering for some time . |
| 8 | Intending to be a priest of the Church of England , I lost my faith , slowly but painfully , and at the end of the summer left Oxford and the house in Norham Gardens in which I had been living for two years and in which , by a curious turn of fortune , my office now is . |
| 9 | I took a drink from one of the twenty-four plastic gallon containers which I had been collecting for two years . |
| 10 | By the time I was twelve years old I had been thinking for some time about getting a bird of my own . |
| 11 | My flight path ended on a small ledge , my hands still grasping Olympus camera which I had been cradling for all my worth , regardless of the blows striking my body from every angle . |
| 12 | In late August I was finishing my day at the heart clinic , where I had been working for several months , when I decided that it was time to go . |
| 13 | I had been working for more than an hour and my wrists ached from the continuous chopping , but I was filled with an immense exhilaration . |
| 14 | I 've been cooking for 7 years now , including my school , my cookery school . |
| 15 | ‘ Lucky devil , I 've been trying for eight years and still have n't cracked it yet . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been trying for forty years and the margin of error 's still about eighty per cent . ’ |
| 17 | Get a bit of sympathy cos I 've been asked for eight by you . |
| 18 | I did mention that er I 'm a retired tax inspector and I 'm very long retired , I 've been retired for thirteen years , thoroughly enjoying it , hope you too but your first questions w must be what the devil am I doing thirteen years retired tax inspector talking to you on a technical subject , why on earth ca n't you get the real thing ? |
| 19 | And I 've been living for seven years ! |
| 20 | No he said , I ca n't give it back to you , you 're the person that I 've been looking for all my life . |
| 21 | I 've been looking for that all week ! |
| 22 | Yeah I know but Marks and Spencers are a crap shop I do n't care if they go out of business they 're a rip off anyway , they 're so expensive , such crap clothes , they 're so common , that 's the word I 've been looking for common , that 's my word of the week I think er common common , does it not get to ya looking like everyone else ? |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been hired for some zany roles in this metropolis , and a few of them leaned towards the crooked . |
| 24 | Like here in the north of Australia , I 've been waiting for two days for the light I need for a shot of some valleys . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been waiting for two hours . ’ |
| 26 | So it 's really settling in and I 've been waiting for that to happen . ’ |
| 27 | I 've been waiting for that featherbrained bird to buzz off , ’ said the frog . |
| 28 | that 's what I 've been waiting for that ten , ten do it again |
| 29 | I 've been waiting for four or five games , so it 's a bit of a relief . ’ |
| 30 | I 've been waiting for forty years for it |