Example sentences of "[pron] we [verb] be [verb] for " in BNC.

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1 Towards which we 've been striving for weeks .
2 A small hole was dug , the cigarette buried , songs sung over the grave and then the whole procession wended its w ? y round the field four times singing the funeral march from Aida , which we had been practising for a week .
3 Divisional general manager David Howroyd commented : ‘ We are tremendously excited about this venture , which we have been considering for some time .
4 ‘ This is something we 've been doing for years .
5 The end of Act I is a recognition scene ; a recognition by the Marschallin of the kind we all experience when we realize that something we cherished is gone for ever .
6 ‘ The scrapping of the tax is something we have been screaming for , ’ says David Austin of Rover dealers H.L Austin and Son .
7 The one we 've been waiting for ever since we found the Worm . ’
8 You are the one we have been waiting for . ’
9 ‘ But that 's what we 've been sent for ; to fetch you back .
10 It shows what we 've been saying for a long time , how fragile the markets in this recycling are , and I still stick to what I 've thought all along , that marketing comes first and making the product comes second .
11 Because they 've come out with a report saying what we 've been saying for the
12 Alright , fair enough , you accepted what we 've been saying for ages that we had to go to voluntary competitive tendering right .
13 It worked on mice and if it works on humans it will be just what we 've been waiting for .
14 ‘ It 's what we 've been working for all season , ’ said the delighted Whitham , who now has his sights set on the international scene for 1994 , either in Superbikes or the 500cc Grand Prix series .
15 If only one stopped to look at the shape of the garment and the stitch used , it might well be just what we have been looking for !
16 ‘ By God , ’ he commented , ‘ that is what we have been looking for . ’
17 ‘ The seven per cent bank base rate is very good news for the housing market and it is what we have been calling for .
18 ‘ The only way this is going to end is by political resolution and that is what we have been campaigning for .
19 Is this what we have been waiting for all these years , the answer that has so far eluded us ?
20 I do n't know then what we have been doing for the last four weeks , when we first asked . ’
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