Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] have been [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | My ‘ heavenly brother ’ was not a Sasse boy , but from the primary school in nearby Mutengene mission where I had been staying for a few days . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Nothing of her true nature , not even — and here Pavel had been holding his breath at the back of the Border Control 's interrogation room — where she 'd been living for the past two years . |
| 4 | No one who had ever stood on the edge of that abyss where she had been teetering for so long , that held hunger and cold , sickness that could not be treated for lack of a shilling , children one could afford neither to raise nor to bury , would have a harsh word to say . |
| 5 | I found him in the Grange garden , where he had been waiting for news all night . |
| 6 | No but I mean , I do n't mean wh I do n't mean where he 's been working for the corporation , I mean before when he 's had these various jobs and they 've finished and he 's had , you know , the job 's finished and they 've had to go somewhere . |
| 7 | Then , towards the end of January , people noticed that at least one boar was coming right up to the village in its nighttime foraging : there were tracks in the snow and patches of scratched earth where it had been digging for roots . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She said : ‘ All that has held us together for years is that I 've been working for you . |
| 10 | Well I knew it was but it the fact that it had a nice easy switch in the base was something that I 'd been looking for . |
| 11 | When I replied that I had been fighting for the extra 200,000 I had managed to achieve , I was remonstrated with for having put the business at risk . |
| 12 | I can say without embarrassment that I have been training for this for a long time , that I have learned to breathe the rarefied air , that I now know when to stand still and when to move forward , when to attack and when to retreat , when to leave a problem to resolve itself and when to go on working at it till the solution emerges . |
| 13 | Well , I agreed not to speak more than half an hour , but I see that I have been speaking for a little longer than forty-five minutes . |
| 14 | ‘ So I 've been grieving for him . ’ |
| 15 | Her use of ‘ weakness ’ sounded belittling , precisely the effect that she had been aiming for . |
| 16 | It was good to know that all her veterinary training had come to her aid in spite of the fact that she had been working for two years with small animals only . |
| 17 | It was her nail scissors that she 'd been searching for days , lost under the hearthrug and pressing into her hip ; and the cry was also her virginity , small and bewildered and gone . |
| 18 | A READER writes that she has been trying for weeks to find the outcome of the Prime Minister 's ‘ Taking Stock ’ exercise . |
| 19 | She says that she 's been flying for three years . |
| 20 | Erm it 's an exercise that you 've been asking for . |
| 21 | The , the direct debits that you 've been paying for years but you 're not sure where they go to , that sort of thing ? |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 24 | The trouble was , once you 'd been driving for that long , you drove right through your tiredness and out into a dreamland where only the road was moving . |
| 25 | Something that we 've been looking for for months and months ! |
| 26 | And what this actually came out on was this overall health and safety assessment that we 've been doing for G P erm , we 've actually just filed that overall group focused on the the branches as a potential issue and I know it 's been very su su successful on a number of times . |
| 27 | Well obviously there is change and one of the things that we 've been doing for International Women 's celebrations during March , because we 're having a whole month of activities , is |
| 28 | But I mean , one of the things that we 've got on with at the moment is that we 've been saying for ages , you 've got to get your you 've got to get us involved at design stage . |
| 29 | I knew that I always overestimated the time these outings took , but I was certain that we 'd been going for over two hours , and still we were crashing on . |
| 30 | One fishing vessel that we had been watching for a long period had more than one narrow escape from detection by British controls , but was finally turned back by Dutch customs patrols shortly after leaving a Continental port with a cargo of immigrants on board bound for the UK . |