Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] for [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Americans have been pressing for much more money . |
| 2 | I 've been looking for that all week ! |
| 3 | ‘ The irony is that I did n't realise till Christmas , when I knew I loved you , that it was someone like you I should have been looking for all these years since . ’ |
| 4 | He had found the one he had been searching for all those years — the one wavering on the brink of eternal damnation . |
| 5 | The wood at the back of the painting was deeply scored with a dagger as if someone had been searching for some secret crevice or compartment . |
| 6 | I 've been waiting for that featherbrained bird to buzz off , ’ said the frog . |
| 7 | Is this what we have been waiting for all these years , the answer that has so far eluded us ? |
| 8 | They have been waiting for these choice morsels — dessert . |
| 9 | He had been speaking for some five minutes or more with force and conviction , carried away by the things which concerned him greatly . |
| 10 | ‘ You 've been asking for this all night ! ’ |
| 11 | Richard , of course , had been preparing for some such move . |
| 12 | No individual can sell or receive commission on investment business , unless he has been working for that same Company for at least five continuous years . |
| 13 | SEL has been working for some two years on producing French versions of GEC 's technical specifications — an enormous project . |