Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [v-ing] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been searching for news of you all over Chelsea , Eaton Square , Cadogan Gardens … not a sign of your people anywhere . ’ |
| 2 | I 've been working for Radio Skerne for about six years now . |
| 3 | Do you know I 've been dieting for week and I feel |
| 4 | And she has a hundred and forty and he 's gotten of cans for the his mum and Stewart 's been getting some cans for the shop for his granddad and I 've been asking for permission to go into the dump and get some for there . |
| 5 | She 'd been longing for peace and quiet so that she could get on with her carving , and , now that she had it , was standing here like a loon ! |
| 6 | She had been heading for trouble by ever imagining that this man could be touched like any normal human being . |
| 7 | All afternoon she had been waiting for evidence of the racing rumour-machine at work . |
| 8 | When you are ready , the person you have been yearning for will enter the meadow , and approach you . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ We 've been preparing for war for ages . |
| 12 | Maurice Hope held a similar view , though he favoured social rather than genetic factors : ‘ Black people are natural fighters ; they 've been fighting for survival and they 've been in that condition all their lives . |
| 13 | Theory 1 — Many in the West felt that the presence of police governments in the West did not represent what the people of Europe had fought for — they had been fighting for freedom of speech and democracy and the communist presence meant they had failed . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He has been looking for pollen , the other standby of people who study ancient plants . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , Burlington , Massachusetts-based Object Design Inc will ship the Object Access software it has been developing for Progress 4GL in June . |
| 17 | I found him in the Grange garden , where he had been waiting for news all night . |
| 18 | Of course he had been working for Hut 6 from the day of his arrival at Bletchley and his duties soon became important . |