Example sentences of "[vb base] [been] [v-ing] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've been looking for this car as part of a murder investigation . |
| 2 | Register Office , handful of guests , parents optional , drink-up at couple 's house ( in which they 've been living for several years already ) . |
| 3 | We 've been trying for some time to employ as many players as possible during the winter , and this sponsorship means that it should be possible to take the worry of finding winter employment away from virtually all of them . |
| 4 | All except , I can see , you know when they 've been asking for this money ? |
| 5 | We 've been feeling for some time that our children are feeling that they 've been left alone , because er when they come to the temple they are too young to understand anything which is being explained from the stage , because er the speakers , or the preachers , have to cater for all the age groups and normally it 's for the , those who understand , already understand about Sikhism . |
| 6 | I 've been meaning for many weeks now to pass on 's French address , which filtered through to us in January — but of course you may already have had it from or heard from Janet yourself . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | In the end , the quacks and medicine men were left with that strange , disembodied feeling you get when you 've been talking for several minutes to someone who is n't there . |
| 9 | Well of course I 've been saying for some time now , for some time , and I want to underline that , and I hope the government are listening that we 've had twenty thousand troops on our streets , we 've twelve thousand armed policemen on our streets , we have the strictest security laws in Western Europe , and none of these things have solved our problem . |
| 10 | I 've been waiting for this day all week . |
| 11 | I just said , goodness , I said we 've been waiting for this parcel since before Christmas and he says oh have you duck . |
| 12 | I 've been waiting for this chance since the days of the Witch of Endor . |
| 13 | I 've been waiting for this moment all week . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been running for several years but only up to half marathon distance , ’ he says . |
| 15 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 16 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 17 | Nurses who have been nursing for some time are likely to have reached the stage where much of what they do has become automatic , that is , carried out without conscious thought or awareness . |
| 18 | But while the exact timing of this pattern of events was unusual , the return of the overall pattern in the early 1980s comes as little surprise to some researchers , who have been warning for several years that a new drought cycle was due . |
| 19 | Indications of Mr Mandela 's growing political stature in the eyes of the government have been accumulating for some time . |
| 20 | Division Two of this event is probably best left to Tom Jones 's Sadler 's Wells newcomer Alyakkh , about whom local work-watchers have been cooing for some time . |
| 21 | Some of this evidence comes from a corpus of anaphoric expressions from published material that we have been collecting for several years ( for a preliminary report see Garnham & Oakhill 1989 ) . |
| 22 | Divisional general manager David Howroyd commented : ‘ We are tremendously excited about this venture , which we have been considering for some time . |
| 23 | Also , we have been calling for many years for legislation to get rid of the offshore tax havens of the sort that Lord Duncan-Sandys ploughed money into from Lonrho about 1970 . |
| 24 | Environmental organizations have been calling for some time for the incorporation of environmental criteria into the various CAP support mechanisms . |
| 25 | There is some evidence that cervical cancer is more common in women who smoke cigarettes , especially heavy smokers or women who have been smoking for several years . |
| 26 | ‘ It only proves what I have been saying for some time that this was nothing more than an arranged marriage . |
| 27 | Colleagues in local government have been saying for some time that the Government have said that , at some point , the revenue collection services in local authorities would be privatised and would go out to tender . |
| 28 | I think I 'm making my point , I have been saying for some time now that given the fact that all that security has n't produced the results , the logic of that is dialogue , and when I see the opportunity as I saw it , of dialogue , direct dialogue with Mr Addams that could lead to a total cessation of this violence , I felt it was my duty to do so . |
| 29 | Much will depend on how it seeks to solve the long-running debate about merging income tax and the national insurance system ; whether benefits , including pensions , are to be universal or selective ; and , if selective , how the state is to deal with obligations to people who have been contributing for many years to what they were told was national insurance . |
| 30 | We , the readers of the narrative , have been waiting for this moment ever since the concluding words of the book of Numbers : ‘ These are the commandments and the ordinances which the Lord commanded by Moses to the people of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho . ’ |