Example sentences of "we [verb] been [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 'd been told for years how generous they would be , but when we challenged them , they had nothing for us . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've been struggling for years . |
| 3 | Towards which we 've been striving for weeks . |
| 4 | We 've been looking for McCloy to lead us to his hired assassin . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We 've been talking for hours . |
| 8 | Alright , fair enough , you accepted what we 've been saying for ages that we had to go to voluntary competitive tendering right . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ We 've been preparing for war for ages . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ This is something we 've been doing for years . |
| 13 | And we 've been campaigning for years to try and get these laws changed , no-one seems to have been listening very much and that 's why we 've adopted this more upfront direct challenge to the law . |
| 14 | ‘ We 've been waiting for ages , ’ said Angalo . |
| 15 | We had been looking for tasks that were : |
| 16 | Area manager Beth Robinson says : ‘ Our business in Finaghy has steadily increased year by year and for some time we have been looking for premises , in a prominent location , which would give us the space we now need . |
| 17 | We have been struggling for years with an inadequate meat hygiene inspection system and we need , as soon as possible , to replace it with a centralised system that will guarantee high standards and uniform costs . |
| 18 | ‘ We have been punished for schoolboy errors in defence and we can not afford similar slips against Hartlepool . |
| 19 | We have been trying for years , centuries , to establish this and it is only because of help from outside that we have been able to do it now . |
| 20 | Murray said : ‘ We have been trying for months to sign the right sort of player to replace Joe Allon . |
| 21 | We have been pestered for men to protect several houses , and as these people have such influence , we can not refuse . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ We have been waiting for grants but there has been some debate about whether croquet is a sport because of the pace it 's played at . ’ |
| 23 | Many of our clients now embrace the concept of Total Quality Management which simply formalises something else that we have been doing for years . |