Example sentences of "been [verb] for this [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The previous half-year figures have been adjusted for this change in presentation . |
| 2 | Good God , Teddy , the US arms industry has been praying for this war for years . |
| 3 | In New York , visitors to the Studio Museum have been prepared for this recasting of Lam by a retrospective of his works on paper at the Americas Society , which travels to Barcelona 's Fundacio ‘ La Caixa ’ on 21 January . |
| 4 | We 've been looking for this car as part of a murder investigation . |
| 5 | I 've been waiting for this chance since the days of the Witch of Endor . |
| 6 | It was as if she had been waiting for this moment for four years or more . |
| 7 | She 'd been waiting for this moment for so long , and all she could do , now that it had finally arrived , was think the worst of him , instead of simply being happy to see him again . |
| 8 | It 's quite rare to get the equipment that 's been used for this type of activity . |
| 9 | At present , no minister could answer a parliamentary question by saying that whatever his views on the matter , responsibility had been allocated for this function to Assistant Secretary Brown and it was up to that official to take whatever course of action he thought best to achieve the set objectives . |
| 10 | Speaking to The Art Newspaper , Drouot chairman Joel-Marie Millon said : ‘ We have been asking for this measure for years . |
| 11 | McTear 's version of Garvey 's system has been adapted for this purpose with the addition of one category — the potential request for specification — which our data seemed to demand . |
| 12 | A particularly influential way of studying them was outlined by Ninian Smart , one of the first members of the Shap Working Party which has been campaigning for this approach since the early 1970s : religions each have at least six dimensions : doctrinal , mythological , ethical , ritual , experiential and social . |
| 13 | You will see that several large pads have been trimmed for this reason on our working example layout for the UV Exposure Timer . |