Example sentences of "'ve been [v-ing] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | We 've been looking for this car as part of a murder investigation . |
2 | ‘ But I am a bit disappointed that while we 've been appealing for new directors nobody from the town has come forward . ’ |
3 | Register Office , handful of guests , parents optional , drink-up at couple 's house ( in which they 've been living for several years already ) . |
4 | And I 've been living for seven years ! |
5 | Everything they have in that shop is better than the one you 've been wearing for ten years . |
6 | ‘ Lucky devil , I 've been trying for eight years and still have n't cracked it yet . ’ |
7 | 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 . |
8 | ‘ I 've been trying for forty years and the margin of error 's still about eighty per cent . ’ |
9 | I 've been cooking for 7 years now , including my school , my cookery school . |
10 | All except , I can see , you know when they 've been asking for this money ? |
11 | Well obviously there is change and one of the things that we 've been doing for International Women 's celebrations during March , because we 're having a whole month of activities , is |
12 | she said ‘ We 've been going for two months with very long hours . ’ |
13 | They 've been going for twenty years and er there 's er school is very much , I would have put you straight into schools |
14 | ‘ Take my word for it , I 've been going for 30 years since the well was a bucket in a hole in the ground , and there is plenty of water , ’ she said . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | ‘ 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | ‘ I 've been waiting for two hours . ’ |
21 | Like here in the north of Australia , I 've been waiting for two days for the light I need for a shot of some valleys . |
22 | I 've been waiting for this day all week . |
23 | I just said , goodness , I said we 've been waiting for this parcel since before Christmas and he says oh have you duck . |
24 | I 've been waiting for this chance since the days of the Witch of Endor . |
25 | I 've been waiting for this moment all week . |
26 | I 've been waiting for forty years for it |
27 | Oxford ca n't grumble they 've been winning for 15 years … its Cambridge 's turn but Oxford will be back on top next year |
28 | I 've been playing for ten years and never hit a hole in one before — now I 've hit two . ’ |
29 | ‘ I 've been running for several years but only up to half marathon distance , ’ he says . |