Example sentences of "[pron] have been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because if you do , you can not fail to be deeply impressed by the very many ways in which high-fibre foods can help you to slim , and to come to the conclusion that the F-Plan is that major slimming breakthrough everyone has been seeking for so long . |
| 2 | It 's their last song , the one everyone has been waiting for , it 's their biggest hit — it 's a hysterical cock-up . |
| 3 | No-one has been executed for three years , human rights groups said . |
| 4 | See I 've been coming for years with mouth ulcers . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd been expecting for ages to hear you two were getting engaged . |
| 6 | I 'd been caddying for Ralph Moffatt on the pro circuit and got him through the pre-qualifier at Fairhaven , so I told him I 'd be caddying for him in the Open as I 'd heard nothing from Jack . |
| 7 | I 'd been thinking for a long time that I 'd welcome the chance to talk with a psychiatrist , although not about captivity — I felt I 'd worked my way through that enough — but about my past and how I came to be the person I was when I was taken hostage . |
| 8 | Chris had insisted that if he was going to go out there , then so was I. I 'd been searching for a way out all night , but nothing convincing came to mind . |
| 9 | Ever since I started consultancy work in politics , I 'd been pushing for the use of this simple invention — a British one — but it was n't until after President Reagan used it in his address to the Houses of Parliament that our politicians felt it was worthy of notice . |
| 10 | I 'd been loading for him , loading the t coal into tubs and tramming them . |
| 11 | So , off he went and came back one day saying that he thought he had the song I 'd been looking for . |
| 12 | During that week I felt the Lord speak to me and I knew that this is what I 'd been looking for all my life and I decided to follow Jesus . |
| 13 | Equally the use of ebony seemed a good choice ; I 'd been looking for an excuse to make something in ebony for ages , anyway ! |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd been looking for a fairly young product which had a range of merchandise to allow a shop to stand on its own two feet . |
| 15 | Well I knew it was but it the fact that it had a nice easy switch in the base was something that I 'd been looking for . |
| 16 | But now I 've been drug-free for over a year erm but I 'd been trying for a few year before that and had nay managed to succeed . |
| 17 | No , not just one day , as I said , I 'd been trying for a few |
| 18 | Lucille Walker had n't brought me clear over to Hollywood just to tell me I 'd been played for a sucker . |
| 19 | But it was n't like I 'd imagined — except for the long silences when I 'd been hoping for laughs . |
| 20 | ‘ You sound as if I 'd been gone for a few hours and forgot to leave you a note . ’ |
| 21 | Some items I 'd been holding for him . |
| 22 | All I wanted was to be left alone to get on with the job I 'd been trained for and loved . |
| 23 | Look , ’ and she opened her handbag and reached inside , ‘ this was one I 'd been saving for him — ’ Her voice cracked and she began to cry . |
| 24 | For one thing Harlow is the sort of town which I 'd been agitating for both before and after the war whenever I was speaking on behalf of the Labour Party both at street corners and at public meetings on the type of life we vis envisaged for a normal person in the land . |
| 25 | ‘ I did n't even know of them until later on in my teens , after I 'd been recording for several years . |
| 26 | I 'd been waiting for some opportunity to show off , to draw attention to myself . |
| 27 | The moment I 'd been waiting for so long had arrived . |
| 28 | I mean the doctor was no help and I 'd been waiting for over a coupla months to get into the Clinic for a detox . |
| 29 | I also had a look at the fact that Toby might well be — or have been — the man I 'd been waiting for , though God knows I 'd never have recognized him in a million years if we had n't happened , entirely by accident , to stumble into each other 's arms . |
| 30 | Actually , I 'd been waiting for somebody else but I just happened to be on hand and I could n't just stand there and watch her struggle with all those boxes , suitcases , typewriters , bicycles , stereo systems and so on . |