Example sentences of "[verb] been [v-ing] for this " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Good God , Teddy , the US arms industry has been praying for this war for years . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 5 | In his own way , Ted had been building for this moment too . |
| 6 | As everyone turned to look at him , Jinny realized that he had been waiting for this moment all the time he was explaining his plan . |
| 7 | It was as if she had been waiting for this moment for four years or more . |
| 8 | Dowd had been waiting for this man , Matthias McGann , to say his piece . |
| 9 | Alec d'Urberville , who had been waiting for this moment , appeared at her side . |
| 10 | Tuesday — could it really be only Tuesday when now every cell of her body was alight with a feedback intelligence that told her she had been waiting for this man all her life … |
| 11 | We 've been looking for this car as part of a murder investigation . |
| 12 | Now we 've been asking for this for years . |
| 13 | ‘ You 've been asking for this all night ! ’ |
| 14 | All except , I can see , you know when they 've been asking for this money ? |
| 15 | You might remember I 've been pressing for this for about eighteen bloody months . |
| 16 | I 've been planning for this , too , over the last few days . |
| 17 | I 've been recording for this |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been waiting for this , ’ says Iain . |
| 19 | I 've been waiting for this moment all week . |
| 20 | I 've been waiting for this for so long that I do n't think I can wait any longer — ’ |
| 21 | I 've been waiting for this chance since the days of the Witch of Endor . |
| 22 | I just said , goodness , I said we 've been waiting for this parcel since before Christmas and he says oh have you duck . |
| 23 | I 've been waiting for this day all week . |
| 24 | I can say without embarrassment that I have been training for this for a long time , that I have learned to breathe the rarefied air , that I now know when to stand still and when to move forward , when to attack and when to retreat , when to leave a problem to resolve itself and when to go on working at it till the solution emerges . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I have been waiting for this , you know . |
| 27 | Speaking to The Art Newspaper , Drouot chairman Joel-Marie Millon said : ‘ We have been asking for this measure for years . |
| 28 | ‘ We have been asking for this specialist help at the Memorial hospital for a long time now , but there has been no movement from the health authority over this matter . ’ |