Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] [v-ing] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No he said , I ca n't give it back to you , you 're the person that I 've been looking for all my life . |
| 2 | I 've been looking for that all week ! |
| 3 | We 've been looking for this car as part of a murder investigation . |
| 4 | Register Office , handful of guests , parents optional , drink-up at couple 's house ( in which they 've been living for several years already ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Now we 've been asking for this for years . |
| 7 | ‘ You 've been asking for this all night ! ’ |
| 8 | All except , I can see , you know when they 've been asking for this money ? |
| 9 | You might remember I 've been pressing for this for about eighteen bloody months . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I 've been planning for this , too , over the last few days . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I 've been recording for this |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | So it 's really settling in and I 've been waiting for that to happen . ’ |
| 18 | I 've been waiting for that featherbrained bird to buzz off , ’ said the frog . |
| 19 | that 's what I 've been waiting for that ten , ten do it again |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been waiting for this , ’ says Iain . |
| 21 | I 've been waiting for this moment all week . |
| 22 | I 've been waiting for this for so long that I do n't think I can wait any longer — ’ |
| 23 | I 've been waiting for this chance since the days of the Witch of Endor . |
| 24 | I just said , goodness , I said we 've been waiting for this parcel since before Christmas and he says oh have you duck . |
| 25 | I 've been waiting for this day all week . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've been running for several years but only up to half marathon distance , ’ he says . |
| 27 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 28 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 29 | Nurses who have been nursing for some time are likely to have reached the stage where much of what they do has become automatic , that is , carried out without conscious thought or awareness . |
| 30 | But while the exact timing of this pattern of events was unusual , the return of the overall pattern in the early 1980s comes as little surprise to some researchers , who have been warning for several years that a new drought cycle was due . |