Example sentences of "[vb base] [been] [v-ing] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've been looking for McCloy to lead us to his hired assassin . |
| 2 | ‘ The editor we 've been looking for will also have to be able to cope with Alice Cooper dropping into our offices , plus other heavy metal groups who 've been into the heavy metal jewellery shop , the Great Frog which is in Carnaby Street beneath our offices . |
| 3 | Arms salesman ; okay the Avenger the Equaliser the Total Fucking Nutter went for the legs too but still , and the editor spiked , and the rapist-lenient judge raped and the pornographer poisoned and stroked and the man who was so callous about the bloodshed in the Iran/Iraq war forced to watch his penned animals die like cattle like soldiers like cattle and then bled to death in his own private fountains of blood and the businessman who put profits before safety and not only helped kill a thousand people but then tried to get out of paying the survivors and dependants any compensation gets his own gas explosion — blevey is the technical term apparently — and fuck me whoever he is ( assuming he is a he ) , he 's got a sense of humour or at least irony why he 's produced what 's almost a snuff video effectively a snuff video if you mean brain-death anyway it 's the closest anyone will admit to ever having seen or found one even the Obscene Pubs Squad who 've been looking for years but although everybody assumes they exist nobody 's ever seen one until old gorilla man comes along and just makes his own , specifically to warn off any other porn merchants thinking of dealing in snuff ! |
| 4 | It 's tempting , but probably inadvisable , to accept their statements — often pat slogans they 've been repeating for years — at face value . |
| 5 | I 've been searching for ages . ’ |
| 6 | I 've been searching for news of you all over Chelsea , Eaton Square , Cadogan Gardens … not a sign of your people anywhere . ’ |
| 7 | Towards which we 've been striving for weeks . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've been struggling for years . |
| 9 | and I 've been trying for ages but there just has n't been any cos |
| 10 | I 've been trying for days , though , I 'm coming over tomorrow . |
| 11 | But if you can actually influence the French let us know because , or let the government know , because they , they 've been trying for years ever since Napoleon 's day , to try and do something . |
| 12 | yes you 've been promising for weeks |
| 13 | And she has a hundred and forty and he 's gotten of cans for the his mum and Stewart 's been getting some cans for the shop for his granddad and I 've been asking for permission to go into the dump and get some for there . |
| 14 | And what this actually came out on was this overall health and safety assessment that we 've been doing for G P erm , we 've actually just filed that overall group focused on the the branches as a potential issue and I know it 's been very su su successful on a number of times . |
| 15 | ‘ This is something we 've been doing for years . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been travelling for hours . |
| 17 | They 've been going for years , they 've been making motor oils , engine oil , it 's called filtrate so that 's the liquid . |
| 18 | Driving for cash er well an indication of how strongly we , we 've been driving for cash is that er the reduction i in er operating cash flow is less than the reduction in profit . |
| 19 | I 've been working for Radio Skerne for about six years now . |
| 20 | We 've been talking for hours . |
| 21 | ‘ You 've been sleeping for hours , so I thought you might be about ready to get up . ’ |
| 22 | A lot of people started handing in pellet guns and antique muzzle-loaders they 've been keeping for years without a licence . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been knocking for ages and all ye do is laugh up at me . ’ |
| 24 | They 've been revolting for years under the surface and then some thing happens that make it possible course the continued revolutions have gone on through the world and because they 've seen the success of a revolution in Russia although we did n't know the full facts of it in the West , it was , it did establish a huge area in the wake of a revolution . |
| 25 | The , the direct debits that you 've been paying for years but you 're not sure where they go to , that sort of thing ? |
| 26 | I 've been lying for hours in the dark and thinking . |
| 27 | Alright , fair enough , you accepted what we 've been saying for ages that we had to go to voluntary competitive tendering right . |
| 28 | But I mean , one of the things that we 've got on with at the moment is that we 've been saying for ages , you 've got to get your you 've got to get us involved at design stage . |
| 29 | ‘ We 've been waiting for ages , ’ said Angalo . |
| 30 | I 've been waiting for ages . ’ |