Example sentences of "'ve [been] [verb] for [adj] " 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 | Yeah I know but Marks and Spencers are a crap shop I do n't care if they go out of business they 're a rip off anyway , they 're so expensive , such crap clothes , they 're so common , that 's the word I 've been looking for common , that 's my word of the week I think er common common , does it not get to ya looking like everyone else ? |
| 4 | We 've been looking for this car as part of a murder investigation . |
| 5 | ‘ But I am a bit disappointed that while we 've been appealing for new directors nobody from the town has come forward . ’ |
| 6 | They 'd be secondhand shoes because they 've been worn for three days . |
| 7 | Get a bit of sympathy cos I 've been asked for eight by you . |
| 8 | Register Office , handful of guests , parents optional , drink-up at couple 's house ( in which they 've been living for several years already ) . |
| 9 | And I 've been living for seven years ! |
| 10 | I did mention that er I 'm a retired tax inspector and I 'm very long retired , I 've been retired for thirteen years , thoroughly enjoying it , hope you too but your first questions w must be what the devil am I doing thirteen years retired tax inspector talking to you on a technical subject , why on earth ca n't you get the real thing ? |
| 11 | Everything they have in that shop is better than the one you 've been wearing for ten years . |
| 12 | In a quiet , gentle , but troubled voice , Cardiff said , ‘ You 've been gone for twenty-six years , Barbara . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Lucky devil , I 've been trying for eight years and still have n't cracked it yet . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been trying for forty years and the margin of error 's still about eighty per cent . ’ |
| 16 | The single parent building a home on supplementary benefit does n't have the tools acquired by workers who 've been earning for twenty or forty years . |
| 17 | You 've been made for other things than politics and intrigue . ’ |
| 18 | they 've been done for many years |
| 19 | We 've also included in there , on item twelve , a net bill item , but does need to be recognized as an addition to your total spending , and that is , you 've been involved for many years with the health authority in arranging for the discharge of people from long-stay hospitals , and their absorption into the community , and each of these are a provider of many services , and daycare services to those particular individuals . |
| 20 | We 've been bugged for 10 years by a reputation for extremism and division , which we 're just getting rid of . |
| 21 | That 's correct , and that the further down , I mean it says that er there is a er it says that the reason you 've had been the reason you 've been sent for this treatment is because of er a particular condition you 've got . |
| 22 | ‘ But we 've been separated for four years , ’ she reminded him in a more reasonable tone . |
| 23 | He , too , married a girl of his own milieu ; they 've been separated for many years . |
| 24 | I 've been cooking for 7 years now , including my school , my cookery school . |
| 25 | Now we 've been asking for this for years . |
| 26 | ‘ You 've been asking for this all night ! ’ |
| 27 | All except , I can see , you know when they 've been asking for this money ? |
| 28 | 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 |
| 29 | You might remember I 've been pressing for this for about eighteen bloody months . |
| 30 | she said ‘ We 've been going for two months with very long hours . ’ |