Example sentences of "we have [be] [verb] for " in BNC.

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1 I do n't we got about three , three thirty in the morning , both of them went out to er canal somewhere up Dulgate , past Dulgate we set up and we 'd we 'd been fishing for about two and half hours it 's aba about six thirty in the morning this old farmer comes up says er aye , aye lads , he said er I would n't bother it , they drained this area of the canal a few months ago !
2 If we 'd been looking for an easy acquaintance with nature , we would have chosen a different landscape : something lusher and more intricate , not this bleak and famished hillside on the Atlantic 's edge .
3 I think that if we 'd been looking for some rather more er refined instruments of taxation , I nearly said torture , er from the continent then we might have looked er and found some rather better means of getting local money in to finance local government .
4 We 'd been shagging for about a month .
5 I knew that I always overestimated the time these outings took , but I was certain that we 'd been going for over two hours , and still we were crashing on .
6 We 'd been told for years how generous they would be , but when we challenged them , they had nothing for us .
7 Almost without exception we 'd been knocked for six .
8 ‘ But I am a bit disappointed that while we 've been appealing for new directors nobody from the town has come forward . ’
9 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 .
10 We 've been struggling for years .
11 Towards which we 've been striving for weeks .
12 The things they are being tested for are all those we 've been training for up until this time .
13 We 've been looking for McCloy to lead us to his hired assassin .
14 We 've been looking for this car as part of a murder investigation .
15 We 've been looking for you for ages , ’ he said .
16 We 've been looking for someone who can cope with the 24-hours-a-day rock ‘ n ’ roll lifestyle .
17 ‘ 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 .
18 " We 've been looking for you , " said Hazel .
19 The idea that you might be the person we 've been looking for came after I 'd met you . ’
20 We 've been looking for you for some months .
21 He says , here 's something , he says , we , we 've been looking for for years and here 's me stumbling on it accidentally .
22 We 've been looking for you everywhere for the past hour !
23 We 've been looking for you these five days , and never a sign .
24 Something that we 've been looking for for months and months !
25 ‘ But that 's what we 've been sent for ; to fetch you back .
26 ‘ But we 've been separated for four years , ’ she reminded him in a more reasonable tone .
27 We 've been bugged for 10 years by a reputation for extremism and division , which we 're just getting rid of .
28 We 've been isolated for so long and we all thought we were so bloody good but now we have to accept the reality that we are not . ’
29 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 .
30 We 've been criticised for saying that all children under five should have books in the home .
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