Example sentences of "we 've been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I am a bit disappointed that while we 've been appealing for new directors nobody from the town has come forward . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ We 've been struggling for years . |
| 4 | Towards which we 've been striving for weeks . |
| 5 | The things they are being tested for are all those we 've been training for up until this time . |
| 6 | We 've been looking for McCloy to lead us to his hired assassin . |
| 7 | We 've been looking for this car as part of a murder investigation . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've been looking for you for ages , ’ he said . |
| 9 | We 've been looking for someone who can cope with the 24-hours-a-day rock ‘ n ’ roll lifestyle . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | " We 've been looking for you , " said Hazel . |
| 12 | The idea that you might be the person we 've been looking for came after I 'd met you . ’ |
| 13 | We 've been looking for you for some months . |
| 14 | He says , here 's something , he says , we , we 've been looking for for years and here 's me stumbling on it accidentally . |
| 15 | We 've been looking for you everywhere for the past hour ! |
| 16 | ‘ We 've been looking for you these five days , and never a sign . |
| 17 | Something that we 've been looking for for months and months ! |
| 18 | ‘ But that 's what we 've been sent for ; to fetch you back . |
| 19 | ‘ But we 've been separated for four years , ’ she reminded him in a more reasonable tone . |
| 20 | We 've been bugged for 10 years by a reputation for extremism and division , which we 're just getting rid of . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ We 've been criticised for saying that all children under five should have books in the home . |
| 24 | Drummer Chris Cooper explained : ‘ We 've been criticised for being shoddy live so we decided to do something about . |
| 25 | We 've been criticised for bringing him in so late but we tried to bring him in earlier . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |
| 27 | Because we 've been talking for a while so had time for it to evaporate . |
| 28 | We 've been talking for hours . |
| 29 | We 've been talking for about fifteen minutes . |
| 30 | Well we 've been planning for it for something like eleven months , with a small planning team , but at its height , just before Conference , there were a total of seventy officers involved . |