Example sentences of "been [verb] for this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Viking is way behind schedule : it had been intended for this quarter , but StorageTek said that based on the present status of the product and schedule estimates it expects IBM-compatible products based on Viking architecture to be available in the second half of 1994 . |
| 2 | In his own way , Ted had been building for this moment too . |
| 3 | The previous half-year figures have been adjusted for this change in presentation . |
| 4 | The ideas that have been developed for this region can be applied to most turbulent flows adjacent to a wall : for example , to turbulent channel and pipe flow ( although not , for example , to a boundary layer close to separation ) . |
| 5 | Piggy is short-sighted ; and the spectacles he would have been prescribed for this condition could not possibly have been used as burning glasses . |
| 6 | Good God , Teddy , the US arms industry has been praying for this war for years . |
| 7 | At the time of going to press , not one person has been nominated for this post . |
| 8 | Unfortunately the only categories included in the criteria for grants which might be exploited by the arts do not appear to have been designed for this purpose . |
| 9 | In addition , a number of works from the Statens Museum for Kunst , Copenhagen have been added for this showing . |
| 10 | If you 've followed the plot so far , you 'll see what I mean about the conglomeration of bits and pieces from different instruments that have been amassed for this guitar . |
| 11 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 12 | In New York , visitors to the Studio Museum have been prepared for this recasting of Lam by a retrospective of his works on paper at the Americas Society , which travels to Barcelona 's Fundacio ‘ La Caixa ’ on 21 January . |
| 13 | We 've been looking for this car as part of a murder investigation . |
| 14 | No contingency plans had been made for this eventuality . |
| 15 | An appointment has been made for this morning , but there is expected to be a delay before results are known . |
| 16 | Mr Jones , 55 , said : ‘ I am very surprised to have been selected for this award , but extremely pleased . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You have been selected for this commission because of your exceptional technical skills , and your great artistic ability . |
| 18 | As is traditional , the trophies which were won throughout the year had been saved for this occasion and presented to their recipients after dinner . |
| 19 | The SIB 's new Conduct of Business Core Rule 28 has been adopted for this purpose . |
| 20 | Dowd had been waiting for this man , Matthias McGann , to say his piece . |
| 21 | Tuesday — could it really be only Tuesday when now every cell of her body was alight with a feedback intelligence that told her she had been waiting for this man all her life … |
| 22 | I 've been waiting for this day all week . |
| 23 | It was as if Chambers bad been waiting for this admission . |
| 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 chance since the days of the Witch of Endor . |
| 26 | How long have you been waiting for this car , a while have n't you Spen ? |
| 27 | As everyone turned to look at him , Jinny realized that he had been waiting for this moment all the time he was explaining his plan . |
| 28 | We , the readers of the narrative , have been waiting for this moment ever since the concluding words of the book of Numbers : ‘ These are the commandments and the ordinances which the Lord commanded by Moses to the people of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho . ’ |
| 29 | It was as if she had been waiting for this moment for four years or more . |
| 30 | She 'd been waiting for this moment for so long , and all she could do , now that it had finally arrived , was think the worst of him , instead of simply being happy to see him again . |