Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been [v-ing] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us . |
| 2 | We 've all been trucking along for so long on the back of the post-war consensus ( more growth , more production , more consumption , more jobs , more energy , more roads , more hospitals , more rubbish , etc ) , that most people are understandably reluctant to get off the treadmill — even though they can see it 's falling to pieces . |
| 3 | It had all been going on for years , Chertro said , and apparently earlier technicians had been doing the same for a long time before . |
| 4 | I was sorry for Jennifer but they had only been going out for a month or so , and not terribly seriously . |
| 5 | These steps into a wider world were part of a great process of expansion by western Europe that had already been going on for decades . |
| 6 | Army bomb disposal experts arrived at Dorton late this afternoon to join the search of the trackside that had already been going on for four and a half hours . |
| 7 | However months later he was able to start talking about his wife and the fact that they had not been getting on for some time and had begun divorce proceedings . |
| 8 | My head was throbbing and the shoulder was beginning to ache from the kicking , which had probably been going on for some time before I came round . |
| 9 | If she had n't been looking out for the signpost , she could easily have driven past without even realising it was there . |
| 10 | Erm and that 's really been coming on for about five years . |
| 11 | Always considered a soft touch for your face , these products have currently been coming in for more scrutiny . |