Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] [v-ing] [adv prt] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it maybe , you see I 've had this , this has been hanging around for a month |
| 2 | This has been hanging about for a long , long time while I 've been on this and these people and they 're very special people I 've got this sword of hanging over my head . |
| 3 | We use this way in to stop people stealing what gear we have.Andy has been scratching around for a regular roof over his head for a year , ever since he lost his job and his home burned down in a fire . |
| 4 | East Belfast-based midfielder Keery ( 28 ) has been holding out for a better deal than the one on offer . |
| 5 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 6 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 7 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 8 | It is part of a rather complicated arrangement that has been going on for a few years now . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
| 10 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
| 11 | The old Moscow publishers Iskusstvo managed to release just one book last year , and having exhausted its resources , it was forced to suspend publication of the journal Iskusstvo , which has been coming out for a number of decades . |
| 12 | Hills said : ‘ She has been crying out for a mile , and the way the race was run she has been lucky enough not to have had too hard a race . ’ |
| 13 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 14 | It 's dragging on , it 's been dragging on for a year , but I 'm getting there slowly and I feel a lot more confident than last time . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |