Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [adv prt] for [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During recent years , demand has been building up for greatly increased facilities for full-time substitute care . |
| 2 | This partly explains why they 've been struggling on for around six years now , but is no excuse in the current climate for them not gaining some long overdue recognition . |
| 3 | Its virtue was that it had no neighbours and it had been picked out for just that reason : no-one to ask questions , no-one expecting to start up a friendship . |
| 4 | Bile sampling at the time of endoscopic or percutaneous cholangiography , with subsequent cytological examination , has been carried out for over 20 years . |
| 5 | We had been looking around for about five minutes or so , when a jeep containing two members of the Guardia Civil ( The National Police ) arrived . |
| 6 | Too much emotion has been bottled up for too long and in some firms the performance-reward link is seriously distorted . |
| 7 | I 'd just been turned down for yet another job , hardly any money left — desperate , I was , and out comes your grandfather , asks me what 's wrong . ’ |
| 8 | The affair had been going on for nearly two years . |
| 9 | Investigations into the activities of this particular smuggling gang had been going on for nearly twelve months prior to the climax of Yashmak and were initiated in Sussex . |
| 10 | Her admirer had already been bound over to keep the peace after being arrested on her doorstep , and his unwelcome attentions had been going on for over six years . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The search for Louise Butler had been going on for over two days . |
| 13 | I 'm actually concerned that if we , did anybody know about this issue earlier on because I think this has been going on for quite some time erm probably over the last two years and if anyone did know then why did n't they address it before and if anyone did n't know , why not ? |
| 14 | It 's been going on for about seventeen months now and the in chief man at Hill House was rather interested to hear that we 'd not actually had it resolved yet , and asked for the reference numbers and . |
| 15 | Looking back I find it hard to believe that I did n't keep abreast of all the war news ; but the war had been going on for so long that I , like almost every girl of my generation , had lost interest in it . |
| 16 | Although these are ‘ laboratory ’ specimens , they 've been kicking around for about six months and I 'd expect them to be detected quickly . |
| 17 | because I 've I 've not got time now , been gabbing on for so much . |
| 18 | The tank has been set up for about 5–6 weeks and houses five Tiger Barbs and five Serpae Tetra . |
| 19 | Erm and that 's really been coming on for about five years . |
| 20 | Over by the birch trees , Mervyn Finch had started to play his squeezebox to Vera ‘ Got All the Things There ’ Loomis , and a few of the adults were dancing the old dances that have been passed down for nearly 200 years . |
| 21 | Shropshire Youth has been left out for too many years to fend for itself . |
| 22 | The beginnings of this idea emerge well from a passage in The Lord of the Rings which has been singled out for especially ferocious criticism : the parting of Treebeard from Celeborn and Galadriel in The Return of the King , p. 259 : |
| 23 | Boeing had the facilities to test aircraft structures to destruction , and they also had some old Boeing 707/300–400 series that had been traded in for more modern aircraft from which stabilisers could be taken . |
| 24 | Terry had written out a very detailed plan for a farm-school project for juvenile offenders that he had been working on for almost two years . |