Example sentences of "[been] [verb] for a [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sightseers on the banks of the river , who , sensing something afoot , had been gathering for a few hours , dodged about , seeking a view between bushes . |
| 2 | Wait until your baby has been walking for a few weeks before taking her for the first shoe fitting , as toes are crucial in gripping the floor while learning to toddle . |
| 3 | It was unlikely that murder had been committed for a few pounds , but one could never be sure . |
| 4 | It 's been happening for a few days , but I 've only just realised what it is … |
| 5 | And he would ask a few questions , say he 'd been looking for a few hours . |
| 6 | Jake fingered the paperweight idly as he continued , ‘ It had probably been developing for a few days . |
| 7 | Listen , Bill — the boy 's been training for a few weeks , and it 's time he did some work . |
| 8 | Choose an open , sunny site where brassicas have n't been grown for a few years . |
| 9 | My ‘ heavenly brother ’ was not a Sasse boy , but from the primary school in nearby Mutengene mission where I had been staying for a few days . |
| 10 | Yes , this is what big shops , particularly in America , have now been doing for a few years , in that the till that takes your order as it were is also a computer terminal on line to large computers somewhere else , and every time your tin of baked bins is checked out by the girl on the till , it is adjusting the stocks on its large computer and saying , ‘ Hey , we 're going to run out of baked beans at approximately ten o'clock tomorrow morning . |
| 11 | The Hagen Biolife filter in our office tank has been running for a few weeks now , and one or two little problems have shown up . |
| 12 | Carole Rue , BT 's network services development manager , said : ‘ Although the trial has only been running for a few weeks we 're most encouraged by the initial response from our customers . |
| 13 | He was to have joined me this week , but his train met with an accident , so he 's been detained for a few days with an injured ankle . |
| 14 | ‘ You sound as if I 'd been gone for a few hours and forgot to leave you a note . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ The plant has been neglected for a few years so I thought I 'd give it some plant food and water and to my astonishment this was the result , ’ said Margaret . |
| 16 | The government 's Countryside Commission argued that the licence should only have been renewed for a few years during a thorough review of military land requirements . |
| 17 | But now I 've been drug-free for over a year erm but I 'd been trying for a few year before that and had nay managed to succeed . |