Example sentences of "[noun prp] have been [v-ing] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goering has been negotiating secretly for months . |
| 2 | Jean has been teaching there for 24 years . |
| 3 | In fact Arlene has been working here for years . ’ |
| 4 | He said he and wife Brenda had been growing apart for at least a year . |
| 5 | Larry and Tina have been living together for a year . |
| 6 | The DSS has been arguing successfully for years that if a claimant was ignorant of his entitlement , that did not justify his failure to claim or justify his having a back payment . |
| 7 | The total number of books published in the UK has been rising relentlessly for over 10 years , but 1993 should herald a change in strategy from major publishers : Random House , HarperCollins and Reed Consumer Books are among companies to have announced that they are substantially reducing the number of titles that they will be publishing in 1993 . |
| 8 | He was not hurrying , but his attitude suggested he thought Anna and Seb had been talking together for quite long enough . |
| 9 | Bruno 's been training hard for this fight in Leicester . |
| 10 | Mr Fitzpatrick had been looking forward for months to the holiday with his son , who attended business meetings in the US capital . |
| 11 | Mr Fitzpatrick had been looking forward for months to a holiday in the States with his son . |
| 12 | Following township rumours that the Mandelas had been living apart for some weeks , the Sowetan newspaper said Mrs Mandela continued to live in the mansion she had built in a better part of Soweto but Mr Mandela had moved into a well-guarded home in Johannesburg 's affluent northern suburbs . |
| 13 | But she and Hilda have been living together for years . ’ |
| 14 | Obviously Stirling had been lobbying hard for new blood . |
| 15 | The aerospace team in Celomer has been working hard for the last nine years to get Deutsche Airbus approval for paints supplied from Celomer , and one year ago Celomer secured the first 100 tons contract . |