Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] [been] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then obviously I 've been looking for the wrong qualities in my secretaries . ’ |
| 2 | Apparently it has been recognised for over a decade that chlorine from chlorofluorocarbons may deplete the stratospheric ozone layer . |
| 3 | And he had to go and train somewhere down south , but he 's got a he , apparently he 'd been trying for a year and he 's got to Accrington . |
| 4 | ‘ Perhaps it 's been buried for ten years , ’ she whispered to herself . |
| 5 | The book was all he had been waiting for , and all was going according to plan . |
| 6 | So he 'd been looking for her . |
| 7 | President Bill Clinton has been in the White House just a month but already he 's been proposed for Oxford University 's highest honour . |
| 8 | And just what had been paid for in this case ? |
| 9 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
| 10 | Practically nothing had been done for the environment since 1970 ; people had simply built more cars , more roads , more factories , and thrown ever-increasing tons of chemicals on to the land . |
| 11 | Now we 've been asking for this for years . |
| 12 | Now something 's been said for certainly fifteen years er that I can remember . |
| 13 | Often they had been laid for commercial purposes , including coal mining , but were becoming disused . |
| 14 | Just now it has been condemned for supporting Queer City , a collection of works by ‘ noted gay writers in New York City ’ ( this phrase is Chairman Frohnmayer 's own ) . |
| 15 | Now he 's been banned for another 12 months at Banbury , Oxfordshire . |
| 16 | ‘ You can imagine what a spell in the Army would have meant for someone who values his fingers as a pianist , so when I came back home I got in touch with some people and now he has been booked for a number of festivals , ’ Alan tells me . |
| 17 | So far it has been implemented for the 68000 , 88000 , R-Series and Sparc processors . |
| 18 | That is erm whenever people look for an analysis of something , here I 've been looking for an analysis of individuation , there 's a tendency to consider candidate analyses one by one , singulatum . |
| 19 | Well we 've been planning for it for something like eleven months , with a small planning team , but at its height , just before Conference , there were a total of seventy officers involved . |
| 20 | Well it 's been booked for three or four weeks has n't it ? |
| 21 | I think I can say that during my career most of the things I 've decided ought to be done , I 've got done , but I 've done them in very different ways to other people and sometimes I 've been criticised for not going out and grabbing the headlines . |
| 22 | Just as well so late I 've been waiting for to come . |
| 23 | But at least she has been prepared for her party to stand in elections here . |
| 24 | come on then we 've been waiting for you to come , come on |
| 25 | And we and then we had been working for him for about ten or eleven years on this contract that he had for us . |
| 26 | There they had been questioned for a long time , in a way which — Alice could see , watching Bert 's face as he told the tale — had not only impressed but sobered the two . |
| 27 | Since then he 's been waiting for him higher up on various tracks . |
| 28 | Since then he has been cared for at the Airedale General Hospital . |
| 29 | One is , none of the departments are resourced to give this a lot of attention , and secondly we have been waiting for further guidance from the Government on the outcome , particularly from local government , in respect of agenda twenty-one . |
| 30 | Certainly it has been argued for a discrete stimulus trained as an occasion setter that subsequently presenting it alone will not produce a loss of occasion-setting power ( e.g. Rescorla 1986 ) ( but see also Ross 1983 ; Holland and Gory 1986 ) . |