Example sentences of "[coord] [noun prp] [verb] [been] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charlotte and Alexander have been waiting for years . |
| 2 | Dr Gilbert has pointed out that when the evangelist Hannah More remarked in 1789 on the existence of whole village populations no less estranged from the services of the Church than were heathens , she was belatedly recognising something which Wesley and Whitefield had been proclaiming for decades . |
| 3 | Donald and Elinor had been talking for thirty minutes . |
| 4 | And then , after he and Owen had been talking for some while , he crooked his finger and called over the boy who had seen |
| 5 | Jo and Ryan had been dating for six months and had progressed some way beyond parking now . |
| 6 | Retirement is one of the few moments which a politician can choose with deliberation and Baldwin had been preparing for it for months , if not for years . |
| 7 | ‘ People see Romania and Albania in the media all the time now but Poland has been suffering for a long time and people are still very much in need of our help , ’ she said . |