Example sentences of "[vb base] [been] [v-ing] [adv] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , the hindquarter double-muscled trait is important and is the breed 's main attribute , but we 've been looking too for stock with good overall conformation , with loin and fleshing that we feel is vital to any successful terminal sire breed . |
| 2 | I 've been hiding there for ages . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been standing outside for ages — wanting to come in , but knowing I should n't . ’ |
| 4 | We 've been going together for ages . |
| 5 | Erm the housing need figure we 've been working on for Greater York has been nine thousand seven hundred and that 's been based on the parishes within the Greater York study area . |
| 6 | They feel comfortable in bed together — they 've been sleeping together for years after all , and the new-found passion is lovely and exciting . |
| 7 | I 've been waiting here for ages . |
| 8 | ‘ They 've been waiting there for ages , ’ said Gurder . |
| 9 | We 've been cultivating both for centuries . |
| 10 | Local folk have been picking here for generations and always made sure that the beds were not overfished . |
| 11 | ‘ Businesses which have been clinging on for months are now going over the edge . ’ |
| 12 | Although they have been living together for years they have had no idea how the other really felt . |
| 13 | But she and Hilda have been living together for years . ’ |
| 14 | Britain is a late runner in the modern tramway stakes , although such systems have been operating successfully for years in Continental cities . |
| 15 | The milkmen have been watching out for customers who lay their part in the community , are good neighbour , keep a watchful eye on elderly residents , or putting nuts out for the birds . |
| 16 | Some fear reprisals if they did so , although tourists have been coming here for years to fish for trout and salmon . ’ |
| 17 | It contains the first detailed plans for the Himalayas , which all the big names in the business have been working on for years . |
| 18 | They have been working successfully for years and apparently preclude the necessity of fertilisers . |
| 19 | The reader 's time and money would be better spent reading that classic novel you have been putting off for years . |
| 20 | Talks have been going on for weeks over the future of the Royal marriage , but despite repeated attempts to save it , the Queen finally decided it was all over on Tuesday afternoon . |
| 21 | Celia and I have been battling away for months now and we do n't seem to be getting anywhere . |
| 22 | And all the students in those colleges that are studying education have been doing so for awards at the University of Sussex , so we 're actually a much bigger family than the students we have here on the site at Thelma . |