Example sentences of "they [verb] been [v-ing] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Register Office , handful of guests , parents optional , drink-up at couple 's house ( in which they 've been living for several years already ) . |
| 2 | All except , I can see , you know when they 've been asking for this money ? |
| 3 | Bernard and Laura escaped on to their sailing boat for much of the summer , a yacht they had been enjoying for some years now , and they pottered around Mykonos in Greece . |
| 4 | To judge by the clutter of bottles , glasses , and over-filled ashtrays , and the brooding , weary faces , they had been debating for many hours . |
| 5 | He realised they had been watching for some minutes before he noticed them . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't know what he meant , ’ Allen said after they had been walking for some time on the soft turf at the verge of the track . |
| 7 | They have been waiting for these choice morsels — dessert . |
| 8 | A buy-in of shares may be the appropriate method of effecting a management buy-out where certain shareholders wish to realise their investment in a business which they have been running for some time , or they wish to retire , and there is a management team willing to continue with the business and become the new shareholders . |