Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [adv prt] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 2 | I ca n't believe it , I 've been slagging off for the three weeks this is crap , this is really naff . |
| 3 | This has been hanging about for a long , long time while I 've been on this and these people and they 're very special people I 've got this sword of hanging over my head . |
| 4 | This allowance is very limited — it is available only for married women whose child/children are over four years of age and who have been signing on for the previous six months . |
| 5 | If it had been someone else 's funeral George would have been looking out for the nearest pub . |
| 6 | No-one 's wanted to have a punt and we 've been scrambling about for the odd winner . |
| 7 | You 've been mooning about for a few weeks , ’ she chuckled , ruefully . |
| 8 | To most people the term Gatt means very little but the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade which 108 countries have been wrestling over for the past six years is vital to fair trading throughout the world . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 10 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 11 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
| 12 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
| 13 | It is part of a rather complicated arrangement that has been going on for a few years now . ’ |
| 14 | In Guatemala too , the 1980s marked a high point of repression in a political conflict which has been going on for the best part of thirty years . |
| 15 | The whiplash dynamics of Batman Returns represent the culmination of a process that has been going on for the last 15 years . |
| 16 | It is common for patients to appear for their first out-patient appointment with one or other of these problems , which has been going on for the previous few weeks . |
| 17 | Ramped Craft Logistic and mexeflote rafts had been arriving regularly throughout the night , continuing the build-up of vehicles and ammunition Which had been going on for the past two days . |
| 18 | ‘ These stories have been going round for a long time , and they grow with the telling . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ The Division 's been going out for the last fifteen years ; slowly but surely . ’ |
| 20 | You might say that this thing had been brewing up for a long time , that the threat was there ; they had n't seen it . |
| 21 | East Belfast-based midfielder Keery ( 28 ) has been holding out for a better deal than the one on offer . |
| 22 | By this time , Lou and Charlie had moved too — the business had been running down for a long period and there was no point in staying in a flat over a shop that did n't exist any more . |
| 23 | We use this way in to stop people stealing what gear we have.Andy has been scratching around for a regular roof over his head for a year , ever since he lost his job and his home burned down in a fire . |
| 24 | The village is fascinating ; the sort of place the press have been raving about for the past four years when they talk about ‘ unspoilt Turkey ’ . |
| 25 | I ca n't of course foretell er what 's gon na happen in Eastern Europe , but looking externally er at the lower interest rates and the er more competitive value of the pound and internally at the improved cash flow and the actions that we 've been taking over for the past couple of years and I can say that there 's now generally a more optimistic feeling in the air amongst our group companies . |
| 26 | Dr Peggy Heeks reports on research she has been carrying out for the British Library |
| 27 | OSF 's singular appearance changes the rules the industry has been playing by for the past few years , narrowing the gap between the two camps , and allowing more room for the players to manoeuvre . |
| 28 | Over in Cheltenham , Frank Ford has been watching out for the first signs of winter . |
| 29 | In the U K the improvement plans we 've been working on for the last two years have been very successfully implemented but they 've been overtaken by the U K recession . |
| 30 | Mistakenly , he had agreed to let Brompton-Smiley travel with him in the Rolls and discuss the matter of some urgency he had been whining about for the last two days . |