Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] been [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that has been happening for hundreds of years . |
| 2 | But that has been happening for hundreds of years . |
| 3 | That has been happening for some time , but the Secretary of State and the Minister should know that . |
| 4 | If this has been leaking for some time then the transfer box is probably low on oil . |
| 5 | They 'll let you do a activity , this has been going for years but they wo n't let you . |
| 6 | Some had been waiting for more than an hour , arriving while it was still dark and the little windows of the cells were still lit . |
| 7 | Some had been coming for a year or more and spoke quite a little English . |
| 8 | Some have been living for a disconcertingly long time in museums ; but once doubted , the evidence of inadequacy in a fake is quite often soon in coming . |
| 9 | County clubs , meanwhile , can help by welcoming former players , be they great or small , and in particular by forming old player associations , as Somerset has done in the last few seasons , as some have been doing for decades . |
| 10 | ‘ What am I supposed to have been looking for ? ’ |
| 11 | Sixty-seven parties fought the election of 1991 ; 29 won seats in parliament ; a dozen have been jockeying for seats in coalition governments . |
| 12 | All had been festering for many years . |
| 13 | ‘ 63 teams from all over the UK took part , and it was clear that many had been training for months . |
| 14 | Many had been decomposing for several weeks . |
| 15 | When Luxembourg finally admitted what many had been saying for years , that it wants a federal EC , British federalists tried to pretend that the Luxembourgers do not mean federal when they say ‘ federal ’ . |
| 16 | Here was an opportunity many had been waiting for . |
| 17 | Many have been living for years in a shadowy , illegal world , doing the jobs that affluent Japanese now shun . |
| 18 | Academics have been writing books and articles ; Charter 88 has been campaigning for constitutional reform ; citizenship is to be incorporated in the National Curriculum in the schools ; and a commission under the august patronage of the Speaker of the House of Commons published a report entitled Encouraging Citizenship in October 1990 . |
| 19 | Second mission came on March 6 , 1944. it was the day all the Mighty Eighth had been waiting for . |
| 20 | An army of 2000 have been reporting for duty … tables to set … glasses to clean … crates of bottles to wheel in … |
| 21 | The twenty eight year-old mother of two had been missing for six days when police frogmen pulled her submerged Renault car out of the river . |
| 22 | The Guildford Four have been canvassing for Jeremy Corbyn in Islington . |
| 23 | About half of the patients had been waiting for their notes for less than six weeks , but 19 had been waiting for over six months , 14 for over a year , and six for over two years . |
| 24 | Gentlemen ushers in knee-length black tunics fuss about , directing last-minute guests to their seats , although most have been waiting for the best part of an hour , making stilted smalltalk to conceal their pride . |