Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the idea of COSE has been kicking around for more than a year now , it was the possibility of missing the opportunity to be a part of a very public announcement on the opening day of the UniForum show that finally drove some of the parties to the table — and final agreement was reached barely 48 hours before Wednesday 17 , opening day of the San Francisco event . |
| 2 | Although the idea of COSE has been kicking around for more than a year now , it was the possibility of missing the opportunity to be a part of a very public announcement on the opening day of the UniForum show that finally drove some of the parties to the table . |
| 3 | Barclays Bank in Britain has been casting about for months for a chief executive . |
| 4 | Well it maybe , you see I 've had this , this has been hanging around for a month |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | During recent years , demand has been building up for greatly increased facilities for full-time substitute care . |
| 8 | It 's the latest run in in a dispute which has been rumbling on for some weeks betweenthe Post office and the National Communications union . |
| 9 | East Belfast-based midfielder Keery ( 28 ) has been holding out for a better deal than the one on offer . |
| 10 | Robert Taylor has been listening out for the sounds of an economic recovery |
| 11 | Over in Cheltenham , Frank Ford has been watching out for the first signs of winter . |
| 12 | And somebody has been covering up for him — smoothing his footprints out of the mud , rubbing his fingerprints off the door handles . |
| 13 | This problem has been carrying on for two months or more , and so far I have not found a successful treatment . |
| 14 | Dr Peggy Heeks reports on research she has been carrying out for the British Library |
| 15 | If I take one example as more updated version of Hammett and Chandler , one of the most successful writers I think in financial terms in America since the Second World War has been a man called Kenneth Miller , who writes under the name of Ross Macdonald , and has been turning out for , oh , the best part of thirty years now , novels about a Californian private eye called Lou Archer . |
| 16 | It has been going on for too long . |
| 17 | Plant collecting has been going on for thousands of years . |
| 18 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 19 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 20 | ‘ This has been going on for ten years , ’ he added . |
| 21 | During a civil action that has been going on for years over ownership , he was made a ward of court and his bones kept in shoe boxes in a bank . ’ |
| 22 | A sort of messy , mucky drama has been going on for years , about unselectivity and conglomeration : ‘ Let them have the experience , all of them , every one of them , every minute of every time ! ’ ( p. 8 ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But most sociologists , and now many social anthropologists also , are dealing with complex literate societies in which the accumulation of documents of one sort or another has been going on for centuries . |
| 25 | The real cause of the trouble is , that parents and teachers always pass on to us , as children , what they themselves have been told , and this has been going on for hundreds , or even thousands of years . |
| 26 | Now , butterflies live only a matter of weeks , and yet this has been going on for years . |
| 27 | The process has been going on for some time . |
| 28 | The whiplash dynamics of Batman Returns represent the culmination of a process that has been going on for the last 15 years . |
| 29 | ‘ I know that picking the seam has been going on for years , but tampering with the ball is a different matter . |
| 30 | This phenomenon has been going on for long enough in Shetland waters for it to be given a local name of ‘ fuglicaa ’ , which is derived from old Norse ‘ fugl ’ meaning bird and ‘ caa ’ to drive ( as in sheep ) — literally a ‘ bird-drive ’ . |