Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [adv] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gertrude Jekyll had not been available to design the garden at The Tamarisks when Lutyens had been drawing up plans for the house , but she was shown these plans and her advice was sought . |
| 2 | I 'd been banging up dikes for a couple of years when smack came on the scene and I just sort of carried on as I had been doing , y'know , with the smack instead of the dike . |
| 3 | This weekend 's meeting is the latest in a series of conferences over the past two weeks during which ministers , their advisers , vice-chancellors , polytechnic directors and senior officials have been thrashing out strategies for expanding the higher education system . |
| 4 | ‘ We have been bashing out plans for care management and for better discharge procedures , and on paper we can offer community care very well , ’ said Jim Walker , acting director of Bassetlaw trust 's mental health services . |
| 5 | So far today they have been studying how orders for an operation are given and the particular way in which the Army goes about explaining a complex undertaking . |
| 6 | Doctors are now been putting out warnings for many years , saying that certain aspects of our diets and health policy are very dangerous and destructive . |