Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of claims that the relationship was one of passionate intimacy , the brigadier said : ‘ They have been suggesting that for some time . |
| 2 | But few Japanese beverage companies yet make drinks-cans with tab openers that remain attached to the cans — even though companies in the US and Canada have been manufacturing these for almost 15 years . |
| 3 | She 'd been using these for years , ever since a practical demonstration by an art-school technician fired her to experiment with felting techniques . |
| 4 | We have been using these for only a number of weeks now , but the response has been very encouraging . |
| 5 | with his permission he thought it was funny he saw the funny side of it as well , but they had this big argument for five minutes cos he thought what he 'd done was right and he said Jesus , I 've been using this for three years for the training in the branch er it makes you wonder does n't it erm but if you 're gon na do practical applications you 've got ta give people relevant examples perhaps you start off basics with an example that is correct and then you start building on that do n't you then you start giving them the deviations and all this sort of stuff . |
| 6 | Institute Council member Douglas Llambias said the fine ‘ was out of all proportion to a guilty verdict ’ , and added that if the fines were capped , ‘ we should have been publicising that for the last 12 months . |
| 7 | I mean can I just return to what Queenie Warley said about the rents , because basically what she said was the conservative view on council house rents was that yes they had to go up because the Government decreed they had to go up , that they would have put them up earlier so people would have been paying more for longer , and the phasing that they 're suggesting now what she did n't point out is that under the Conservative proposal people would finish up paying even higher rents than they will have to pay this year . |
| 8 | I heard myself saying the line that had been waiting ready for months : ‘ I think the time has come when you must go in . ’ |
| 9 | I was in Italy , it was early morning , and I 'd been lying awake for about three hours . |
| 10 | The farmers from this village own land in the Buffer Zone that has been lying fallow for fourteen years , but which is now being opened up . |
| 11 | Re-rigging the ship for an Antarctic voyage inside of a week , after she had been lying idle for over a year , was quite impossible . |
| 12 | It had been lying empty for months , he said . |
| 13 | ‘ But it 's a lot of money for something which has been lying dead for twelve years . ’ |
| 14 | It 's been going ongoing for eighteen months two years change it |
| 15 | Jill is 60 , and , since she retired early from her job as a dinner lady , has been caring full-time for her 90-year-old bedridden mother and for her husband who has Parkinson 's disease . |
| 16 | It 's the first time they 've been to Britain , even though some have been teaching English for twenty years ; they 're staying at the Oxford House School of English , and will also visit the Oxford University Press as the trip has been made possible by an East German publishing house . |
| 17 | Well he should change his jumper , he 's been wearing that for about two weeks now . |
| 18 | I guess I 've been getting upset for too long when it was n't even necessary . |
| 19 | The Jarvis ' from Frimley Stables at Aston Upthorpe have been getting ready for their big day . |
| 20 | By the time they met , Leonard was indeed pushing hard at the doors of his own individuality — in one sense he had been doing that for years . |
| 21 | I 've been doing that for a long , long time . |
| 22 | ‘ On things like consulting with patients and carers — we 've been doing that for years . ’ |
| 23 | I thought you 'd been doing that for the thirty whatsit of July . |
| 24 | Yeah , and you 've been doing that for many many years , English |
| 25 | They 've been doing that for a they take it from and they put it in cheap cheap labour . |
| 26 | I mean they 've been doing that for half a century or more , only now it 's getting more and they ca n't . |
| 27 | I hear you say , DTP has been doing that for years Yes — but moving ones ? |
| 28 | Female nurturing is presented as the solution to male violence — as though women have n't been doing that for centuries . |
| 29 | I mean I 've been doing that for ever since we 've been on . |
| 30 | I know they 've been doing that for ages . |