Example sentences of "been [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 61 | If a patent were to be granted to the second business , it could prevent the first from using what it has already been using for some time . |
| 62 | Division Two of this event is probably best left to Tom Jones 's Sadler 's Wells newcomer Alyakkh , about whom local work-watchers have been cooing for some time . |
| 63 | The London General Omnibus Company had been experimenting for some years and , in 1910 introduced to the streets of London , their ‘ B ’ type , petrol engined , double-decker , opened top buses . |
| 64 | Don had been experimenting for years before he took out the patent in 1970 and significantly stated that ‘ The difference in camber and relative incidence on the central fore and aft sections serves to stabilise the kite in pitch ’ . |
| 65 | Mr Vasarhelyi , who has been drawing for 30 years , has also just finished a collection of World Wide Fund for Nature stamps for export to Italy and Iceland . |
| 66 | People are realising what particularly the Belfast group has been preaching for years , that early availability of resuscitation is tremendously important . |
| 67 | Gristy had been trolling for mackerel since dawn , and had had one of his best catches ever . |
| 68 | One student looking for employment had finished his grant entitlement in the first quarter of 1984 , and had been job-seeking for six months ( Table 7.2 ) . |
| 69 | They must have been singing for , though Sharpe could hear nothing , he could see their mouths opening and closing in unison . |
| 70 | I have been singing for his lordship of Leicester . |
| 71 | Throughout 1838 , Darwin had been allowing for Lyellian competitive defeats to extinguish some species before their predetermined ageing overcame them . |
| 72 | Many had been decomposing for several weeks . |
| 73 | I reckon I should nearly be home by now — I been walking for ages . |
| 74 | I reckon I been walking for hours now . |
| 75 | And proud too , cos blimey , I been walking for ages and when I get back home she 'll think I been real clever to find my own way back , and I ai n't got a yellow card or nothing . |
| 76 | Now , after I had been walking for only seventeen days , I had almost forgotten those words . |
| 77 | I must have been walking for nearly an hour , he thought . |
| 78 | ‘ I do n't know what he meant , ’ Allen said after they had been walking for some time on the soft turf at the verge of the track . |
| 79 | After you have been walking for about ten minutes take your pulse . |
| 80 | Wait until your baby has been walking for a few weeks before taking her for the first shoe fitting , as toes are crucial in gripping the floor while learning to toddle . |
| 81 | Benjamin , who had been walking for a month , found himself less welcome in his mother 's room and followed Ruth around the house like a pet lamb . |
| 82 | She has been walking for an hour a day for more than a year , but very slowly . |
| 83 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |
| 84 | ‘ I 've been walking for a week . ’ |
| 85 | I had been walking for only a few minutes when I was surprised to see Miss Stapleton sitting on a rock ahead of me . |
| 86 | He had been walking for almost four hours . |
| 87 | They had been walking for less than ten minutes when it began to spit . |
| 88 | They 've already been walking for several weeks , many carrying their possessions in their school bags . |
| 89 | ‘ I 've been knocking for ages and all ye do is laugh up at me . ’ |
| 90 | Oh Micky Mars Bars been knocking for me , Clinton 's supposed to be knocking for me , Jay do n't know what the fuck 's he 's , he 's supposed to be doing ! |