Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [v-ing] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Concern has been growing for some time now , voiced not only by the media but also by some high-powered academics , ex-civil servants and former senior government statisticians , that official information which should be wholly objective is being distorted , suppressed or otherwise interfered with to serve the political ends of the government . |
| 32 | In the UK , this ideal has been eroding for some time and seems unlikely to survive the escalating costs of current treatments . |
| 33 | It has been occurring for many years and has been embodied in legislation such as the Housing Acts of 1935 and 1957 , although numbers of sales have fluctuated considerably according to the political complexions of the government of the day . |
| 34 | ‘ It was only an idea he had , based on the way Robert has been behaving for some time . |
| 35 | It has been playing for more than a year at the group 's Palace Theatre in Manchester , and the Playhouse has taken more than £1 million in advance bookings for it since the box office opened last week . |
| 36 | A further example is when an organisation which has been trading for many decades finds itself increasingly out of touch with the market and the organisation 's internal culture and style is no longer appropriate to the markets it is trying to address . |
| 37 | That has been happening for some time , but the Secretary of State and the Minister should know that . |
| 38 | During that week I felt the Lord speak to me and I knew that this is what I 'd been looking for all my life and I decided to follow Jesus . |
| 39 | He 'd been looking for that for ages . |
| 40 | I think that if we 'd been looking for some rather more er refined instruments of taxation , I nearly said torture , er from the continent then we might have looked er and found some rather better means of getting local money in to finance local government . |
| 41 | This was ‘ Ace 's wave ’ , the one he 'd been waiting for all his life . |
| 42 | She 'd been waiting for this moment for so long , and all she could do , now that it had finally arrived , was think the worst of him , instead of simply being happy to see him again . |
| 43 | I 'd been waiting for some opportunity to show off , to draw attention to myself . |
| 44 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 45 | ‘ I did n't even know of them until later on in my teens , after I 'd been recording for several years . |
| 46 | The trouble was , once you 'd been driving for that long , you drove right through your tiredness and out into a dreamland where only the road was moving . |
| 47 | And he 'd been rubbing for that long they 'd gone that colour . |
| 48 | Brian Inglis , a writer on the paranormal , said the spoof could have been damaging for those who had had ghostly experiences . |
| 49 | She had brushed aside the congratulations of her gynaecologist when he said , ‘ Most women would have been screaming for some kind of relief long before now . ’ |
| 50 | He must have been gouging for half an hour when an idea seemed to strike him . |
| 51 | Sir Patrick Mayhew must have been hoping for some winners and losers , as he considers how to kick-start his talks process . |
| 52 | ‘ The irony is that I did n't realise till Christmas , when I knew I loved you , that it was someone like you I should have been looking for all these years since . ’ |
| 53 | Saying that they were playing very deep , but Im sure Wallace would have been looking for those balls and giving the player in posession that option . |
| 54 | Athelstan studied him carefully , rather concerned , for by now Sir John would usually have been shouting for more claret or sack . |
| 55 | She must have been waiting for some time . |
| 56 | Eighteen months ago they would n't have been asking for more money |
| 57 | You could have been making for any one of them in a boat . |
| 58 | I am convinced that stuff had been accumulating for many years in this cellar and that Ernest Griffiths had no idea what was in there . |
| 59 | The US and North Korean governments had been communicating for several years at a low level through the US embassy in Beijing . |
| 60 | A report to the meeting said services to the region had been deteriorating for several years , with fewer trains running at less flexible times . |