Example sentences of "been [verb] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | I 've been using RapidCad for a month or so and It 's not given me the slightest problem . |
| 32 | These schools have been using microcomputers for three years and have had substantial teacher training , provision of materials and other support services from the ILEA . |
| 33 | James told magistrates that he had been using speed for about five years and injected himself three or four times a month . |
| 34 | I have been using pastels for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
| 35 | As in the first survey , over 90 per cent of the opioid users attending Wirral 's main two facilities for drug users were daily users of heroin , and had been using heroin for between six months and five years . |
| 36 | As in the first survey , over 90 per cent of the opioid users attending Wirral 's main treatment facilities in 1985–6 were daily users of heroin , who had been using heroin for between six months and five years . |
| 37 | Consequently , the sample group had been using heroin for an average of five years when they were interviewed . |
| 38 | Given that most of the interviewee group had been using heroin for between four and five years , most had contacted their GP , and frequently several different GPs , on a number of occasions . |
| 39 | Second , almost three-quarters of these interviewees had been using heroin for two years or less by the start of the prevalence study period . |
| 40 | However , given that users in the hidden sector are slightly younger , and have not been using heroin for as long as the known users , it does seem highly likely that many more of these ‘ hidden ’ users will surface , either because of prosecution , pregnancy , physical illness or their own decision to seek help of some sort . |
| 41 | I have been following with interest the Gardeners ' World programmes where Nigel Colborn had been designing a new garden , especially when he had been using plants for the shady corner . |
| 42 | ‘ I 've been using Departures for nearly ten years , with mixed nationality classes and with monolingual groups . |
| 43 | Born in 1908 , Maitre Lelièpvre has been drawing horses for most of his life , and sold his first painting at the age of eight . |
| 44 | During that time BP has held a small interest in offshore block 8 and has been designated operator for onshore Cabinda Central block , where operations have been suspended for security reasons . |
| 45 | Moreover Apple , and its partner in Taligent , IBM Corp , have been downplaying expectations for the Taligent environment . |
| 46 | Moreover Apple , and its partner in Taligent , IBM Corp , have been downplaying expectations for the Taligent environment . |
| 47 | Perhaps the best known version is Shakespeare 's seven ages of man which is a poetic statement of what had already been received wisdom for centuries and was to remain so for centuries to come . |
| 48 | I could n't agree more with those who 've been praising Newsome for his performances over the Christmas games . |
| 49 | In closing the hospitals the health authority has been purchasing care for those people that let you care for them in a variety of settings and support . |
| 50 | ‘ But on a point of handicapping , why has he been raised 4lb after finishing second in the Mackeson , while Desert Orchid has been dropped 2lb for finishing second to Long Engagement ? ’ |
| 51 | To the end — or at least to his testimony in Poindexter 's trial , in 1990 — Reagan maintained he did not believe that he had been trading arms for hostages . |
| 52 | Er , it started in eighteen fifty six , had been currying leather for the saddlery trade all those years and it was then a subsidiary to and was making saddlery leather for them , but in addition , quite a large production of fancy leather for the local light leather goods trade . |
| 53 | He had been photographing O'Keeffe for over five years , and among the 45 prints of her he displayed were extraordinarily candid images of her body , as well as images in which she gestured provocatively , her arms and hands echoing the arrangement of forms in her abstractions , which served as backgrounds . |
| 54 | I 've been on this circuit for six months now , but I 've been driving cabs for twenty-four years . |
| 55 | Although Kerrey 's campaign was lifted by this success , on the following day it suffered a setback when it was revealed that a restaurant chain of which he was part-owner had been fined $64,000 for 116 violations of child protection laws . |
| 56 | A MOTORIST has been fined £50 for brushing his hair and admiring his looks as he drove at 50mph . |
| 57 | GREAT Britain full back Graham Steadman has been fined £1,000 for failing a drugs test after the last match of this summer 's Lions tour . |
| 58 | WAQAR YOUNIS 'S county Surrey have been fined £1,000 for repeated ball-tampering over a three-year period . |
| 59 | The chemical company Albright and Wilson has been fined £1,000 for polluting the Irish Sea near its works in Whitehaven , Cumbria , six weeks after it was fined £2,000 for another pollution offence . |
| 60 | SEVE BALLESTEROS yesterday extended the hand of sympathy to Scotland 's leading golfer , Colin Montgomerie , who has been fined £1,000 for comments he made about last week 's Moroccan Open . |