Example sentences of "been [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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1 | It endorsed British industry 's achievements under the policies that we have been pursuing for the past 12 years , urged us to continue and build upon them in future and condemned utterly the sort of policies still advocated by the Labour party , which is stuck in a mind-set of the 1960s and 1970s . |
2 | And just in case any men out there still need to be convinced that cleanliness is next to Robert Redfordness , how about the tale of a friend of mine who was desperate to impress a woman he had been pursuing for weeks . |
3 | I did not tell him that his imitation of the French was far more like what I had been seeing for the past year . |
4 | Is n't this what you 've been angling for ever since we crashed ? |
5 | The opposition , a diverse and mostly respectable group of people who have been clamouring for a bit of say in the new Kuwait , did not get even a token position . |
6 | The press has been clamouring for ‘ new faces and new measures ’ . |
7 | Nobody left the queue : they were n't going to lose their place , they 'd been queueing for an hour . |
8 | ‘ We will want to know if the warning lights had only been flashing for 10 seconds and not 30 . ’ |
9 | The Guildford Four have been canvassing for Jeremy Corbyn in Islington . |
10 | Indications of Mr Mandela 's growing political stature in the eyes of the government have been accumulating for some time . |
11 | Their goodness has helped to make up the huge amount of goodness which has been accumulating for thousands of years and which we call the Created God . ’ |
12 | 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 . |
13 | To some degree they had already been catering for children with special needs . |
14 | The gallery ‘ gelbe MUSIK ’ has been catering for the specialists and the curious for ten years and celebrates its anniversary this spring . |
15 | I 'd been caddying for Ralph Moffatt on the pro circuit and got him through the pre-qualifier at Fairhaven , so I told him I 'd be caddying for him in the Open as I 'd heard nothing from Jack . |
16 | By the time he and Norman strode out to try to win the 1986 British Open , Bender had been caddying for eighteen years , having picked up his first serious bag when he was 18 years old . |
17 | ‘ Well , he has been caddying for Harley in Europe , and he did win one tournament and finished equal second in the other . |
18 | Mr Lindsey said that , from 5 January , S&P were offering a variable Tessa paying an initial 7.5% , against the fixed rate version at 5.875% , which is slightly higher than the average that S&P , as a group , has been forecasting for the financial year beginning in April 1993 . |
19 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
20 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
21 | This was the moment Lynch had been building for all his life . |
22 | In his own way , Ted had been building for this moment too . |
23 | The Darkfall storm had been building for quite some time , generating itself , growing stronger . |
24 | This did not prove a problem because since 1828 Stephenson 's had been building for abroad . |
25 | Second , the fall in unemployment adds something to the theory that the economy has in fact been recovering for a good deal longer than generally realised . |
26 | This gives the guitarist the same facility for storing and recalling a library of sounds that keyboard players have been enjoying for years . |
27 | Bernard and Laura escaped on to their sailing boat for much of the summer , a yacht they had been enjoying for some years now , and they pottered around Mykonos in Greece . |
28 | They have n't noticed the so-called economic boom Chile 's been enjoying for the last twenty years . |
29 | Volunteers such as the receptionist form the backbone of the hospice and volunteer sitters have been helping for five years . |
30 | Nurses who have been nursing for some time are likely to have reached the stage where much of what they do has become automatic , that is , carried out without conscious thought or awareness . |