Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] for [det] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Carey continued : ‘ I doubt if He would have been impressed by the argument that the goats had been waiting for these things to trickle down as a by-product of economic growth . ’ |
| 3 | I 'd been waiting for some opportunity to show off , to draw attention to myself . |
| 4 | This latest development in a saga which has been running for many months represents a change of heart by the Saints ' board . |
| 5 | The Old Stopfordians ' Association had been trying for many years to raise sufficient money to build the Pavilion , and indeed had sold the Harrison Towns field some three years previously for this very reason . |
| 6 | Brian Clough has been trying for several weeks to recapture the man he sees as a key player in his fight to lift Forest off the bottom of the Premier League . |
| 7 | Mr Kemp has been trying for several years to prod the White House into launching a serious anti-poverty programme . |
| 8 | We 've been trying for some time to employ as many players as possible during the winter , and this sponsorship means that it should be possible to take the worry of finding winter employment away from virtually all of them . |