Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] for [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | Much will depend on how it seeks to solve the long-running debate about merging income tax and the national insurance system ; whether benefits , including pensions , are to be universal or selective ; and , if selective , how the state is to deal with obligations to people who have been contributing for many years to what they were told was national insurance . |
| 4 | Good God , Teddy , the US arms industry has been praying for this war for years . |
| 5 | Several of the Board 's leading civil servants had been pressing for more equality in provision . |
| 6 | We 've been looking for this car as part of a murder investigation . |
| 7 | The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS . |
| 8 | The panic buying forced the Moscow city council on May 28 to announce a temporary ban on the sale of food and consumer goods in city shops to anyone unable to produce a Moscow residence permit ( such restrictions had already been operating for many weeks in Leningrad and a number of other cities ) . |
| 9 | Another , a woman who was living , and had been living for many years in , in continuous adultery ! |
| 10 | The US and North Korean governments had been communicating for several years at a low level through the US embassy in Beijing . |
| 11 | I 've been waiting for this chance since the days of the Witch of Endor . |
| 12 | It was as if she had been waiting for this moment for four years or more . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I have been waiting for some time for hon. Members to refer to my apparel and I am duly flattered . |
| 15 | Also , we have been calling for many years for legislation to get rid of the offshore tax havens of the sort that Lord Duncan-Sandys ploughed money into from Lonrho about 1970 . |
| 16 | Environmental organizations have been calling for some time for the incorporation of environmental criteria into the various CAP support mechanisms . |
| 17 | Both countries had been speaking for some time of their desire to improve relations , without making much progress . |
| 18 | It caps a deal that 's been brewing for some time for the pair to co-develop products this year that let Windows applications run on Unix desktops . |
| 19 | It caps a deal that 's been brewing for some time for the pair to co-develop products this year that enable Windows applications to run under Unix on desktop systems . |
| 20 | I am deeply interested in the row that has been brewing for some time in the heat of the nuclear arms debate , and not only because the key figure is a friend of mine . |
| 21 | Any tank that has been running for several months in a typical down-flow system will eventually become clogged and packed down . |
| 22 | Speaking to The Art Newspaper , Drouot chairman Joel-Marie Millon said : ‘ We have been asking for this measure for years . |
| 23 | A particularly influential way of studying them was outlined by Ninian Smart , one of the first members of the Shap Working Party which has been campaigning for this approach since the early 1970s : religions each have at least six dimensions : doctrinal , mythological , ethical , ritual , experiential and social . |
| 24 | She had been talking for several minutes about a party she had been to the previous evening . |
| 25 | In the end , the quacks and medicine men were left with that strange , disembodied feeling you get when you 've been talking for several minutes to someone who is n't there . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | By the time I was twelve years old I had been thinking for some time about getting a bird of my own . |
| 28 | Rumours had already been circulating for some time in the movie world that Madonna , whose big new movie will be Body Of Evidence , was discussing a new film with Sr Almodovar . |