Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] for [det] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The London General Omnibus Company had been experimenting for some years and , in 1910 introduced to the streets of London , their ‘ B ’ type , petrol engined , double-decker , opened top buses . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | So I should n't think he 's been driving for some time and |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Philip Larkin had already published two novels — Jill ( 1946 ) and A Girl in Winter ( 1947 ) — before he established himself in 1955 , with The Less Deceived , as the best poet of his generation ; and John Osborne 's first play ever to reach the public theatre , Look Back in Anger ( 1956 ) , was written by an actor untouched by academia who had been writing for several years and a stranger to all of them . |
| 6 | Reagan hammered away at themes which he had been developing for some years and which would be wheeled out every time he ran for public office . |
| 7 | However , the system has now been operating for many years and much good work in the safety field has resulted . |
| 8 | Athelstan studied him carefully , rather concerned , for by now Sir John would usually have been shouting for more claret or sack . |
| 9 | The vote resolved a constitutional crisis which had been brewing for some months and which had centred around Slovak demands for far-reaching autonomy in most areas of policy . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been running for several years but only up to half marathon distance , ’ he says . |
| 11 | Er you will all be aware I think that the budget has been running for some months and er I suppose a lot of you either as spokes persons or as members of groups have actually been dealing with the budget issues in some detail . |
| 12 | Sir Patrick Mayhew must have been hoping for some winners and losers , as he considers how to kick-start his talks process . |
| 13 | The Schuman Plan was based on ideas which had been circulating for some time but was devised in detail by Jean Monnet , who was in charge of France 's economic modernisation programme . |
| 14 | In the UK , this ideal has been eroding for some time and seems unlikely to survive the escalating costs of current treatments . |