Example sentences of "[Wh pn] has been [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A much fresher horse who has been trained for this all season is Brown Windsor , fourth two years ago . |
| 2 | The crowds at Constitution Dock cheered the owner who has been trying for 20 years to score a major success in this race . |
| 3 | ‘ We can hear the phones , and it saves a trek downstairs , ’ says Sheila , who has been smoking for 25 years . |
| 4 | Mr Vasarhelyi , who has been drawing for 30 years , has also just finished a collection of World Wide Fund for Nature stamps for export to Italy and Iceland . |
| 5 | Some disagree with this line of thinking — notably Ichiro Ozawa , the secretary-general of Japan 's ruling party , who has been arguing for Japanese soldiers to be sent to the Gulf in a non-combat role — but they have not had much luck making their case . |
| 6 | ‘ Obviously , anyone who has been oppressed for 40 years will have among their number people who want to make the complete lunge towards a so-called free market utopia . |
| 7 | One of the rebels , vice-chairman Ronnie Teese , 56 , who has been banned for 12 months , said the club was ‘ terrified of the can of worms they might find ’ . |
| 8 | POLICE believe a body washed up on a beach in Kent might be that of a young Essex woman who has been missing for two months . |