Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [v-ing] for [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I did n't even know of them until later on in my teens , after I 'd been recording for several years . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The US and North Korean governments had been communicating for several years at a low level through the US embassy in Beijing . |
| 4 | A report to the meeting said services to the region had been deteriorating for several years , with fewer trains running at less flexible times . |
| 5 | A report to the meeting said services to the region had been deteriorating for several years , with fewer trains at less flexible times . |
| 6 | Film shown on Algerian television that same evening recorded that he had been speaking for some minutes . |
| 7 | To judge by the clutter of bottles , glasses , and over-filled ashtrays , and the brooding , weary faces , they had been debating for many hours . |
| 8 | Many had been decomposing for several weeks . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It would have been more usual to have asked her with careful casualness to wait behind after the meeting but what he had to say was private and he had been trying for some weeks now to cut down the number of times when they were known to be alone together . |
| 11 | All had been festering for many years . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Another , a woman who was living , and had been living for many years in , in continuous adultery ! |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The garden city lobby alleged that the vested interests of London had worked against a decentralist approach , for which it had been striving for many years , and F.J. Osborn acknowledged in correspondence with Lewis Mumford that the Plan was a bitter disappointment to him and the Town and Country Planning Association ( TCPA ) : |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Nevertheless the king had restored to government and policy-making an element of continuity and decision which had been lacking for many years . |
| 19 | He realised they had been watching for some minutes before he noticed them . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This was interesting ; some tritium was occurring naturally in the heavy water and when they measured the tritium levels after the experiment had been running for some hours they found that the tritium level had dropped . |
| 22 | It may also have been that the government was unwilling to lend further strength to the clamour for the reform of the Official Secrets Act ( which has now happened ) that had been mounting for some years . |
| 23 | Duncan , whose health had been failing for several years , died in West Park , Elgin , 23 May 1863 . |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | In the Philippines last year , an investigation team found two ‘ disappeared ’ women who had been missing for several months . |
| 26 | And the NRPB 's move also emphasized a process that had been continuing for many years . |
| 27 | The power of Chaos had been growing for some years . |
| 28 | Manning Jackson had been fretting for several minutes . |
| 29 | Labour attempted to pre-empt any jobs package by stressing yesterday that it had been pressing for such measures since before Christmas . |
| 30 | In late August I was finishing my day at the heart clinic , where I had been working for several months , when I decided that it was time to go . |