Example sentences of "[vb base] [been] [verb] [adv prt] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been racing around for most of the day . |
| 2 | I 'm not , I 've been sitting down for half an hour . |
| 3 | She said people receiving the letter should not worry that they have been singled out for any genuine reason . |
| 4 | The Cavaliers and Roundheads have been stocking up for another season , re-enacting the English Civil War . |
| 5 | Individual project boards have been set up for each area of market testing . |
| 6 | Another common advance ordering practice is that of selecting books a few months before publication , after scrutiny of information provided by library suppliers or ( in the case of academic libraries ) by specialized alerting services which have been set up for this purpose . |
| 7 | The lessons are recorded so that the trainee 's performance can be reviewed and measured against criteria which have been set down for that skill . |
| 8 | ‘ You have been thrown over for another woman , that 's what I think . |
| 9 | Stone and marble fixtures weighing 400 tonnes from a garden in Boston have been shipped over for this sale . |
| 10 | Similar schemes have been drawn up for several mammalian groups , certain butterfly genera , various reptiles and amphibians while a good deal of work has been carried out on the distributions of the avifauna . |
| 11 | A great deal of technological work has been done recently on the seasoning of wood , and safe accelerated drying schedules have been worked out for all kinds and dimensions of timber . |
| 12 | Siemens says that few major innovations have been brought out for this small but very steady market for the past 10 years , which should guarantee take-up . |
| 13 | Although this written account is extremely tenuous , patient archaeological excavations that have been going on for many years on Santorin are beginning to reveal a story to rival that of Pompeii . |
| 14 | Talks have been going on for some time on a range of scientific matters including fusion , nuclear safety and the environment . |
| 15 | Pilot tests have been carried out for much of this year with both the Choice loans package and direct access , but TSB Direct was formally established on November 1 . |