Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | Capriati has been courted for months by IMG , whose promotion , coupled with success on court , will bring their teenage client millions of dollars . |
| 2 | That was kept in a cabinet — but ‘ regrettably , ’ said Mr Boal , the lock on it had been broken for months . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll try , but I do n't think I 'll have much luck — the best models will have been booked for months . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ We been saving for months ! |
| 5 | One of the mothers has been told her husband is missing , others have n't been seen for months . |
| 6 | ‘ 63 teams from all over the UK took part , and it was clear that many had been training for months . |
| 7 | Both crews have been training for months . |
| 8 | Airline stocks , which have been surging for months on a series of high-stakes takeovers , declined after one potential target , US Air , declared lower than expected earnings . |
| 9 | She put her head into the next room , an untidy and empty bathroom which looked as though the washbasin had not been cleaned for months . |
| 10 | Back down to Earth , and having been grumbling for months about high prices and offhand service I decided last week to try TGI FRIDAY 's AMERICAN BISTRO just newly opened in Gordon Street , Glasgow . |
| 11 | Moulvi Ali Zoha , a Rohingya Muslim who arrived in Bangladesh on Monday , told United News , a Bangladeshi news agency , that the soldiers were angered when the Muslims broke open the doors of the mosque , which had been locked for months since the Burmese authorities clamped down on the Rohingyas . |
| 12 | Although polling apparently passed off peacefully , the election campaign period had reportedly been characterized by months of repression , severe restrictions and official harassment of candidates and political activists , as the military regime continued the clampdown on the pro-democracy movement which it had brutally repressed in September 1988 [ see pp. 36221-25 for background ] . |
| 13 | The existence of the tape has been known for months and a copy of it was made available to a newspaper many weeks ago . |
| 14 | Dubrovnik has been suffering for months in the Yugoslavian civil war . |
| 15 | She was not unexpected ; she had been coming for months . |
| 16 | His toe-nails looked as if a knife would blunt on them and could not have been cut for months , possibly years . |
| 17 | As for the hair which used to be trimmed by a top London stylist and had swung in a smooth shoulder-skimming bob , it had not been cut for months and was now bundled unceremoniously on to the top of her head . |
| 18 | The family had been preparing for months . |
| 19 | Students at Somerville College have been fighting for months to keep men out or their college . |
| 20 | A BLATANT attempt by South Africa to dictate the terms of next month 's elections in Namibia has been reversed after months of tough negotiations with the United Nations . |
| 21 | The city had been besieged for months but at last a breach had been forced in one of the walls . |
| 22 | Mr Wolski knew already that the old eagle had been ailing for months now and that three weeks ago they had finally taken her out of her cage and into the veterinary block to see if there was anything they could do for her . |
| 23 | He stated that in New York , regarding practical experience , the only bodies that trainee embalmers could obtain were unclaimed ones which had been refrigerated for months , and not just a few hours old , as is the popular myth in this country . |
| 24 | It could have been leaking for months . |
| 25 | Sources say Sun Microsystems Inc has been bedevilled for months by a rash of pilfering and outright thieving that 's beginning to cost it some serious money . |
| 26 | Murray said : ‘ We have been trying for months to sign the right sort of player to replace Joe Allon . |
| 27 | The army itself seems unsure of this proposition , perhaps because it is waiting to see who is most likely to meet its wage bill : many soldiers have not been paid for months . |
| 28 | ‘ Your uncle Orrin tells us that you have been missing for months , not travelling with the Parslows as we thought , and when you surface again you have the gall to question us . ’ |