Example sentences of "he [verb] [been] [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is clear that he has been speaking for some time . |
| 2 | The thing is , he has been using for such a long time . |
| 3 | He has been writing for some time , starting with horror , and has more recently turned to the psychological thriller . |
| 4 | Thus , a Keeper of Italian Painting would have responsibility for the Italian drawings , thereby not only linking their administration and scholarly maintenance but also bringing drawing into the direct relationship with painting which Clifford says he has been advocating for many years . |
| 5 | When Ellcock announced his retirement from first-class cricket at the age of 216 after Middlesex 's pre-season tour to Portugal , he was finally admitting defeat in a struggle to overcome back problems he has been fighting for much of his 10-year career . |
| 6 | Mr Boris Yeltsin , the president of Russia , may have won the battle , but he has not yet won the war he has been fighting for more than half a year with the Congress of People 's Deputies . |
| 7 | No individual can sell or receive commission on investment business , unless he has been working for that same Company for at least five continuous years . |
| 8 | He 'd been looking for that for ages . |
| 9 | And he 'd been rubbing for that long they 'd gone that colour . |
| 10 | This was ‘ Ace 's wave ’ , the one he 'd been waiting for all his life . |
| 11 | He had been speaking for some five minutes or more with force and conviction , carried away by the things which concerned him greatly . |
| 12 | Film shown on Algerian television that same evening recorded that he had been speaking for some minutes . |
| 13 | Jagatan raised himself on one elbow , and Burun guessed that he had been drinking for most of the afternoon . |
| 14 | He had been observed for some time in the recovery unit as his central venous pressure and blood pressure were low . |
| 15 | By now he had had confirmation of the news he had been expecting for some time . |
| 16 | ‘ Our information is that Mr Evans left the Club in order to go and see what was delaying the arrival of his wife whom he had been expecting for some time . ’ |
| 17 | The most recent outstanding event in Jim 's distinguished career was the publication of his definitive catalogue of the collections of Christ Church , Oxford , on which he had been engaged for several years , coinciding with the opening of the new galleries to contain them . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He had found the one he had been searching for all those years — the one wavering on the brink of eternal damnation . |
| 20 | The possibility that he had been killed for some reason connected with his father 's letters did not occur to Derek . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It was probably the first time he had been asked for such a drink , despite his long years of service . |
| 23 | Not for the first time Rostov wondered why he had been selected for this particular mission . |
| 24 | As everyone turned to look at him , Jinny realized that he had been waiting for this moment all the time he was explaining his plan . |
| 25 | He looked as if he had been waiting for some time . |
| 26 | He tried fitfully to proceed with a short prose book on the nature of culture which he had been contemplating for some time , but by the end of 1942 had produced only a first draft of two chapters : this must be the source of the four essays which appeared in the New English Weekly during January and February 1943 under the title , " Notes toward a Definition of Culture " . |
| 27 | In his paper , Beveridge repeated what he had been saying for some time , namely , that there was no general breakdown of the labour-market , instead there was an overstocking of individual trades which was due to ‘ inadequate labour information and local hindrances to labour mobility ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ I asked him how he had been chosen for this honour and he told me ‘ I was pushed ’ ’ . |
| 29 | No in fact he 's not , he 's been arrested for some other crime . |
| 30 | Now he 's been banned for another 12 months at Banbury , Oxfordshire . |