Example sentences of "this [vb -s] [be] [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it maybe , you see I 've had this , this has been hanging around for a month |
| 2 | This has been hanging about for a long , long time while I 've been on this and these people and they 're very special people I 've got this sword of hanging over my head . |
| 3 | Thus conservation has become a much more difficult and demanding area , but this has been made up for by an improvement in the scientific knowledge now available to the conservator . |
| 4 | Although this has been argued over for fifty years , the size of this ancient catastrophe now seems incontrovertible . |
| 5 | ‘ This has been going on for ten years , ’ he added . |
| 6 | The real cause of the trouble is , that parents and teachers always pass on to us , as children , what they themselves have been told , and this has been going on for hundreds , or even thousands of years . |
| 7 | Now , butterflies live only a matter of weeks , and yet this has been going on for years . |
| 8 | I 'm actually concerned that if we , did anybody know about this issue earlier on because I think this has been going on for quite some time erm probably over the last two years and if anyone did know then why did n't they address it before and if anyone did n't know , why not ? |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't really think they have done enough this has been going on for some time . |
| 10 | In another class , a boy is being cross-examined on complaints by both girls and boys in the class that he has been groping them ; it emerges through class discussion that this has been going on for two years . |
| 11 | However , this has been used mainly for those whose crimes would not have sent them to prison anyway . |