Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv prt] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
| 2 | She 's only done half the course and already she has been picked out for this job . |
| 3 | Also , £192,000-worth of preference dividends have also been rolled up for future payment . |
| 4 | This policy has been carried out for some time by the OECD countries , Todorovic claimed , except that there the figure is between 4 and 6 per cent . |
| 5 | Vast areas of Rum have been fenced off for century-long experiment to re-create the natural woodland environment . |
| 6 | He recalls the efforts he made to acquire a p-38 : ‘ A Lightning that I had been pondering about for some time was owned by a chap called Merril Wayne , who ran an airline called Wayne Airlines up in Anchorage , Alaska . |
| 7 | Several racecourses would like to stage more Sunday meetings but so far no fixtures ( apart from a point-to-point ) have been drawn up for next year . |
| 8 | The bed was made , but did n't seem to have been slept in for some time , although there was a folded pair of pyjamas under the pillow . |
| 9 | Talks have been going on for some time on a range of scientific matters including fusion , nuclear safety and the environment . |
| 10 | The process has been going on for some time . |
| 11 | My head was throbbing and the shoulder was beginning to ache from the kicking , which had probably been going on for some time before I came round . |
| 12 | The argument had been going on for some time . |
| 13 | The argument must have been going on for some time , although Lucien had been hardly aware of it . |
| 14 | One thing Mam said suggested it had been going on for some time … |
| 15 | When questioned they admitted that this state of affairs had been going on for some time . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't really think they have done enough this has been going on for some time . |
| 17 | Well you say that International Women 's Day has been going on for some time , but here in Britain what 's known as the Women 's Movement has been in operation now for about , what , twenty one/twenty two years , something like that . |
| 18 | However months later he was able to start talking about his wife and the fact that they had not been getting on for some time and had begun divorce proceedings . |
| 19 | Overhead the clouds had been breaking up for some time . |
| 20 | Stone and marble fixtures weighing 400 tonnes from a garden in Boston have been shipped over for this sale . |
| 21 | Instead they acted as a brake on German economic power by milking the state of subsidy as if it had been set up for that purpose alone . |
| 22 | Individual project boards have been set up for each area of market testing . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | A Working Party has already been set up for this purpose and will have met by the time this issue of ‘ Contact ’ is published and mailed to registered Members of Convocation . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Both the NRC and the SPG and its equivalents had been known about for some time . |
| 27 | Always considered a soft touch for your face , these products have currently been coming in for more scrutiny . |
| 28 | . We still have n't got a name for this er facility , been dragging on for some time . |
| 29 | Pigs may have spent some time with the swineherd in the distant woodland , but part of the wood would have been cropped for fuel , poles , wood for repairs to buildings , fences , implements and so on , while a few trees may have been cut down for constructional work on the bridge over the Yeo or to build a new house . |
| 30 | Looks as though it had been cut out for some reason . |