Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv prt] for some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | These claims were never universally accepted ; the destruction of the unity of Christendom by the Reformation helped to undermine the authority of the Pope to allocate territory , but it was Catholic France that first challenged Spain 's position in the West Indies and that conflict had been going on for some years when in 1559 , at the end of one round of European wars , France and Spain included in the peace treaty a clause which stated that fighting in regions west of the Azores or south of the Tropic of Cancer was not to be taken as a reason for resuming hostilities in Europe . |
| 6 | ‘ My father-in-law was well aware of all this ; it has been going on for some years but he would not do what was necessary to right the situation , that is cut out the loss makers and , perhaps , substitute other lines — stationery , office equipment , videos or any other line compatible with the book trade . ’ |
| 7 | Talks have been going on for some time on a range of scientific matters including fusion , nuclear safety and the environment . |
| 8 | The process has been going on for some time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The argument had been going on for some time . |
| 11 | The argument must have been going on for some time , although Lucien had been hardly aware of it . |
| 12 | One thing Mam said suggested it had been going on for some time … |
| 13 | When questioned they admitted that this state of affairs had been going on for some time . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't really think they have done enough this has been going on for some time . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Sometimes a murder enquiry will have been going on for some days before it emerges that there is a sexual element involved . |
| 17 | The experiments , however , involved drawing fibres and blowing bubbles of molten glass and one day , after the work had been going on for some months , Lockspeiser went home leaving the gas torch used for melting the glass still burning . |
| 18 | A wider political initiative , with UN armed observers escorting food and convoys , and increased financial output , was not launched until as late as August , by which time looting of food supplies had been going on for some months . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Overhead the clouds had been breaking up for some time . |
| 21 | It 's the latest run in in a dispute which has been rumbling on for some weeks betweenthe Post office and the National Communications union . |
| 22 | Both the NRC and the SPG and its equivalents had been known about for some time . |
| 23 | . We still have n't got a name for this er facility , been dragging on for some time . |
| 24 | Looks as though it had been cut out for some reason . |
| 25 | In February the Japanese made a great effort to surround a British and Indian force in Arakan , but the result was a resounding victory for our men , who had indeed been cut off for some days , but supplied by air . |
| 26 | However , the FoE did welcome a number of proposals they had been campaigning on for some time . |
| 27 | I felt sad about this as I have several friends from my Salford days in Hong Kong , but I understand a decision to carry out this action has been put off for some time , so perhaps it was a regrettable necessity . |
| 28 | Its release had , however , been held up for some time on instructions from C. M. Woolf , a shrewd film salesman who had played a key role in financing the first projects of both Balcon and Wilcox . |