Example sentences of "been [verb] the [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps you have n't been given the opportunity for sufficient consideration . |
| 2 | , business director of Courtaulds Aerospace in Germany , said it was the first time in the world that a chromate-free coating had been given the go-ahead for civil aircraft manufacture . |
| 3 | I 've been using the Strats for four or five years ; it 's nice to have that more defined sound , and more variety of tone than the Ibanez and Gibsons I used to use . |
| 4 | BP Exploration has been using the process for three years and is finding it popular and productive . |
| 5 | Before the Swinbrook farmer had finished talking to them , Boz leaped to his feet to say , angrily , ‘ We Romanies have been using the forest for hundreds of years . |
| 6 | Richard , who started work at the University in 1969 as assistant cook in the halls of residence , has been Assistant Catering Manager since 1973 , based at the Revis Barber and Dennis Bellamy Halls , where his deputy , head cook Ian Wade has been ruling the kitchens for 24 years . |
| 7 | He 's been driving the go-kart for 18 months so he 's really quite experienced . |
| 8 | The PBAA has been lobbying the government for public television for over ten years and is looking forward to contributing to this inquiry process . |
| 9 | Self taught , Albert , who is a relative of George Barron , of BBC TV 's Beechgrove Garden fame , has been tending the gardens for 16 years and has been a consistent winner in the gardens competition over the years . |
| 10 | One of the benefits that has emerged from the National Curriculum exercise has been to highlight the need for strategic planning of the history curriculum at all Key Stages , to ensure balance , coverage of a range of different periods and topics , and the adoption of a number of different approaches . |
| 11 | But its time-saving qualities — up to 30 minutes each day for each teacher — attracted the St George 's School for Boys in Southampton , which has been piloting the system for two years . |
| 12 | Norwegian scientists who have been testing the seas for several years have yet to detect any significant radioactive contaminating of fish , but they have not yet tested the water near the dumping sites . |
| 13 | HP is known to have been casing the industry for new directions — a process witnessed by the winding down of its New Wave interface efforts — and is now thought to be closing in for a piece of Taligent Inc ( UX No 417 ) , the Apple Computer Inc/IBM Corp joint venture on object-oriented operating system technology . |
| 14 | He 's been feeding the birds for twenty years , and he still finds it exciting . |
| 15 | Following the review of the British Library 's acquisition and retention policies , published in 1989 , a Working Group , including the National Library of Scotland , has been considering the scope for co-ordinating collection policies among the legal deposit libraries . |
| 16 | We have been considering the problem for some time — — unlike the right hon. Gentleman , who has only just discovered it . |
| 17 | ‘ Perhaps I should sell the place and be done with it , ’ he said with an abruptness that showed he 'd been considering the idea for some time . |
| 18 | Mr Moore had been displaying the Spitfire for nine years before the accident , and was regarded very highly as a master of the machine |
| 19 | ‘ We 'd been doing the video for eight hours straight , everything was getting loose and they say , we wan na do a hand-held sequence , just go for it , run around the room and do whatever you want . |
| 20 | on a limited number of schemes we have been doing the estimates for four or five years |
| 21 | He 's been doing the journey for fifteen years because he says he loves living in the country . |
| 22 | I 've been doing the route for two years now . |
| 23 | They had been defending the building for 31 days and there was blood on the floor . |
| 24 | The move should help stimulate economies on the continent where recession has been weakening the market for British exports . |
| 25 | Dr Brenda Boardman from Oxford University 's Environmental Change Unit has been studying the impact for low income households of VAT on fuel . |
| 26 | In anticipation of this , and at a time when the economy was already in grave crisis as a result of the US economic embargo , the collapse of trade with eastern Europe ( currently down by an estimated 90 per cent ) and poor sugar harvests , the Cuban government had been preparing the population for worse times ahead . |
| 27 | With hindsight , one can see how Mr Gorbachev has been preparing the ground for this week 's changes . |
| 28 | Protestors have been fighting the plans for two months . |
| 29 | They 'd been watching the premises for several months . |
| 30 | They 'd been watching the site for some time . |