Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [pron] for [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the way home , pedalling furiously , she had been nerving herself for this confrontation . |
| 2 | Ludens was by now , in an ordinary sense , more used to being with Marcus , less afraid of ‘ saying the wrong thing ’ , and had resolved today to ask a crude question which had been troubling him for some time . |
| 3 | Charlton confessed : ‘ This one has been troubling me for some time . |
| 4 | I WOULD like to post a question that has been troubling me for some time . |
| 5 | For I appear to be going round in circles in answer to a question which has been worrying me for some time . |
| 6 | Something else about the chimney-breast , I realize , has been worrying me for some time now . |
| 7 | Platt said : ‘ It has been niggling me for some time and , although it is nothing serious , it has been decided to sort it out sooner rather than later . ’ |
| 8 | She has n't heard Alina walking across the terrace , and has n't even been expecting her for another half-hour . |
| 9 | Tulagai was flushed and it was apparent that Jotan had been baiting him for some time . |
| 10 | To start with , you might have to go through the whole exercise in order to relax again but , once you have been doing it for some time , you will find that all you need to do is to picture your own peaceful scene and , because the link is permanently there in your subconscious mind , you will immediately begin to feel more peaceful , both mentally and physically . |
| 11 | IBM Corp has been doing it for some time , and now Wordperfect Corp is doing it too — applying for patents on their software rather than relying copyright law : reason is that , as the Wall Street Journal explains , a patent can provide a company with exclusive use of its patented programs for a fixed number of years , even if another company develops the idea independently ; copyright , which is created as soon as an idea is expressed in an original way , protects only the expression of the idea , not the idea itself , and it does n't confer exclusive use if someone else develops the same software independently ; downside is that getting a patent costs big — in both time and money — and once it expires , the technology it describes is free for all . |
| 12 | They 've been doing it for some time at the Biro , Perth is |
| 13 | And those of yo you who 've been doing it for some time will now realise how easy it has made the momegiture . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been doing it for some time , have n't I , love ? ’ |
| 15 | I had been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , he typed , as Harsnet had written . |
| 16 | That is why , wrote Harsnet , I have been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , that is why I have cleared the decks and prepared the ground , because unless the decks are cleared and the g round prepared there is little hope of succeeding in what one has planned to do , little hope of achieving anything of lasting value , though lasting is a relative term and so is value and whatever it is one has planned to do is certain to be altered in the process , which does not of course mean , he wrote , that one can start anywhere at any time . |
| 17 | All my life , he wrote , I have been preparing myself for this moment , but if I have prepared myself correctly then it is so that when the moment came I should not be encumbered with the sensation of having waited for it all my life , for such a sensation , wrote Harsnet , is too heavy a burden for anyone to carry . |
| 18 | You should be able to solve some problems that have been bothering you for some time , especially those connected with your work . |
| 19 | ‘ It might surprise you , Hans , but I have been watching you for some time now . |
| 20 | ‘ My organisation has been monitoring it for some time now . ’ |
| 21 | Additionally , there may be a number of general domestic or luxury items which you had been promising yourself for some time and the only question is one of actual timing , i.e. determining the right moment to buy . |
| 22 | Cohse branch secretary at Greenbank Sheila Bowes said : ‘ Nurses do n't want this move but management have been contemplating it for some time . ’ |