Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [adv] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toleration as wide-ranging as this would not have been acceptable in England , where hostility to Roman Catholicism had been building up for seventy years since Mary Tudor 's attempt to wipe out Protestantism . |
| 2 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
| 3 | She went humming upstairs to clean the bathroom , while Winnie turned over in her mind a plan which had been lurking there for some time . |
| 4 | The store had not been trading profitably for some time indicating there simply is not enough money circulating in the area to sustain it . |
| 5 | Since then , various voluntary groups throughout the campus , the UK and abroad have come forward with names and addresses of active alumni , some of whom have been networking enthusiastically for many years outwith the official organisation of either the Graduates Association of the University . |
| 6 | When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England . |
| 7 | Proteon 's announcement that it is splitting its business into two divisions ( one for adaptor boards and wiring centres ; the other for internetworking and intelligent hub systems ) is in line with what has been happening internally for some time , says Swan . |
| 8 | Obviously Stirling had been lobbying hard for new blood . |
| 9 | The export department of Stoddard Carpets has been operating successfully for 26 years . |
| 10 | I see you 've got no carpets down anywhere the door 's not painted and he said you 've been living here for two years ! |
| 11 | They have been living here for seven years but now they are being inundated by refuse . |
| 12 | The Revenue treat the separation as likely to be permanent if the parties have been living apart for one year ( Pinson on Revenue Law , 17th edn , para 38 – 04 ) . |
| 13 | Mrs Probyn 's husband has told police that the pair , who 've been living apart for several months , had a row . |
| 14 | As most people in South Africa know , they have been living apart for some while — ostensibly on security grounds . |
| 15 | Following township rumours that the Mandelas had been living apart for some weeks , the Sowetan newspaper said Mrs Mandela continued to live in the mansion she had built in a better part of Soweto but Mr Mandela had moved into a well-guarded home in Johannesburg 's affluent northern suburbs . |
| 16 | Anyway , they know each other pretty well , having been living together for two years now . |
| 17 | They 'd been living together for many years . |
| 18 | He had been trembling violently for several hours but now no sound came from the place where he lay . |
| 19 | Searle was not the only person at this time to conclude that since the Lefevre Gallery had told Minton ‘ Moons are out ’ , he had been searching round for new solutions which visits abroad solved only temporarily . |
| 20 | Bruno 's been training hard for this fight in Leicester . |
| 21 | They 've been hunting here for 150 years . |
| 22 | What happened , people should have been paying in for ten years were suddenly taking out for ten years and these huge enormous sums and obviously the surplus which our members had helped to build up er and provide through the years and we 've got seventy-five year olds on you know , extremely low pensions hardly making ends meet , and there were vast sums of money being given away to the employees , that the employers took a contribution holiday and so they were n't paying into the fund either you know , and all the profits of B T as you all know were soaring and partially because of the use of the pension funds and this has greatly obviously erm upset our members and we feel very strongly about it . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been waiting here for two hours , Fagin , ’ said the stranger . |
| 25 | I 've been waiting here for ten minutes = I 'm waiting here ten minutes |
| 26 | When she was found they reckoned she 'd been lying there for three hours . |
| 27 | I 've been going downhill for several days now . |
| 28 | ‘ They realised just what the people in Northern Ireland have been going through for 25 years . |
| 29 | Efforts to procure his extradition , which have been going on for five years , and which seemed for a time to have been successful , have now been thwarted , at least for the moment . |
| 30 | Is he aware that the negotiations have been going on for five years , that we must have a replacement for the multi-fibre arrangement that will enable our textiles to penetrate the markets of countries which do not allow any textiles in and those with tariffs of 200 per cent. , and that even the United States has a tariff of 36 per cent . |