Example sentences of "been [v-ing] for [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We will want to know if the warning lights had only been flashing for 10 seconds and not 30 . ’ |
| 2 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 3 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 4 | The London General Omnibus Company had been experimenting for some years and , in 1910 introduced to the streets of London , their ‘ B ’ type , petrol engined , double-decker , opened top buses . |
| 5 | Yet at the time the report was released , the actual company that was used as the basis for the research had been trading for five months and is coping well with a difficult launch period and providing to be highly successful in meeting its targets . |
| 6 | Our fellow-traveller had been mumbling for some time that he would ‘ hae tae get oot ! ’ . |
| 7 | Labour attempted to pre-empt any jobs package by stressing yesterday that it had been pressing for such measures since before Christmas . |
| 8 | It has been occurring for many years and has been embodied in legislation such as the Housing Acts of 1935 and 1957 , although numbers of sales have fluctuated considerably according to the political complexions of the government of the day . |
| 9 | So I should n't think he 's been driving for some time and |
| 10 | Lisa had been smoking for twenty years and felt unable to stop for more than a day . |
| 11 | Saying that they were playing very deep , but Im sure Wallace would have been looking for those balls and giving the player in posession that option . |
| 12 | Philip Larkin had already published two novels — Jill ( 1946 ) and A Girl in Winter ( 1947 ) — before he established himself in 1955 , with The Less Deceived , as the best poet of his generation ; and John Osborne 's first play ever to reach the public theatre , Look Back in Anger ( 1956 ) , was written by an actor untouched by academia who had been writing for several years and a stranger to all of them . |
| 13 | Reagan hammered away at themes which he had been developing for some years and which would be wheeled out every time he ran for public office . |
| 14 | Jo and Ryan had been dating for six months and had progressed some way beyond parking now . |
| 15 | However , the system has now been operating for many years and much good work in the safety field has resulted . |
| 16 | It has been operating for 12 months and has assembled a team of 30 engineering staff . |
| 17 | Grendon has been operating for 30 years and Judge Stephen Tumim 's report , published today , praises them for their standards of humanity , care and dignity . |
| 18 | Opinion : ‘ … it will not be known until Sizewell B has been operating for some years whether the PWR will become the established nuclear option that has been sought for 30 years . ’ |
| 19 | Thirty nine infants ( 18% ) in group A and 44 ( 24% ) in group B had been vomiting for three weeks or more before admission . |
| 20 | But while the exact timing of this pattern of events was unusual , the return of the overall pattern in the early 1980s comes as little surprise to some researchers , who have been warning for several years that a new drought cycle was due . |
| 21 | Intending to be a priest of the Church of England , I lost my faith , slowly but painfully , and at the end of the summer left Oxford and the house in Norham Gardens in which I had been living for two years and in which , by a curious turn of fortune , my office now is . |
| 22 | Jarvis , 51 , who is the son of a jump jockey , has been training for 21 years and Carroll House 's victory was by far his most important . |
| 23 | Athelstan studied him carefully , rather concerned , for by now Sir John would usually have been shouting for more claret or sack . |
| 24 | I went there and found that people who had been waiting for four hours or more had still not received satisfaction . |
| 25 | I just said , goodness , I said we 've been waiting for this parcel since before Christmas and he says oh have you duck . |
| 26 | So achieving Marchbanks was a gradual and thoughtful affair — I remember being taken aside by the director and given a whole day after we had been rehearsing for two weeks and simply talking together about the play and about ourselves which was the real making of the part over the next weeks of final rehearsal . |
| 27 | The team has only been going for one term and we have only played two matches against other schools . |
| 28 | ‘ I have been going for 18 years and you get fan-tastic value for money , ’ he said . |
| 29 | They 've been going for twenty years and er there 's er school is very much , I would have put you straight into schools |
| 30 | ‘ Take my word for it , I 've been going for 30 years since the well was a bucket in a hole in the ground , and there is plenty of water , ’ she said . |