Example sentences of "[verb] been [verb] for week " in BNC.
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| 1 | A READER writes that she has been trying for weeks to find the outcome of the Prime Minister 's ‘ Taking Stock ’ exercise . |
| 2 | Even her departure had been delayed for weeks for want of the funds necessary to fit out her ship and escort . |
| 3 | And just in case any men out there still need to be convinced that cleanliness is next to Robert Redfordness , how about the tale of a friend of mine who was desperate to impress a woman he had been pursuing for weeks . |
| 4 | It had been waiting for weeks . |
| 5 | Other Western diplomats , local journalists and most political analysts claimed , however , that the coup had been rumoured for weeks and had a level of sophistication far greater than that expected from mostly illiterate soldiers in the ranks . |
| 6 | His flat had been closed for weeks and the fridge was empty . |
| 7 | The Lakeland fells had been baked for weeks under cloudless skies ; the becks were dry and the tarns warm enough to give refreshing dips . |
| 8 | THEY had been nit-picking for weeks . |
| 9 | Towards which we 've been striving for weeks . |
| 10 | yes you 've been promising for weeks |
| 11 | Do you know I 've been dieting for week and I feel |
| 12 | Even if it happens that I have made a firm decision to commit suicide , and have been wondering for weeks how to cheat the insurance company , the failure to jump would accord with my intention only by chance . |
| 13 | Elstree is not able to take all the aviation business that 's been displaced for weeks that I know of and , and for Hatfield I 've been notified by two people who are at present at Hatfield , one of whom is going to move to Stansted . |
| 14 | It 's been dripping for weeks and Timmy 's always falling about in the mud . ’ |