Example sentences of "[vb infin] been [verb] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm the issue is is that potentially you could be goi we could 've been going for four point three extra people and we probably wo n't do that . |
| 2 | Some of these workers may have just entered the labour market from school , some may have been made redundant from their previous jobs , some may have been sacked for one reason or another and many will have quit their previous jobs in order to create time to search for more satisfactory ones . |
| 3 | This means that if , for example , the cooking cycle is programmed for two-and-a-half minutes at a required temperature the machine will adjust to compensate for the fall in temperature which occurs when a frozen or chilled food will have been cooked for two-and-a-half minutes at the correct temperature . |
| 4 | At 10 o'clock when the Division bell goes , the House will have been sitting for seven and a half hours , from prayers through questions , statements and this debate . |
| 5 | In real life he would have been sued for millions and his story turned into a mini-series , but it 's nice to dream . |
| 6 | The hostages could not have been held for ten minutes without Syrian permission . |