Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [adv prt] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 2 | Well it maybe , you see I 've had this , this has been hanging around for a month |
| 3 | This has been hanging about for a long , long time while I 've been on this and these people and they 're very special people I 've got this sword of hanging over my head . |
| 4 | I raised with David Ingram at my JAR a matter which I 've been mulling over for a while , arising from my role as Welfare Officer . |
| 5 | You 've been mooning about for a few weeks , ’ she chuckled , ruefully . |
| 6 | It proved to be a surprisingly accurate account of what in the event did happen , and is outlined here to illustrate the way in which , in one corner of Oxfordshire , changes which had been argued over for a decade could be effected in a relatively short time . |
| 7 | In patient 10 , who had been operated on for a bleeding ulcer seven years previously , a gastric lymphoma was diagnosed on the basis of biopsy specimens . |
| 8 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 9 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 11 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 12 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
| 13 | It is part of a rather complicated arrangement that has been going on for a few years now . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
| 15 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
| 16 | ‘ These stories have been going round for a long time , and they grow with the telling . ’ |
| 17 | I was sorry for Jennifer but they had only been going out for a month or so , and not terribly seriously . |
| 18 | A twenty year old man has been called in for a chat with an inspector . |
| 19 | Within minutes the car was free , and before I could thank the young farmer I 'd been invited back for a cup of tea and some hot broth . |
| 20 | You might say that this thing had been brewing up for a long time , that the threat was there ; they had n't seen it . |
| 21 | East Belfast-based midfielder Keery ( 28 ) has been holding out for a better deal than the one on offer . |
| 22 | By this time , Lou and Charlie had moved too — the business had been running down for a long period and there was no point in staying in a flat over a shop that did n't exist any more . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's been laid up for a while with a problem in the starting mechanism , but a friend is now completing a repair job for me , and we hope to be up and running again soon , ’ explained Gordon , pictured with the vehicle 's log-book . |
| 24 | Peter Tomlinson , inexperienced in television terms , had been brought in for a key " anchor " role and I could appreciate the excessive pressure on him . |
| 25 | Hills said : ‘ She has been crying out for a mile , and the way the race was run she has been lucky enough not to have had too hard a race . ’ |
| 26 | This was a house where four IRA men , surrounded by the police , had been holed up for a number of days . |
| 27 | The old Moscow publishers Iskusstvo managed to release just one book last year , and having exhausted its resources , it was forced to suspend publication of the journal Iskusstvo , which has been coming out for a number of decades . |
| 28 | It 's dragging on , it 's been dragging on for a year , but I 'm getting there slowly and I feel a lot more confident than last time . |
| 29 | We use this way in to stop people stealing what gear we have.Andy has been scratching around for a regular roof over his head for a year , ever since he lost his job and his home burned down in a fire . |
| 30 | Controls comprised 21 patients with ileal pouches constructed during the same period who had been followed up for a mean duration of 43 months ( range 15–119 months ) and who had had endoscopies that showed no evidence of active inflammation . |