Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [adv] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The expediter — ‘ Joy ’ — was the envoy of a client of mine : the Construction and Development Corporation of the Philippines ( CDCP ) , a local company my bank had been courting unsuccessfully for years . |
| 2 | We 've been cultivating both for centuries . |
| 3 | The horse fair has been happening here for decades and it used to be a time of celebration when the market square at Stow was filled by a Fun fair aswell , but after a flare up last year the Fair 's owners wo n't be coming back . |
| 4 | The horse fair has been happening here for decades and it used to be a time of celebration when the market square at Stow was filled by a Fun fair aswell , but after a flare up last year the Fair 's owners wo n't be coming back . |
| 5 | He 's been looking elsewhere for years . ’ |
| 6 | Mr Fitzpatrick had been looking forward for months to the holiday with his son , who attended business meetings in the US capital . |
| 7 | Mr Fitzpatrick had been looking forward for months to a holiday in the States with his son . |
| 8 | Yes , the hindquarter double-muscled trait is important and is the breed 's main attribute , but we 've been looking too for stock with good overall conformation , with loin and fleshing that we feel is vital to any successful terminal sire breed . |
| 9 | James Beggs , has been lobbying hard for money to build a fifth Shuttle-orbiter , and the academy 's assessment could help loosen the purse strings at the white House . |
| 10 | Cheshire 's chemical industry has been lobbying hard for cuts in electricity pricing . |
| 11 | Local folk have been picking here for generations and always made sure that the beds were not overfished . |
| 12 | Britain is a late runner in the modern tramway stakes , although such systems have been operating successfully for years in Continental cities . |
| 13 | Although they have been living together for years they have had no idea how the other really felt . |
| 14 | But she and Hilda have been living together for years . ’ |
| 15 | I 've been waiting here for ages . |
| 16 | ‘ They 've been waiting there for ages , ’ said Gurder . |
| 17 | As the porter said , the corpses might have been lying there for days , even weeks . |
| 18 | We 've been going together for ages . |
| 19 | The new body had been growing steadily for weeks . |
| 20 | Martinez , another Spaniard , has been rising steadily for years and seems to be reaching her peak after a great three-set victory over Sabatini in the Rome final this month . |
| 21 | The Church 's music can also be taken into the street and market-place , as the Salvation Army has been doing successfully for years . |
| 22 | He had carried her in his arms as naturally as if he had been doing so for years , and she had felt right there . |
| 23 | It was n't that long ago that John Hurt was drinking heavily , and had been doing so for years . |
| 24 | They said yes , Andrus did come on Fridays and had been doing so for years . |
| 25 | And all the students in those colleges that are studying education have been doing so for awards at the University of Sussex , so we 're actually a much bigger family than the students we have here on the site at Thelma . |
| 26 | But they had been saying so for years , for more than a decade now . |
| 27 | Some fear reprisals if they did so , although tourists have been coming here for years to fish for trout and salmon . ’ |
| 28 | I 've been hiding there for ages . |
| 29 | On top of this , the environmental time bomb that has been ticking away for years now seems ready to explode . |
| 30 | If anything , I tend to believe that it will make you unhappy : either immediately unhappy , as you are impaled by incompatibility , or unhappy later , when the woodworm has quietly been gnawing away for years and the bishop 's throne collapses . |