Example sentences of "they have [been] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Illegal shipments seized at customs went round like a kiss at a party — police , SAS , departments like the one Todd ran … then on to the people they 'd been intended for in the first place — the syndicates who brought them down to street level , street prices . |
| 2 | ‘ When they 'd been separated for ten years , ’ said Mr Brownlow , ‘ your father met another family . |
| 3 | Nobody left the queue : they were n't going to lose their place , they 'd been queueing for an hour . |
| 4 | But then , when you said they 'd been gone for a couple of years … ’ |
| 5 | They 'd been gone for so long now . |
| 6 | It ran beside a broad , shaded boulevard of feathery pepper trees , and the sudden sight of European-style buildings made him reflect that the jungles , fields and villages through which they 'd been moving for the past few hours had remained unchanging throughout many centuries . |
| 7 | They 'd been heading for a festival in Chipping Sodbury , but had been diverted by police . |
| 8 | That 's what they 'd been fighting for for twenty years . |
| 9 | They 'd been waiting for me , it seemed , in a mutual absence of civility . |
| 10 | The fog lifted and the house became filled with a babble of excitable people , few of whom spoke English and who all arrived at once because they 'd been waiting for a clear passage . |
| 11 | They 'd been waiting for a council house for 5 years . |
| 12 | The third she found broken , knocked over on to its side , the water dripping from a puddle on the windowsill on to a seat below and through that on to the floor , and the flowers scattered and brown-edged , as if they 'd been picked for their beauty and freshness by a little girl and then loosed regardlessly on the path from her sticky hands as she ran off to do something else . |
| 13 | They 've been digging for the chemicals , been tortured and crucified , again and again . |
| 14 | It was found in a garden where they 've been digging for the past six weeks . |
| 15 | Of course not , they 've been elected for a period , they serve to the end of that period , whether they 're made redundant or not , so they go on for the four year term . |
| 16 | That as they 've been made redundant , as they 've been victimized for trade union activity possibly , we then as a union decide that they can not stand for office ? |
| 17 | He , too , married a girl of his own milieu ; they 've been separated for many years . |
| 18 | They 've been expanding for the last four years . |
| 19 | They 've been calling for an alternative route to the A 421 since World War Two . |
| 20 | He said , ‘ In fact , they 've been looking for him . |
| 21 | They 've been looking for me to take me back . ’ |
| 22 | They 've been created for us by none other than Mr. Ken Lo , restaurateur and leading authority on Chinese food . |
| 23 | Then nine tenths of the rubbish they 've been printing for the last few weeks will be seen for what it is . |
| 24 | they 've been done for many years |
| 25 | They 've been engaged for a year , and it was decided the wedding could take place during August , when there is just routine spraying and pruning to be done , well before the vendange itself , when I can not do without him . ’ |
| 26 | They 'd be secondhand shoes because they 've been worn for three days . |
| 27 | Aggie 's friend knows about him , but , as he said , they ca n't pin anything on to him ; they 've been tryin' for a long time . |
| 28 | But if you can actually influence the French let us know because , or let the government know , because they , they 've been trying for years ever since Napoleon 's day , to try and do something . |
| 29 | It 's tempting , but probably inadvisable , to accept their statements — often pat slogans they 've been repeating for years — at face value . |
| 30 | Register Office , handful of guests , parents optional , drink-up at couple 's house ( in which they 've been living for several years already ) . |