Example sentences of "they have been [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody left the queue : they were n't going to lose their place , they 'd been queueing for an hour . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They 'd been heading for a festival in Chipping Sodbury , but had been diverted by police . |
| 4 | That 's what they 'd been fighting for for twenty years . |
| 5 | They 'd been waiting for me , it seemed , in a mutual absence of civility . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They 'd been waiting for a council house for 5 years . |
| 8 | They 've been digging for the chemicals , been tortured and crucified , again and again . |
| 9 | It was found in a garden where they 've been digging for the past six weeks . |
| 10 | They 've been expanding for the last four years . |
| 11 | They 've been calling for an alternative route to the A 421 since World War Two . |
| 12 | He said , ‘ In fact , they 've been looking for him . |
| 13 | They 've been looking for me to take me back . ’ |
| 14 | Then nine tenths of the rubbish they 've been printing for the last few weeks will be seen for what it is . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It 's tempting , but probably inadvisable , to accept their statements — often pat slogans they 've been repeating for years — at face value . |
| 18 | Register Office , handful of guests , parents optional , drink-up at couple 's house ( in which they 've been living for several years already ) . |
| 19 | They 've been living for the last ten years in an environment where they expect there to be a high level of occult activity in society . |
| 20 | They 've been advertising for more than six weeks … at the job centre in the local papers and on the radio . |
| 21 | They 've been waiting for it . |
| 22 | It 's the chance they 've been waiting for . |
| 23 | Paul Groombridge says it 's the good news they 've been waiting for . |
| 24 | A game of tag ( see below ) may well be just the thing ; but if they 've just come in from the playground and that 's what they 've been doing for the last fifteen minutes , it would be a bit of a waste of time . |
| 25 | Oxford ca n't grumble they 've been winning for 15 years … its Cambridge 's turn but Oxford will be back on top next year |
| 26 | Maurice Hope held a similar view , though he favoured social rather than genetic factors : ‘ Black people are natural fighters ; they 've been fighting for survival and they 've been in that condition all their lives . |
| 27 | The women who do , I suspect , may never see those first grey hairs at all ; they 've been highlighting for so long that the colour of their hair has always been a matter of choice . |
| 28 | A lot of people started handing in pellet guns and antique muzzle-loaders they 've been keeping for years without a licence . |
| 29 | They 've been revolting for years under the surface and then some thing happens that make it possible course the continued revolutions have gone on through the world and because they 've seen the success of a revolution in Russia although we did n't know the full facts of it in the West , it was , it did establish a huge area in the wake of a revolution . |
| 30 | All except , I can see , you know when they 've been asking for this money ? |