Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [pron] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They think I 'm reconciled , but I 've only been biding my time for a chance like this one you 've brought me now . |
| 2 | I was amazed to realise that some of them had been using their machines for five years and had no idea of the machines capabilities because all the instructions are written in either English , Spanish or Japanese ; nothing in Thai . |
| 3 | Ellis denied he was a ‘ pimp ’ and had no idea the youngster may have been using his premises for her work . |
| 4 | Trish , who has been representing her country for the last twelve years with such good horses as Manifesto and Michelangelo , only allows her horses to compete on decent surfaces . |
| 5 | ‘ Sir , we have been seeking his permission for a long time ; he will not give it . |
| 6 | The ex-Soviet Union , the world 's second-largest producer , has been selling its gold for what it would fetch , to pay its bills . |
| 7 | To become an agent , these social secretaries simply have to reverse their roles with the agents who have been selling them acts for the previous few years . |
| 8 | RIGHT : Chief teacher Kenny Roberts has been scaring his pupils for years with his killer look . |
| 9 | And this will assist the fragmentation around the imagined absoluteness of ethnic differences upon which both the New Right and the ‘ cultural nationalists ’ from the ethnic minorities have been premising their demands for cultural separatism in education ( cf. |
| 10 | " Hanslick and others " had indeed found it difficult to place Wagner 's achievements , and furthermore Wagner 's own explicit interpretation of his ideal had in recent years been shifting in an enigmatic way that impelled his articulate young admirer to offer his own clarification : here was one of those " aesthetic problems " which had been occupying his mind for some time . |
| 11 | Jones responded by reminding everyone that the DOE had been funding his work for nearly three years already , that he had positive results ready to publish , that the DOE funding agent had encouraged him to go ahead and that he was due to speak about them at the Spring Meeting of the American Physical Society in Baltimore during 1–4 May . |
| 12 | When the judge called the jury back this afternoon they 'd been considering their verdict for one and a half days . |
| 13 | Unable to take up residence in the Baabda palace occupied by Gen Aoun , this was where he had been conducting his consultations for the formation of a government of national unity . |
| 14 | Unable to take up residence in the Baabda palace occupied by Gen Aoun , this was where he had been conducting his consultations for the formation of a government of national unity . |
| 15 | Investors have been expecting its publication for the last two weeks but are fearful it will be kept back for the week when Parliament goes into the Christmas recess . |
| 16 | It 's just , he must have felt so out of it , stuck here while all our brave boys have been doing their bit for us . ’ |
| 17 | Along with many others they have all been doing their bit for our Decade of Evangelisation . |
| 18 | Both the interrogators had been doing their job for so long that they no longer thought much about what they were saying . |
| 19 | When she 'd been doing her research for this article she 'd talked to various other people in the City regarding Laura Wyndham 's expertise in her job , and they had all agreed on one thing — she was at the very top of her profession . |
| 20 | Pat had been attending my classes for a long time — years in fact . |
| 21 | He 's been running his shop for the past 30 years , selling everything from garters to saddles ! |
| 22 | Computers would compete with manual labourers , but Western countries had been losing their jobs for years already ( as anyone knows who buys plimsolls in the supermarket and reads the label . ) |
| 23 | She 'd been neglecting her work for the past day and a half . |
| 24 | Thus it was that his greatest hurdle to date had been asking his lordship for a job . |
| 25 | he was a development manager , I 've been giving 'em earache for the last year and a half , saying , you are falling behind man . |
| 26 | Of course — the other day at the Rose Bowl , when Miss Philimore had been demonstrating her system for dealing with ‘ standing orders ’ . |
| 27 | The Irish in Britain Representation Group led a march from Whittington Park calling for the release of the Birmingham 6 and the Guildford 4 , who have been protesting their innocence for the past 14 years . |
| 28 | Intelligence Agency , if he had been twiddling his thumbs for a week , he might just have been a little determined himself . |
| 29 | Politicians and political parties for some months prior to the announcement of the date of the election had been making their arrangements for manifestoes and candidates . |
| 30 | Also we 've been arguing our claim for the sparsity factor , in other words , the national reduction of one hundred and sixty one million in ninety-four , ninety-five compared to ninety-three , ninety-four for the sparsity factor . |