Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [adv] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite all the money the Politicals had been siphoning off for years , a very sore point with the rest of us , they claimed to have no material on the terrorists beyond a few isolated descriptions and photographs . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There 's a racket goin' on , Aggie ; but you know as well as me it 's been goin' on for years . |
| 4 | We 've been cultivating both for centuries . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He 's been looking elsewhere for years . ’ |
| 8 | Mr Fitzpatrick had been looking forward for months to the holiday with his son , who attended business meetings in the US capital . |
| 9 | Mr Fitzpatrick had been looking forward for months to a holiday in the States with his son . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Cheshire 's chemical industry has been lobbying hard for cuts in electricity pricing . |
| 13 | Local folk have been picking here for generations and always made sure that the beds were not overfished . |
| 14 | Britain is a late runner in the modern tramway stakes , although such systems have been operating successfully for years in Continental cities . |
| 15 | Although they have been living together for years they have had no idea how the other really felt . |
| 16 | But she and Hilda have been living together for years . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ A year ago father went to Brittany ; he 'd been saving up for years and he went on a nine-day excursion . |
| 18 | I 've been waiting here for ages . |
| 19 | ‘ They 've been waiting there for ages , ’ said Gurder . |
| 20 | As the porter said , the corpses might have been lying there for days , even weeks . |
| 21 | In many , the enclosure award of Georgian days was only the final clearing-up of remnants of open field that survived after piecemeal enclosure had been going on for generations or even centuries . |
| 22 | Almost equally important was the ending , by a series of agreements in 1745 , 1773 and 1790 , of a struggle for influence which had been going on for generations between the Reichskanzlei ( Imperial Chancery ) under its hereditary head , the Elector of Mainz , and the Hofkanzlei ( the Chancery of the Habsburg hereditary lands ) . |
| 23 | These steps into a wider world were part of a great process of expansion by western Europe that had already been going on for decades . |
| 24 | The relationship between cash crops , particularly those for export , and subsistence crops for local consumption , has occasioned an intense and sometimes bitter debate that has been going on for decades , if not centuries , and goes to the very heart of the global capitalist system and its transnational contradictions . |
| 25 | Yeah , I mean it 's been going on for ages |
| 26 | I thought this phone call had been going on for hours . |
| 27 | The raids had been going on for months , but had become increasingly violent : by mid-May they involved border posts being strafed with bullets or set on fire . |
| 28 | It 's been going on for months |
| 29 | But most sociologists , and now many social anthropologists also , are dealing with complex literate societies in which the accumulation of documents of one sort or another has been going on for centuries . |
| 30 | A charming little intimate orgy has been going on for centuries . |