Example sentences of "been [v-ing] in [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hong Kong has been hanging in suspense for almost a fortnight over if Mr Patten would drop a self-imposed deadline for publication at the end of February so that talks with China could resume . |
| 2 | However , according to Zakrewski the government has ruled that the duty-free import quotas will only be divided up among home-grown or foreign companies that have been assembling in Poland for two years , while other firms will face levies at the old rates . |
| 3 | She was born in Smyrna , a member of a British family who had been trading in Turkey for over 130 years . |
| 4 | Maybe they 'd been meeting in secret for a while . |
| 5 | Their analysis may not go any deeper than that , but it is expressed in a way which impresses Letterman , a sort of passionate commitment to the power of the idea which he has — subversively — been advocating in Hollywood for years . |
| 6 | The Open School has been operating in Johannesburg for more than 20 years . |
| 7 | In fact , a number of political parties and movements have been operating in Lithuania for some time , as in Estonia and Latvia ; the constitutional change merely recognises the existing situation . |
| 8 | My husband has not paid the community charge which has been operating in Scotland for a year . |
| 9 | He says even though his company as been operating in Spain for the past 10 years , it has found it difficult to establish a market there . |
| 10 | We had been living in Canaan for ten years when Abraham started inviting me to his tent . |
| 11 | Originally from Inverness , Mr Cordial and his family have been living in Durham for 40 years . |
| 12 | ‘ No , I am American , from the East Coast , but I have been living in England for some time . ’ |
| 13 | The Cossarts were Huguenots but had been living in Ireland for many years . |
| 14 | so I mean if , if they caught one , they actually took a photo , managed to take a photo out of all those hundreds of people , look how many more were , were there , and it just seems like basically their not sure who fired first , obviously the Irish say it was the British them and the British say they were fired upon first and erm , on , on the strength of it , who , who would you rather believe I mean , somebody that 's been living in Ireland for twenty odd yea twenty years now with all that happening around him being able to be got at by the I R A or a British body who may , may be up on a murder trial , you know , the , at the end of the day its six of one and half a dozen of the other , they 've both got stuffed by a bleeding troop |
| 15 | But that belonged to a white person who was , who could speak Punjabi very well , I think he wa he has been living in India for some time . |
| 16 | Sabine , whose mother is German and father is Irish , has been living in Stuttgart for one year . |
| 17 | At Benjamin Rhodes , there are new paintings by Simon Edmondson ( 17 June-7 August ) , who has been living in Madrid for the last twelve months and previously showed with Nicola Jacobs . |
| 18 | The whole community has been living in fear for far too long , menaced equally by both sets of paramilitaries . |
| 19 | Without knowing it I have been living in poverty for the past 14 years . |
| 20 | ‘ I want to feel the embrace of my fans , 100,000 of them , and I 'm waiting to face my rivals with confidence , ’ said the 25-year-old , who has been training in Sestriere for the past few weeks . |
| 21 | Bruce Springsteen has been pulling in crowds for more than a decade . |
| 22 | Armed members of the the London Metropolitan force have been pulling in drivers for the past two weeks in 20 operations . |
| 23 | The nursing home to which her husband has her committed after her eccentricity has become dangerous , and from which she and the other residents are eventually ejected to be cared for by an amorphous ‘ community ’ , might have been lying in wait for her from the day she was born . |
| 24 | The scumniks , who had been lying in wait for prey , used stubguns , grenades — then , at close quarters , a chainsword and knives . |
| 25 | Cricket in Australia had been declining in popularity for some years , not helped by an abject England team two seasons before , and the excitement that West Indies generated by their enterprising play was unbounded , culminating in a vast ticker-tape send-off when the tour was over . |
| 26 | Barn owls have been declining in Britain for years as hedges where their food lives are ripped out . |
| 27 | Mike just a point of information I have been teaching in Harlow for twenty years and I 've never been asked by anybody at the playhouse what play 's who 's like to see in my school . |
| 28 | When I came to the Riding in 1960 I had been teaching in Leeds for five fairly empty years . |
| 29 | Americans and Japanese have been collecting in Antarctica for years . |
| 30 | Every year several of the participants have said to me , ‘ I have been studying in Britain for a year , but this is the first time I have been inside a British home ’ . |