Example sentences of "been [vb pp] for month " in BNC.
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| 1 | Capriati has been courted for months by IMG , whose promotion , coupled with success on court , will bring their teenage client millions of dollars . |
| 2 | That was kept in a cabinet — but ‘ regrettably , ’ said Mr Boal , the lock on it had been broken for months . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll try , but I do n't think I 'll have much luck — the best models will have been booked for months . ’ |
| 4 | One of the mothers has been told her husband is missing , others have n't been seen for months . |
| 5 | She put her head into the next room , an untidy and empty bathroom which looked as though the washbasin had not been cleaned for months . |
| 6 | Moulvi Ali Zoha , a Rohingya Muslim who arrived in Bangladesh on Monday , told United News , a Bangladeshi news agency , that the soldiers were angered when the Muslims broke open the doors of the mosque , which had been locked for months since the Burmese authorities clamped down on the Rohingyas . |
| 7 | The existence of the tape has been known for months and a copy of it was made available to a newspaper many weeks ago . |
| 8 | His toe-nails looked as if a knife would blunt on them and could not have been cut for months , possibly years . |
| 9 | As for the hair which used to be trimmed by a top London stylist and had swung in a smooth shoulder-skimming bob , it had not been cut for months and was now bundled unceremoniously on to the top of her head . |
| 10 | The city had been besieged for months but at last a breach had been forced in one of the walls . |
| 11 | He stated that in New York , regarding practical experience , the only bodies that trainee embalmers could obtain were unclaimed ones which had been refrigerated for months , and not just a few hours old , as is the popular myth in this country . |
| 12 | Sources say Sun Microsystems Inc has been bedevilled for months by a rash of pilfering and outright thieving that 's beginning to cost it some serious money . |
| 13 | The army itself seems unsure of this proposition , perhaps because it is waiting to see who is most likely to meet its wage bill : many soldiers have not been paid for months . |