Example sentences of "been [verb] [noun] for " in BNC.

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1 My Mum goes what have you been phoning Billy for ?
2 We have been pursuing proposals for some time .
3 Maura had been seeing Terry for nearly five months , and miraculously had managed to keep him a secret .
4 I had been seeing Jessica for twelve months before she admitted to herself that her lover would never come back .
5 Heseltine 's campaign team , having been canvassing backbenchers for several weeks , had already developed a considerable momentum .
6 Derek says … they 've broken a few boats in testing … they 've been building prototypes for the last six months and have been putting in hours at sea to make sure everything is right
7 I have been producing guidebooks for fifteen years and I have never thought of that .
8 She had been cooking rice for supper .
9 You , you , you 've all hea heard of Marie Curie , famous erm scientist who pioneered a lot of the work on radioactivity in the early part of this century and the last part of the last century she in fact was Polish , lived in , in , in Paris , married a French man called Pierre er hence she 's known as Marie Curie well Pierre Curie was also a scientist and he was er baffled by the affect that , th the fact that there did n't seem to be any biological affects er certainly the doses of radiation that , that they were , they were getting they 'd handled tons and tons of pitchblende , that 's radioactive ore they extracted several grammes of radium from it , they 'd been handling stuff for years they were n't ill , they obviously had n't died and so on .
10 Touche Ross , who have been handling negotiations for the sale of the American style Marvels park , say there are several potential buyers .
11 ‘ But South Africa are a much better team than they 've been given credit for , and they are getting better with every match .
12 Well , he was more interested than he has been given credit for , and he had a wonderful collection of eighteenth-century English books which he gave to Trinity College , Cambridge .
13 It had happened up and down the land , and Steve White said even he 'd been given £10,000 for an earlier move between Luton and Charlton Athletic .
14 A clutch of companies involved in technology from the Soviet space programmes has been given permission for the first time to deal direct with foreigners .
15 JLM Projects Ltd have been given permission for a plan to build four houses on the site of a former Mission Church at Moor Crescent in Ludworth .
16 For instance , the chairman of an Italian company that Morton acquired in the 1970s has been given responsibility for adhesives throughout the region .
17 Vista Chemical , the American subsidiary of the German Company RWE-DEA has been given responsibility for the worldwide marketing of linear alkylbenzene .
18 At Potsdam Mountbatten had been given responsibility for accepting the Japanese surrender south of the 16th parallel .
19 The government 's Technical Commission had been given responsibility for providing the mechanism for an orderly poll for which 130,000,000 lei ( about US$6,500,000 ) was set aside .
20 It was reported on June 17 that he had been given responsibility for local government , while other responsibilities were redistributed between deputy premiers .
21 It was Major Volpi who had been given responsibility for putting up road-blocks and carrying out house-to-house searches .
22 The Commission has also been given responsibility for developing a broad Community recognised vocational training pass , but this will have to be built upon current activity in this area .
23 As indicated in UPDATE 1 , the broad subject areas which have been given priority for development during the 1988–89 session are :
24 A vacuum is then created because new employers have not been given a chance to develop sufficiently for an orderly takeover and employees have not been given opportunities for retraining .
25 Subject headings lists are lists of index terms , normally arranged in alphabetical order , which have been given authority for use in an index , catalogue or database for describing subjects .
26 Our club members had been knitting cushions for charity and at the beginning of question time Georgie asked if she could tell the story of her cushion .
27 Of course the swell has been gathering force for a century or more , since Joseph Thompson first saw ‘ the most peculiar band of men to be found in Africa ‘ .
28 It was a process which had been gathering momentum for some time and has continued since .
29 Meanwhile , a working party report urging positive action on equal opportunities by the Scottish Law Society has been gathering dust for more than a year .
30 I have been using pasters for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased .
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