Example sentences of "'s [been] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's just joined the Squadron but he 's been flying for two years . ’ |
| 2 | She says that she 's been flying for three years . |
| 3 | The school 's been lobbying for new buildings for several years . |
| 4 | It 's been devastating for those who 've cared for Sefton . |
| 5 | do you want a cup of tea that 's been stewing for three days ? |
| 6 | Well considering nothing 's been done for fifty year I suppose really |
| 7 | ‘ It seems that the establishment thinking is that if it 's been done for 175 years , it must be all right . |
| 8 | It caps a deal that 's been brewing for some time for the pair to co-develop products this year that let Windows applications run on Unix desktops . |
| 9 | It caps a deal that 's been brewing for some time for the pair to co-develop products this year that enable Windows applications to run under Unix on desktop systems . |
| 10 | It 's been engaged for ten minutes at least . |
| 11 | ‘ What 's been accepted for 2,000 years should not be changed now . ’ |
| 12 | A Glasgow man 's been jailed for four and a half years for blackmailing gay businessmen . |
| 13 | It 's been known for some time that dioxins are created when chlorine is used to make paper white , but in many situations it 's been difficult to find substitutes . |
| 14 | The Lockerbie enquiry 's been suspended for two days after a solicitor representing families of American victims , died in a car crash . |
| 15 | ‘ Perhaps it 's been buried for ten years , ’ she whispered to herself . |
| 16 | I , I look at these science things where , you know , they 're sending these things , America 's sending them , it 's been going for two year thousands of miles an hour , you know , probably a minute er and the as the man came over who went to the moon , the top man , to lecture and he was asked innumerable questions and one was do you think there 's anything up there ? |
| 17 | She 's been going for that ra is it radium ? |
| 18 | He 's been going for three hours . |
| 19 | Everyone remembers Star Trek , it 's been going for twenty five years |
| 20 | The centre 's been running for four years and is still looked after by Andy Middleton who set it up . |
| 21 | The reason that brought that four hundred thousand pounds stems from the Tory revolt and the pressure by the group , the Tories , the rebellious ones , on the Government through our Chief Executive to fight our case , through a completely Sir Humphrey scenario , to get some more money and a better deal for west Oxfordshire , and that 's been achieve for some measure . |
| 22 | Now he 's been banned for another 12 months at Banbury , Oxfordshire . |
| 23 | And also , back in their team is erm Michael Lee who 's been banned for some years now , and he 's raring to go and erm I think they 're all coming down to prove a few points . |
| 24 | Police are growing increasingly worried about a mentally handicapped man who 's been missing for three days . |
| 25 | Police in Lothian are increasingly concerned about the safety of a fifteen year old girl who 's been missing for ten days . |
| 26 | No such luck I 'm afraid for a car swindler who 's been gaoled for two years after he was caught boarding the same holiday flight as his victim . |
| 27 | It 's been happening for hundreds of years . |
| 28 | No in fact he 's not , he 's been arrested for some other crime . |
| 29 | Erm if he 's another easy one is if he 's been travelling for one hour how far has he gone ? |
| 30 | Now we 've got three points there it 's probably they they give you four here so we 'll do another one erm , when he 's been travelling for five hours how far 's he gone ? |