Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] for [art] past " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , then is the state of affairs which Rigoberta Menchu has been trying for the past 11 years to bring to the world 's attention — an almost impossible task , given the fact that for most of that time the international press found Nicaragua and El Salvador much more diverting . |
| 2 | The charity has been running for the past ten years and also has a branch in Middlesbrough which specialises in providing relief for sufferers of cerebral palsy in Poland . |
| 3 | He will himself present new data on the cohort of doctors he has been studying for the past 40 years , while his colleagues will review current knowledge on some of the many other topics that he has studied — including the effects on health of oral contraceptives , the parts played by radiation and by asbestos in various cancers , and patterns and trends in mortality . |
| 4 | In a conventional world , the Chancellor would simply roll his forecasts forward as he has been doing for the past two years now . |
| 5 | It ran beside a broad , shaded boulevard of feathery pepper trees , and the sudden sight of European-style buildings made him reflect that the jungles , fields and villages through which they 'd been moving for the past few hours had remained unchanging throughout many centuries . |
| 6 | Nothing of her true nature , not even — and here Pavel had been holding his breath at the back of the Border Control 's interrogation room — where she 'd been living for the past two years . |
| 7 | Just as hapless as the plundering Norse overlord he 'd been playing for the past few weeks ! |
| 8 | But that was what he 'd been doing for the past several minutes . |
| 9 | Their clothes were an abrasive barrier between them , and her hands were as urgent as his as she peeled off the same black dress she seemed to have been wearing for the past century . |
| 10 | The thieves took £80 that 73-year-old Peggy Metcalfe had been saving for the past three months . |
| 11 | I did not tell him that his imitation of the French was far more like what I had been seeing for the past year . |
| 12 | The large dining room which had been airing for the past week had passed its final inspection although Mrs Lundy had insisted that the maids cleaned the windows and French doors one more time . |
| 13 | That was just what I had been doing for the past four months innocent of impending restrictions . |
| 14 | Luckily the washing machine coped as adequately with Ruth 's clothes as it had been doing for the past six years . |
| 15 | And as Morse opened his passenger door , he stood for a while looking up at the Pole Star , and asking himself the question he had been asking for the past two hours : was there any way in which Downes could still have been the murderer after all ? |
| 16 | At the end of this campaign it looked at last as if the time of peace had come , when the Council for which Anselm had been pressing for the past four years could be held with royal support . |
| 17 | Other European countries said that the new British Government would be positive and co-operative and would put forward proposals for bringing about the completion of the European Community , for which they had been working for the past 40 years . |
| 18 | The second whinnied and moved back a step to graze the spot it had been coveting for the past hour . |
| 19 | ‘ As a matter of fact I 've been living for the past two years with a wonderful man . |
| 20 | It was found in a garden where they 've been digging for the past six weeks . |
| 21 | ‘ I want to know what you 've been doing for the past four days . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ What you 've been doing for the past four months ! |
| 23 | Rory , have you heard a single word I 've been saying for the past five mintues ? ’ |
| 24 | As far as Kuwait is concerned we 'd like to see our country free again and this gives us the type of hope we have been wanting for the past six months , and I am sure for the people inside Kuwait — because I was there for about three weeks prior to the after the invasion I was there and I had to escape that country . |
| 25 | In times of exchange rate volatility , such as we have been experiencing for the past few years , most overseas buyers will want to be invoiced in their own currency and avoid any exchange risk . |
| 26 | It endorsed British industry 's achievements under the policies that we have been pursuing for the past 12 years , urged us to continue and build upon them in future and condemned utterly the sort of policies still advocated by the Labour party , which is stuck in a mind-set of the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 27 | Nitrate concentrations in rainwater have been increasing for the past seven years . |
| 28 | Political battle-lines have been hardening for the past three weeks . |
| 29 | ‘ Listen , Piper , first , you have been sleeping for the past hour , and second , I think the Germans are counter attacking . |
| 30 | One way to give ourselves new heart is to go where books and readers meet , and this is what I have been doing for the past year , working in secondary schools on research funded by the British Library . |