Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [verb] [pron] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The BBC 's film review programme is 21 years old today — and Barry , 59 , has been presenting it for the last 20 . |
| 2 | Unix International has been arming itself for the war against Microsoft NT . |
| 3 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 4 | She guessed Ursula 's diamond-encrusted eternity ring had inflicted the damage and recalled being shown it for the first time nearly ten years ago . |
| 5 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
| 6 | Short had been saving him for the Ascot race . |
| 7 | She explained that Lazaris came through to her via a medium who went into a trance , and had been helping her for the previous eight years . |
| 8 | ‘ I hoped that perhaps you had been doing something for the welfare of these poor peoples , ’ persisted Daisy . |
| 9 | That was it until handover on Monday , which she hoped would be enough time to shake off the cold that had been dogging her for the last couple of days . |
| 10 | Liz Ablewhite was offered , and graciously accepted , the Alethea Ward Scholarship in Natural Sciences ( an annual college award specifically designated by Dr Ward , 1853–1935 , for female students of medicine from the County of Yorkshire , her own home county ) , the goal towards which her mother had been directing her for the past ten years . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been chewing them for the past twenty minutes ! ’ |
| 12 | He said , ‘ No , I have statements , I have witnesses and we 've been surveying you for the last four months . ’ |
| 13 | If , however , he believes in the right to a free and independent trade union , let him grant that right to the employees at the Government communications headquarters , who have been denied it for the past eight years . |
| 14 | He 's been hiding me for the last couple of days . ’ |