Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [verb] [pers pn] for [art] " 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 | We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers . |
| 3 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 4 | It was clear that she 'd been taking him for a ride , in that there was no ride in it for him at the end of the process . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ It must have been bothering you for a few days . ’ |
| 7 | Three of the medical staff who attended her independently assured her that had she not been so fit and supple they would have been measuring her for a wheelchair , or worse . |
| 8 | ( ‘ We seem to have been crowning her for a whole year . |
| 9 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
| 10 | As he glanced up at her , his eyes shuttered , she found herself asking another question that had been puzzling her for a while . |
| 11 | The girls had been plotting it for a month in great excitement . |
| 12 | Short had been saving him for the Ascot race . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He had been watching her for a long time before she realised he was awake . |
| 15 | He had been pestering him for a while for stories about the grandparents he had never known . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It 's when you 've been flying them for a few days consecutively that it ( pardon the pun ) dawns on them that they could escape and find out what 's over the next hill . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been chewing them for the past twenty minutes ! ’ |
| 20 | He said , ‘ No , I have statements , I have witnesses and we 've been surveying you for the last four months . ’ |
| 21 | Living is very important to me as I 've been doing it for a fair few years now . |
| 22 | A good A&R Manager can earn sixty or seventy grand , whilst successful A&R Directors can earn upwards of a hundred grand and considerably more if they 've been doing it for a while . ’ |
| 23 | Oh I 've been doing it for a long time have n't I ? |
| 24 | Well I 've been doing it for a |
| 25 | ‘ I have been expecting you for a week , ’ he said . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | That 's what I said Norman , women have been doing it for a lot longer . |
| 28 | He 's been hiding me for the last couple of days . ’ |
| 29 | that is something that 'd happened all of a sudden , of about four throughout the cou , well three at the time throughout the country have suddenly gone like it within about a month or so of each other , and they 've never had any trouble before , but I was talking to Brian and he said that 's a load of cobblers , he says it 's been doing it for a long time and there 's loads of them doing it . |
| 30 | I do n't know , but she 's been doing it for a while . |