Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [v-ing] [adv] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just love the way that kid must 've been standing out there for what , fifteen minutes ? |
| 2 | The Po delta has been moving forward irresistibly for aeon upon aeon since late Tertiary times and will presumably , in the course of time , fill the Adriatic with its sediments from the decaying Alps . |
| 3 | Cotte ( pp. 71 – 2 ) distinguishes two main senses of let , the first of which is described as " the non-intervention of an agent in an action which has been initiated independently of him/her and has been going on already for a certain time " , and can be illustrated by : ( 214 ) He would n't even dance with her at Gavin 's party . |
| 4 | Now the District Council have taken a lot of money off this town , over the market stalls now , for a number of years , and I believe if they 're going to do a scheme like this which has been going on now for over eight years , it should be done all in one go . |
| 5 | After all , evolution has been going on now for about four billion years as far as we know and there are n't very many long-lived organisms . |
| 6 | Batty , speaking on Leeds clubcall , said yesterday : ‘ The speculation has been going on now for a couple of years . |
| 7 | This would require a great deal of organisation to ensure compatibility of all the units involved , but ICAO did a similar thing many years ago with ILS air and ground equipment and that has been working successfully now for over thirty-five years . |
| 8 | More important is the fact that nobody can really tell whether Germany has a successful economy because of its voting system ( though , between you and me , this seems as unlikely as a cart pulling a horse ) or whether it seems to have satisfactory constitutional arrangements because its economy has been working so well for so long . |
| 9 | He has only been a reserve for Wales all season , although I believe he has been playing very well for his club . |
| 10 | Now he is churning out line with a 15lb breaking strain and it is proving so popular that he has now got rid of the old banger he had been driving around in for years and bought his first executive saloon . |
| 11 | A spokesman for the county council said : ‘ Before that unfortunate incident it had been working very successfully for several hours . |
| 12 | We had been going out together for four years ; he was more like a brother than a boyfriend . |
| 13 | I hurried back to the house to be met immediately by the first footman saying : ‘ We 've been looking all over for you , sir . |
| 14 | ‘ Luke , darling , ’ she simpered , winding a thin , heavily tanned arm around Luke 's waist , ‘ we 've been looking all over for you , you naughty boy ! ’ |
| 15 | I 've been looking all over for you … ’ |
| 16 | I 've been searching all over for you ! |
| 17 | They 've been fighting out there for bloody years . ’ |
| 18 | Riding a bike is a suitable analogy : if you have been pedalling very hard for a while you can stop pedalling and freewheel for a short distance without losing any speed . |
| 19 | ‘ I thought I 'd ring and congratulate you on managing at last to see what some of us have been going on about for all these years . ’ |
| 20 | Each features a very familiar rhyme accompanied by the kind of lively , funny pictures Colin and Jacqui Hawkins have been doing so well for years . |
| 21 | To date it is a subtle but important change of mood that , with luck , will grow stronger over the winter — allowing spring to bring those green shoots of recovery that the Treasury and the Chancellor have been banging on about for the last two years . |
| 22 | Well , that 's been dragging on now for three or four weeks erm . |
| 23 | it 's been going on now for what ? |
| 24 | ‘ I know she 's been working very hard for you . |