Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [be] [v-ing] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Old Stopfordians ' Association had been trying for many years to raise sufficient money to build the Pavilion , and indeed had sold the Harrison Towns field some three years previously for this very reason . |
| 2 | His next move was to Madrid , an upheaval that he and his girlfriend had been planning for some time , and there his photographic education continued apace , despite one or two minor problems . |
| 3 | This was interesting ; some tritium was occurring naturally in the heavy water and when they measured the tritium levels after the experiment had been running for some hours they found that the tritium level had dropped . |
| 4 | The figures were much the same after the experiment had been running for three months , but 83% thought the experiment should continue . |
| 5 | Yet at the time the report was released , the actual company that was used as the basis for the research had been trading for five months and is coping well with a difficult launch period and providing to be highly successful in meeting its targets . |
| 6 | The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS . |
| 7 | Dr Horn 's assessment is that by the 1790s the southern farm labourer 's standard of living had been falling for thirty years , and that an increase of around 85 per cent in money wages over the war years kept it just about level up to 1815 . |
| 8 | In fact , he was so happy with the idea that had come to him from the writer , Peter Shaffer , he began the serious rethink of his career which friends like Lance Percival had been thinking for some time was overdue . |
| 9 | If it was a turning point in terms of ‘ proving ’ the relationship , it also marked the change in image Kylie had been wanting for such a long time . |
| 10 | Both countries had been speaking for some time of their desire to improve relations , without making much progress . |
| 11 | This was the moment Lynch had been building for all his life . |
| 12 | This was reportedly a concession which US oil companies had been seeking for some time . |
| 13 | Our fellow-traveller had been mumbling for some time that he would ‘ hae tae get oot ! ’ . |
| 14 | Coun. Grant said he and Colburn parish council had been pressing for improved pedestrian safety at this point . |
| 15 | Thirty nine infants ( 18% ) in group A and 44 ( 24% ) in group B had been vomiting for three weeks or more before admission . |
| 16 | Throughout 1838 , Darwin had been allowing for Lyellian competitive defeats to extinguish some species before their predetermined ageing overcame them . |
| 17 | Guests had been arriving for some time , for they had heard cars coming and going , but she had n't met any yet . |
| 18 | If a seller had been ringing for fifteen or twenty minutes before the phone was even answered , he would naturally resent this ultimate insult . |
| 19 | When she was most irritated by Caro 's holier-than-thou , most nearly offended by how stupid/insensitive Caro must think her , with her ‘ what a world you live in ’ , and was thinking ‘ How young , how predictable , how limited you are , ’ came the twist in the conversation , the unexpected note , that looking back along the line of the conversation , was the note Caro had been heading for all the time . |
| 20 | In his own way , Ted had been building for this moment too . |
| 21 | The US and North Korean governments had been communicating for several years at a low level through the US embassy in Beijing . |
| 22 | The group had been meeting for two years , and it was mainly a consciousness-raising group , although , with only about twenty groups in London as a whole , some of them , the ‘ housewives ’ , the women who worked part-time were also able to help run the voluntary rota in the central London office , the Women 's Liberation Workshop . |
| 23 | Manning Jackson had been fretting for several minutes . |
| 24 | Donald and Elinor had been talking for thirty minutes . |
| 25 | The big fish had been making for deep water all afternoon and Trent had n't seen a bird for the past hour . |
| 26 | These solutions , which involved old technology , simply applied to the ocean freighter what railroads and truckers had been using for 30 years . |
| 27 | By the time he and Norman strode out to try to win the 1986 British Open , Bender had been caddying for eighteen years , having picked up his first serious bag when he was 18 years old . |
| 28 | And then , after he and Owen had been talking for some while , he crooked his finger and called over the boy who had seen |
| 29 | I am convinced that stuff had been accumulating for many years in this cellar and that Ernest Griffiths had no idea what was in there . |
| 30 | For a long time the industrious Bavarians had been preparing for such an attack . |