Example sentences of "[noun] have [be] [v-ing] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The needless slaughter has been going on for more than a century . |
| 2 | Robert Taylor has been listening out for the sounds of an economic recovery |
| 3 | Haunting has been going on for years and years and years . |
| 4 | OSF 's singular appearance changes the rules the industry has been playing by for the past few years , narrowing the gap between the two camps , and allowing more room for the players to manoeuvre . |
| 5 | Her admirer had already been bound over to keep the peace after being arrested on her doorstep , and his unwelcome attentions had been going on for over six years . |
| 6 | The milkmen have been watching out for customers who lay their part in the community , are good neighbour , keep a watchful eye on elderly residents , or putting nuts out for the birds . |
| 7 | There will also be some kind of performance boost for DB2 — either more microcode or conceivably the dedicated DB2 processor that IBM has been speculating about for 10 years now . |
| 8 | Although the idea of COSE has been kicking around for more than a year now , it was the possibility of missing the opportunity to be a part of a very public announcement on the opening day of the UniForum show that finally drove some of the parties to the table — and final agreement was reached barely 48 hours before Wednesday 17 , opening day of the San Francisco event . |
| 9 | Although the idea of COSE has been kicking around for more than a year now , it was the possibility of missing the opportunity to be a part of a very public announcement on the opening day of the UniForum show that finally drove some of the parties to the table . |
| 10 | The experiments , however , involved drawing fibres and blowing bubbles of molten glass and one day , after the work had been going on for some months , Lockspeiser went home leaving the gas torch used for melting the glass still burning . |
| 11 | Their success revealed the misunderstanding had been going on for six years . |
| 12 | By 1988 West Indies were going through what England had been going through for as long as anyone could remember : a period of transition . |
| 13 | Toleration as wide-ranging as this would not have been acceptable in England , where hostility to Roman Catholicism had been building up for seventy years since Mary Tudor 's attempt to wipe out Protestantism . |
| 14 | ‘ They realised just what the people in Northern Ireland have been going through for 25 years . |
| 15 | To most people the term Gatt means very little but the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade which 108 countries have been wrestling over for the past six years is vital to fair trading throughout the world . |
| 16 | A sort of messy , mucky drama has been going on for years , about unselectivity and conglomeration : ‘ Let them have the experience , all of them , every one of them , every minute of every time ! ’ ( p. 8 ) . |
| 17 | Well you say that International Women 's Day has been going on for some time , but here in Britain what 's known as the Women 's Movement has been in operation now for about , what , twenty one/twenty two years , something like that . |
| 18 | The process has been going on for some time . |
| 19 | By this time , Lou and Charlie had moved too — the business had been running down for a long period and there was no point in staying in a flat over a shop that did n't exist any more . |
| 20 | Looking back I find it hard to believe that I did n't keep abreast of all the war news ; but the war had been going on for so long that I , like almost every girl of my generation , had lost interest in it . |
| 21 | It contains the first detailed plans for the Himalayas , which all the big names in the business have been working on for years . |
| 22 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 23 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 24 | When questioned they admitted that this state of affairs had been going on for some time . |
| 25 | These claims were never universally accepted ; the destruction of the unity of Christendom by the Reformation helped to undermine the authority of the Pope to allocate territory , but it was Catholic France that first challenged Spain 's position in the West Indies and that conflict had been going on for some years when in 1559 , at the end of one round of European wars , France and Spain included in the peace treaty a clause which stated that fighting in regions west of the Azores or south of the Tropic of Cancer was not to be taken as a reason for resuming hostilities in Europe . |
| 26 | The search for Louise Butler had been going on for over two days . |
| 27 | ‘ These stories have been going round for a long time , and they grow with the telling . ’ |
| 28 | The Cavaliers and Roundheads have been stocking up for another season , re-enacting the English Civil War . |
| 29 | During recent years , demand has been building up for greatly increased facilities for full-time substitute care . |
| 30 | The argument had been going on for some time . |