Example sentences of "[noun] had been [v-ing] for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Both countries had been speaking for some time of their desire to improve relations , without making much progress . |
| 6 | This was reportedly a concession which US oil companies had been seeking for some time . |
| 7 | Our fellow-traveller had been mumbling for some time that he would ‘ hae tae get oot ! ’ . |
| 8 | Guests had been arriving for some time , for they had heard cars coming and going , but she had n't met any yet . |
| 9 | And then , after he and Owen had been talking for some while , he crooked his finger and called over the boy who had seen |
| 10 | The phone had been ringing for some time . |
| 11 | In practice Anglo-American co-operation had been increasing for some years , but this was now expanded . |
| 12 | Abingdon 's trade had been waning for some time , with its fulling mills lying in ruins and unemployment rife by 1538 . |
| 13 | Profits had been falling for some years ; investment collapsed suddenly in summer 1974 . |
| 14 | This was 2,000,000 above the previous figures but within the wide range the organization had been estimating for some time . |
| 15 | Carlson had been wondering for some time what was actually going on . |
| 16 | The power of Chaos had been growing for some years . |
| 17 | The London General Omnibus Company had been experimenting for some years and , in 1910 introduced to the streets of London , their ‘ B ’ type , petrol engined , double-decker , opened top buses . |
| 18 | On the contrary , the country had been smouldering for some time . |