Example sentences of "[verb] been [adj] [noun] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | What a shame just Mickey again out on the right hand side , Dean made a great diagonal run in behind the full back and the ball was just a little bit heavy otherwise there could 've been real danger again for Blackburn . |
| 2 | It has been practising rotation internally for a number of years . |
| 3 | There was something about old Eddy 's appearance which had been worrying Dyson subconsciously for some minutes , and he suddenly realized what it was . |
| 4 | She had been smoking dope now for the last year , scoring whenever she had saved up enough money from her weekend job at McDonald 's . |
| 5 | The typical known user had been smoking heroin daily for about one to three years , having started the habit around the age of 16–18 , and was using 0.25–0.5 gram of heroin per day ( costing between 20 and 35 ) at the time of agency contact . |
| 6 | And the main news again , there 've been renewed calls tonight for the police to be armed after a community policeman was murdered . |
| 7 | We have seen that localism and the drift to increasingly authoritarian government have been major problems even for Africa 's more successful leaders , and have been disastrous in other cases such as Uganda and Nigeria . |
| 8 | She and co-star Charlie Schlatter have been toiling flat out for six months . |
| 9 | He 's been head teacher here for seven years and has seen it get some of the best exam results in the country . |