Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] has been [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moya , a seemingly relaxed woman in her forties , described her attacks , which she has been having for 20 years , as ‘ an enormous blackness and fear , like being held under water ’ . |
| 2 | It was his first medal in the competition , which he has been entering for five years — his previous best placing was ninth in 1990 . |
| 3 | A survey of the career of Robert Ryman , the American artist noted for the white paintings which he has been making for nearly forty years , is the most significant exhibition of contemporary art to be taking place in London this spring . |
| 4 | An iconoclast , Engel may find the job sedate after the hurly-burly of the general election , which he has been covering for his newspaper . |
| 5 | Doubts have continually dogged the potential deal between the bank — set up in the capital over two years ago with £26 million of institutional backing as a building society acquisition operation — and the Heart of England with which it has been talking for almost two years . |
| 6 | By the exhausted mechanical sound of it he has been sobbing for a long time . |