Example sentences of "[pron] have been [v-ing] for some " in BNC.
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| 31 | It would have been more usual to have asked her with careful casualness to wait behind after the meeting but what he had to say was private and he had been trying for some weeks now to cut down the number of times when they were known to be alone together . |
| 32 | Reagan hammered away at themes which he had been developing for some years and which would be wheeled out every time he ran for public office . |
| 33 | He looked as if he had been waiting for some time . |
| 34 | He tried fitfully to proceed with a short prose book on the nature of culture which he had been contemplating for some time , but by the end of 1942 had produced only a first draft of two chapters : this must be the source of the four essays which appeared in the New English Weekly during January and February 1943 under the title , " Notes toward a Definition of Culture " . |
| 35 | In his paper , Beveridge repeated what he had been saying for some time , namely , that there was no general breakdown of the labour-market , instead there was an overstocking of individual trades which was due to ‘ inadequate labour information and local hindrances to labour mobility ’ . |
| 36 | So I should n't think he 's been driving for some time and |