Example sentences of "[pron] he [vb -s] been [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was his first medal in the competition , which he has been entering for five years — his previous best placing was ninth in 1990 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | An iconoclast , Engel may find the job sedate after the hurly-burly of the general election , which he has been covering for his newspaper . |
| 4 | By the exhausted mechanical sound of it he has been sobbing for a long time . |
| 5 | Chairman , I 've listened with erm interest to Professor erm weasel words explaining that he did n't mean what he 's been saying for the past three years and trying to explain away what he 's effectively and he might as well admit it a complete volte face worse than that his agreement to an arrangement which he knows is second best . |