Example sentences of "[pron] have been [v-ing] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But it is such a useful box , ’ she said , ‘ I have been looking about for one like it . |
| 2 | ‘ I have been coming here for nine years and have a feel for the heart of the city and this song says it all . ’ |
| 3 | Celia and I have been battling away for months now and we do n't seem to be getting anywhere . |
| 4 | I have been arguing here for what might be termed appropriate research , analogous to the notion of appropriate technology . |
| 5 | Eyes turned to boarded up windows and rubbish strewn in gardens and the depressing picture moved the prince to say : ‘ This is why I have been going on for so long about architecture in the environment . ’ |
| 6 | My boyfriend and I have been going out for six weeks and everything is wonderful but it takes me honestly two hours to reach orgasm . |
| 7 | I have been waiting only for that so that I might go . ’ |
| 8 | The present conjuncture is uniquely dreadful because , as I have been predicting emphatically for at least two years , we now have , all at the same time , unemployment rising towards three million , falling output and investment , and a balance of payments that is still in substantial deficit . |
| 9 | ‘ Businesses which have been clinging on for months are now going over the edge . ’ |
| 10 | Efforts to procure his extradition , which have been going on for five years , and which seemed for a time to have been successful , have now been thwarted , at least for the moment . |
| 11 | It is reported on the front page of The Times today that the common agricultural policy — that squalid policy which is costing British families an average of £18.50 a week each — will destroy the world free trade talks , which have been going on for four or five years , and involve just about every country in the world . |
| 12 | His remarks will disappoint many right-wing Tories who have been pushing hard for the Government to give a firm commitment to privatisation . |
| 13 | His remarks will disappoint many right-wing Tories who have been pushing hard for the Government to give a firm commitment to privatisation . |
| 14 | This allowance is very limited — it is available only for married women whose child/children are over four years of age and who have been signing on for the previous six months . |
| 15 | The first and third shows , ( dis ) parities and countervail , profile with work of two groups of women who have been working collectively for a number of years . |
| 16 | The reader 's time and money would be better spent reading that classic novel you have been putting off for years . |
| 17 | I have started divorce proceedings , as we have been living apart for the last two months , but now he is pleading with me to take him back . |
| 18 | I have started divorce proceedings , as we have been living apart for the last two months , but now he is pleading with me to take him back . |
| 19 | So far as a family we have been living here for about 6/7 years . |
| 20 | Although we have been going there for 10 years the excitement of seeing all our friends will never ever die and I hope it is going to stay a good , clean Holiday site for many years . |
| 21 | ‘ I feel that we have been working together for much longer , ’ says Sandra , ‘ because even when we had our own businesses we would ring each other up for advice . |
| 22 | We have been working together for the past three days . |
| 23 | ‘ You mean to say we have been sitting here for an hour with a motorbike and sidecar parked outside ? ’ |
| 24 | We have been arguing here for a view of the state in which governments are managing not only class and social relations but also individuals . |
| 25 | As most people in South Africa know , they have been living apart for some while — ostensibly on security grounds . |
| 26 | They have been living here for seven years but now they are being inundated by refuse . |
| 27 | Although they have been living together for years they have had no idea how the other really felt . |
| 28 | ‘ In some cases smoking is as addictive as heroin and it is difficult for people to give up when they have been inhaling deeply for a number of years , ’ he told a news conference at the Royal Society in London . |
| 29 | Social anthropologists can and do study members of their own society and they have been doing so for a long time , though mostly they do not do it very well . |
| 30 | They have been working successfully for years and apparently preclude the necessity of fertilisers . |