Example sentences of "[pron] has [been] [v-ing] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And somebody has been covering up for him — smoothing his footprints out of the mud , rubbing his fingerprints off the door handles . |
| 2 | It 's the latest run in in a dispute which has been rumbling on for some weeks betweenthe Post office and the National Communications union . |
| 3 | The old Moscow publishers Iskusstvo managed to release just one book last year , and having exhausted its resources , it was forced to suspend publication of the journal Iskusstvo , which has been coming out for a number of decades . |
| 4 | In Guatemala too , the 1980s marked a high point of repression in a political conflict which has been going on for the best part of thirty years . |
| 5 | It is common for patients to appear for their first out-patient appointment with one or other of these problems , which has been going on for the previous few weeks . |
| 6 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 7 | I understand that revision of the regulations , which has been going on for sometime , is reaching its final phase . |
| 8 | As my hon. and learned Friend has accepted the closure of Bir Zeit is part of the systematic infringement of the Geneva convention by Israel which has been going on for years , should not a more robust approach therefore be taken , both by our Government and by the European Community , and should not economic measures at some stage be taken in relation to Israel to prevent the continuation of such unacceptable violations of human rights and of the Geneva convention ? |
| 9 | ‘ This is a girl who has been crying out for help , ’ one aide said . |
| 10 | DARLINGTON discovery Andrew Pyrah , who has been running seriously for only 18 months , won the Man of the Match award in the Woolworth Young Athletes match at Middlesbrough yesterday . |
| 11 | Although she has been teaching now for some eight years , on and off , although she enjoys it , feels she is good at it , and would like to go on doing it for the rest of her life if possible , she always feels a twinge of anxiety at the beginning of a new term . |
| 12 | Hills said : ‘ She has been crying out for a mile , and the way the race was run she has been lucky enough not to have had too hard a race . ’ |
| 13 | Dr Peggy Heeks reports on research she has been carrying out for the British Library |
| 14 | Apparently not , for he has been thinking hard for months and his decision is now solid . |
| 15 | I WOULD like to say how much I have enjoyed listening to former Labour leader Neil Kinnock , right , while he has been standing in for Jimmy Young on Radio 2 . |
| 16 | Human Touch is the album he has been working on for several years and Lucky Town a set of songs he quickly wrote and recorded at home recently , and though the tone of the two records does n't differ that much , the second set of songs are far better . |
| 17 | ‘ He has been crying out for support for ages , and I am sure that this new opportunity is just what he is looking for . ’ |
| 18 | Ideally , the EC Commission would step in with a way to prevent the disruption of trade ; but it has been trying unsuccessfully for many months to steer a directive on packaging waste through the council of ministers . |
| 19 | It has been going on for too long . |
| 20 | ‘ My father-in-law was well aware of all this ; it has been going on for some years but he would not do what was necessary to right the situation , that is cut out the loss makers and , perhaps , substitute other lines — stationery , office equipment , videos or any other line compatible with the book trade . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
| 22 | Proteon 's announcement that it is splitting its business into two divisions ( one for adaptor boards and wiring centres ; the other for internetworking and intelligent hub systems ) is in line with what has been happening internally for some time , says Swan . |