Example sentences of "[conj] it have been [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , towards the end of January , people noticed that at least one boar was coming right up to the village in its nighttime foraging : there were tracks in the snow and patches of scratched earth where it had been digging for roots . |
| 2 | Although it has been running for 13 years , few sites have so far been cleaned up to the EPA 's satisfaction . |
| 3 | Labour attempted to pre-empt any jobs package by stressing yesterday that it had been pressing for such measures since before Christmas . |
| 4 | Well erm I think so , I mean they had a great side under Bill Beaumont 's leadership and it 's been promising for a couple of years with England , and today they actually came through with the goods erm a bit of an anti-climax last year at erm at Murrayfield . |
| 5 | in time and it 's been going for about five years . |
| 6 | Do you know Dave I read erm we there 's a magazine called Good Housekeeping and it 's been going for it had been going for seventy years , last year it started in nineteen twenty one , women 's magazine , very good one and they had a sort of seventieth birthday issue |
| 7 | For one thing , the people elected Solidarity to govern and it has been governing for barely seven months . |
| 8 | We knew of its existence from a photograph taken in the 1850s , but it has been missing for 150 years . |
| 9 | But it 's been hanging for the l particular local plan to receive more specific impetu done this exercise properly . |
| 10 | The clients expect and understand that quite well now , because it 's been happening for about two or three years . |
| 11 | Now when it 's been travelling for three hours it goes through Manchester . |
| 12 | Okay and when it 's been travelling for five hours it goes through erm what 's another station up there ? let's say Carlisle something like that . |
| 13 | And when it 's been travelling for seven hours it gets into Glasgow . |
| 14 | Theodora replaced the mouthpiece and the telephone shrilled again as though it had been waiting for her to release its ring . |
| 15 | Luckily the washing machine coped as adequately with Ruth 's clothes as it had been doing for the past six years . |