Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [adv] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The tackle from behind has been stopped here for a long time , but they were doing it all night and getting away with it . |
| 2 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 3 | This has been hanging about for a long , long time while I 've been on this and these people and they 're very special people I 've got this sword of hanging over my head . |
| 4 | Artcare only use quality nylon zips , each of which has been designed especially for a particular portfolio ; and only square arch mechanisms are used making presentation much neater . |
| 5 | He knew this was something that had been happening slowly for a long time , something that had to happen or he was lost , but it was such a brittle structure they were building , one word would topple it , shatter it , one word would be enough to jerk them back into that ordinary daylight where nothing could be changed or righted , nothing could unravel . |
| 6 | In patient 10 , who had been operated on for a bleeding ulcer seven years previously , a gastric lymphoma was diagnosed on the basis of biopsy specimens . |
| 7 | All the animals are in their cages , but they do n't seem to have very much space , and some of them have n't been fed properly for a long time . |
| 8 | as if she 'd been waiting outside for a convenient pause in their conversation , the vaporeuse knocked on the door and opened it . |
| 9 | DHA 1 has been waiting patiently for a new DGH for 25 years . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 11 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 12 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
| 13 | ‘ These stories have been going round for a long time , and they grow with the telling . ’ |
| 14 | This , like the argument about human progress , suggests that the universe can have been going only for a finite time . |
| 15 | You might say that this thing had been brewing up for a long time , that the threat was there ; they had n't seen it . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | By this time , Lou and Charlie had moved too — the business had been running down for a long period and there was no point in staying in a flat over a shop that did n't exist any more . |
| 18 | Peter Tomlinson , inexperienced in television terms , had been brought in for a key " anchor " role and I could appreciate the excessive pressure on him . |
| 19 | We use this way in to stop people stealing what gear we have.Andy has been scratching around for a regular roof over his head for a year , ever since he lost his job and his home burned down in a fire . |
| 20 | Controls comprised 21 patients with ileal pouches constructed during the same period who had been followed up for a mean duration of 43 months ( range 15–119 months ) and who had had endoscopies that showed no evidence of active inflammation . |
| 21 | Although this important principle of credit creation has been illustrated above for a single bank system , the same principle will operate in an economy with many banks provided that there is an efficient clearing system . |
| 22 | Parts of it have been taken over for a secondary motor road , but much of it remains remote and quiet , rarely disturbed by a human voice . |
| 23 | Mr Hrawi said no decision had been taken yet for a military showdown . |
| 24 | Mr Hrawi said no decision had been taken yet for a military showdown . |
| 25 | The only exception is the sort of heat fault that makes a machine malfunction after it has been switched on for a given time or when the room warms up . |
| 26 | Koeman should have been sent off for a deliberate foul on Platt ( who actually got 5.9 for the skill in making it look much worse ) . |
| 27 | If the property has been lived in for a long time with old carpets that have never been shampooed they can exude quite pungent odours . |
| 28 | This profound sense of destiny which has influenced her life gives her an intuitive awareness that she has been singled out for a special role . |