Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [to-vb] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've been waiting to move for a long time , and we need the money to build the new house . ’ |
| 2 | Now some of the money raised from its sale has been used to pay for a new art Gallery . |
| 3 | He has only expressed what a lot of other people have been starting to fear for a long time , that unless the commercial manipulators in tennis are careful , they could cook the golden goose . |
| 4 | Staff believe the birds may have been stolen to order for a private collector |
| 5 | Over the last year ACET 's centres in Dundee , Edinburgh and Glasgow have been asked to care for a growing number needing practical help to stay at home . |
| 6 | From the ‘ mini ’ , weighing as little as an amoeba or only one hundred-millionth of a kilogram ( unc kg ) to the ‘ supermassive ’ with a mass one thousand million times that of the Sun , they have been invoked to account for a wide range of cosmic phenomena . |