Example sentences of "[been] [verb] in [noun] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her favourite method is to seduce the fellow at a ball , then lead him to the garden between dances — the gardener will later find the body which appears , strangely , to have been immersed in lake-water for many weeks . |
| 2 | In fact , a number of political parties and movements have been operating in Lithuania for some time , as in Estonia and Latvia ; the constitutional change merely recognises the existing situation . |
| 3 | ‘ No , I am American , from the East Coast , but I have been living in England for some time . ’ |
| 4 | The Cossarts were Huguenots but had been living in Ireland for many years . |
| 5 | But that belonged to a white person who was , who could speak Punjabi very well , I think he wa he has been living in India for some time . |
| 6 | And although they have not been seen in Ireland for many years , sometimes they are heard . |
| 7 | Bruce Springsteen has been pulling in crowds for more than a decade . |
| 8 | Cricket in Australia had been declining in popularity for some years , not helped by an abject England team two seasons before , and the excitement that West Indies generated by their enterprising play was unbounded , culminating in a vast ticker-tape send-off when the tour was over . |
| 9 | Although this form of contempt is an easy target for criticism , it has not been used in England for many years . |
| 10 | The plant oil closely resembles sperm-whale oil , which has been used in cosmetics for many years . |
| 11 | Circumcision as a rite had been performed in Israel for many centuries , but it was only with the exile that it assumed the character of a covenantal sign between God and his chosen people . |
| 12 | Some forty-five years after my visit to Preston I was talking to a business acquaintance who , although having been based in Southampton for many years , had never lost his Lancashire accent . |
| 13 | Although curling , as a competitive game , had been played in Ayrshire for many centuries , its popularity increased in the 18th and 19th centuries , with town competing against town , village against village , and parish against parish . |
| 14 | Fortunately the alarm has been sounded in time for many of the province 's historic buildings . |
| 15 | Well , by all means , let's do that , and has been represented in committee for some time , we have responsibility for licenses for some time , and if there is n't a dialogue now , then there 'll be a good reason why there is n't , and I , I take what you say , Liz . |
| 16 | The two young people had been sitting in silence for most of the time Nahum had been upstairs , Seb gazing morosely into the fire and Carrie reading at the kitchen table . |
| 17 | Girls had obviously been standing in line for this man from the first day he 'd put on long trousers — or even earlier , she thought grimly . |
| 18 | The same applies to pedigree dogs which have been kept in kennels for most of their lives . |
| 19 | This brother had been working in Derby for some considerable time . |
| 20 | After an aircraft type has been established in service for some years , a searching ‘ mid-life ’ review should be carried out by the manufacturer to the satisfaction of the certification authority when all aspects of the aircraft 's structural performance should be studied in the light of fleet service experience and current design knowledge . |
| 21 | In the Hussainara case , it was revealed that a number of destitute women had been held in prison for several years awaiting the trials of men accused of raping them . |