Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [adv] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
| 2 | She went humming upstairs to clean the bathroom , while Winnie turned over in her mind a plan which had been lurking there for some time . |
| 3 | The store had not been trading profitably for some time indicating there simply is not enough money circulating in the area to sustain it . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Obviously Stirling had been lobbying hard for new blood . |
| 6 | The Revenue treat the separation as likely to be permanent if the parties have been living apart for one year ( Pinson on Revenue Law , 17th edn , para 38 – 04 ) . |
| 7 | As most people in South Africa know , they have been living apart for some while — ostensibly on security grounds . |
| 8 | Bruno 's been training hard for this fight in Leicester . |
| 9 | He recalls the efforts he made to acquire a p-38 : ‘ A Lightning that I had been pondering about for some time was owned by a chap called Merril Wayne , who ran an airline called Wayne Airlines up in Anchorage , Alaska . |
| 10 | Talks have been going on for some time on a range of scientific matters including fusion , nuclear safety and the environment . |
| 11 | The process has been going on for some time . |
| 12 | My head was throbbing and the shoulder was beginning to ache from the kicking , which had probably been going on for some time before I came round . |
| 13 | The argument had been going on for some time . |
| 14 | The argument must have been going on for some time , although Lucien had been hardly aware of it . |
| 15 | One thing Mam said suggested it had been going on for some time … |
| 16 | When questioned they admitted that this state of affairs had been going on for some time . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't really think they have done enough this has been going on for some time . |
| 18 | Well you say that International Women 's Day has been going on for some time , but here in Britain what 's known as the Women 's Movement has been in operation now for about , what , twenty one/twenty two years , something like that . |
| 19 | Colleagues , the Parliament of the European Community and of the United Kingdom have seriously considered the consequences of the spillage of eighty five thousand tons of oil from oil tanker which ran aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands on the fifth of January nineteen ninety three and for a considerable time socialists of the European Parliament have been complaining incessantly for greater safety at sea . |
| 20 | However months later he was able to start talking about his wife and the fact that they had not been getting on for some time and had begun divorce proceedings . |
| 21 | Overhead the clouds had been breaking up for some time . |
| 22 | I 've been coming here for some time and only now am I relaxed there . |
| 23 | Always considered a soft touch for your face , these products have currently been coming in for more scrutiny . |
| 24 | . We still have n't got a name for this er facility , been dragging on for some time . |
| 25 | The Cavaliers and Roundheads have been stocking up for another season , re-enacting the English Civil War . |
| 26 | However , the FoE did welcome a number of proposals they had been campaigning on for some time . |
| 27 | They had all been sitting quietly for some time , waiting . |
| 28 | Toby Tobias was quickest away and Desert Orchid could find no more , but the race was far from finished , for as Mark Pitman on Toby Tobias made for the winning post Graham McCourt urged Norton 's Coin to a final effort , and as the two jockeys , whips swishing , pushed their courageous mounts up the hill the cheers from the stands which moments before had been tuning up for another Dessie triumph lapsed into a disbelieving murmur : this was not the right script at all . |