Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [be] [v-ing] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Old Stopfordians ' Association had been trying for many years to raise sufficient money to build the Pavilion , and indeed had sold the Harrison Towns field some three years previously for this very reason . |
| 2 | His next move was to Madrid , an upheaval that he and his girlfriend had been planning for some time , and there his photographic education continued apace , despite one or two minor problems . |
| 3 | This was interesting ; some tritium was occurring naturally in the heavy water and when they measured the tritium levels after the experiment had been running for some hours they found that the tritium level had dropped . |
| 4 | The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS . |
| 5 | Our fellow-traveller had been mumbling for some time that he would ‘ hae tae get oot ! ’ . |
| 6 | I am convinced that stuff had been accumulating for many years in this cellar and that Ernest Griffiths had no idea what was in there . |
| 7 | The phone had been ringing for some time . |
| 8 | In practice Anglo-American co-operation had been increasing for some years , but this was now expanded . |
| 9 | Abingdon 's trade had been waning for some time , with its fulling mills lying in ruins and unemployment rife by 1538 . |
| 10 | This was 2,000,000 above the previous figures but within the wide range the organization had been estimating for some time . |
| 11 | Duncan , whose health had been failing for several years , died in West Park , Elgin , 23 May 1863 . |
| 12 | The power of Chaos had been growing for some years . |
| 13 | It was announced on April 18 that the Federal Collective Presidency had agreed to lift the " special measures " in the autonomous province of Kosovo , a part of the Serbian republic , where disturbances involving the ethnic Albanian majority had been continuing for more than a year . |
| 14 | The London General Omnibus Company had been experimenting for some years and , in 1910 introduced to the streets of London , their ‘ B ’ type , petrol engined , double-decker , opened top buses . |
| 15 | On the contrary , the country had been smouldering for some time . |
| 16 | A report to the meeting said services to the region had been deteriorating for several years , with fewer trains running at less flexible times . |
| 17 | A report to the meeting said services to the region had been deteriorating for several years , with fewer trains at less flexible times . |