Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [been] [v-ing] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although she has been teaching now for some eight years , on and off , although she enjoys it , feels she is good at it , and would like to go on doing it for the rest of her life if possible , she always feels a twinge of anxiety at the beginning of a new term . |
| 2 | Hills said : ‘ She has been crying out for a mile , and the way the race was run she has been lucky enough not to have had too hard a race . ’ |
| 3 | Dr Peggy Heeks reports on research she has been carrying out for the British Library |
| 4 | Apparently not , for he has been thinking hard for months and his decision is now solid . |
| 5 | I WOULD like to say how much I have enjoyed listening to former Labour leader Neil Kinnock , right , while he has been standing in for Jimmy Young on Radio 2 . |
| 6 | Human Touch is the album he has been working on for several years and Lucky Town a set of songs he quickly wrote and recorded at home recently , and though the tone of the two records does n't differ that much , the second set of songs are far better . |
| 7 | ‘ He has been crying out for support for ages , and I am sure that this new opportunity is just what he is looking for . ’ |
| 8 | Ideally , the EC Commission would step in with a way to prevent the disruption of trade ; but it has been trying unsuccessfully for many months to steer a directive on packaging waste through the council of ministers . |
| 9 | It has been going on for too long . |
| 10 | ‘ My father-in-law was well aware of all this ; it has been going on for some years but he would not do what was necessary to right the situation , that is cut out the loss makers and , perhaps , substitute other lines — stationery , office equipment , videos or any other line compatible with the book trade . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
| 12 | There 's a racket goin' on , Aggie ; but you know as well as me it 's been goin' on for years . |
| 13 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
| 14 | It 's dragging on , it 's been dragging on for a year , but I 'm getting there slowly and I feel a lot more confident than last time . |
| 15 | But it 's been going on for two years . ’ |
| 16 | It 's been going on for long enough and I think something should be done about it , ’ he added . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 18 | Yeah , I mean it 's been going on for ages |
| 19 | I gather it 's been going on for years . ’ |
| 20 | We 'll debate and these instructions , but there 's always this shortfall , and it 's been going on for far too long , and we still have an increasing number of responsibilities , and I just find it extremely distressing to have to sit here time and time again , to go through doing things that we really know we should n't be . |
| 21 | It 's been going on for about seventeen months now and the in chief man at Hill House was rather interested to hear that we 'd not actually had it resolved yet , and asked for the reference numbers and . |
| 22 | it 's been going on for hundreds of years and I do n't see why it should stop . |
| 23 | It 's been going on for months |
| 24 | And then I got into this whole thing about what I call the invisible descender theory , which is a joke in my studio but it 's been going on for , you know , nearly twenty years so it 's become a law . |
| 25 | it 's been going on for |
| 26 | It 's been lying up for about a year and a half |
| 27 | erm , it 's actually sitting there on the Meridian er Business Park , it 's been sitting there for three years er overgrown with er grass and what have you and it 's there . |
| 28 | It 's been sitting there for about three months . |
| 29 | He 's been looking elsewhere for years . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I 've visited Australia 's one and only organic wine producer at Mudgee where he 's been growing organically for 30 years . |