Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] been [v-ing] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has been walking for an hour a day for more than a year , but very slowly . |
| 2 | She 's been speaking for the first time on camera following her release from prison , exclusively to Central News . |
| 3 | Since she left school she 's been working for the Fish Co-operative in Stockholm Backs , not far from Riddle 's yard . ’ |
| 4 | She 's been missing for a week , was going to marry a rising Minister , successful career , everything coming up roses . |
| 5 | Although he has been looking for the little creep to beat him up for having steered him wrong , he realises that it is better to be with someone , even someone like Ratso , than to be alone . |
| 6 | ‘ He has been calling for a … ’ he glanced importantly at his notebook ‘ … |
| 7 | The trouble with the right hon. Gentleman is that he has been searching for a way to do nothing about this problem . |
| 8 | He has been waiting for the right offer for some time after turning down an approach from Italian club Pisa several seasons ago . |
| 9 | By the exhausted mechanical sound of it he has been sobbing for a long time . |
| 10 | He will himself present new data on the cohort of doctors he has been studying for the past 40 years , while his colleagues will review current knowledge on some of the many other topics that he has studied — including the effects on health of oral contraceptives , the parts played by radiation and by asbestos in various cancers , and patterns and trends in mortality . |
| 11 | Although he has had his feet under the desk only since January , he has been preparing for the job since last summer by meeting researchers and officials , visiting institutes abroad and drawing up an initial draft of his plans . |
| 12 | In a conventional world , the Chancellor would simply roll his forecasts forward as he has been doing for the past two years now . |
| 13 | From the statement " It has been raining for an hour in Chicago " , for example , we are able to infer , using our knowledge of the real world , that the streets of Chicago are wet . |
| 14 | It has been operating for a year now , with the aim of showing researchers both the benefits of massively parallel computers and how to use them . |
| 15 | Well erm I think so , I mean they had a great side under Bill Beaumont 's leadership and it 's been promising for a couple of years with England , and today they actually came through with the goods erm a bit of an anti-climax last year at erm at Murrayfield . |
| 16 | " It 's been raining for a week . " |
| 17 | Ottawa , Canada-based 4GL software supplier Cognos Inc is about to consummate the moves into Unix and distributed computing it 's been flagging for a year , with the planned Six By Six launch of six products on six Unix platforms in August . |
| 18 | But it 's been hanging for the l particular local plan to receive more specific impetu done this exercise properly . |
| 19 | a standard Anglepoise lamp er which it 's been going for a number of years , you can get it in about six different colours to match different designs of , er put colour into your room , now if somebody was spending a lot of time sitting knitting and has to look at the knitting or has to look at the pattern then er a good strong light which wo n't get in their eyes but goes straight on to what , whatever they 're doing , is by far the best thing for them , er but they say oh I do n't like it , it 's a bit angular is n't it , erm , modern sort of thing , er but because it 's angular it does n't mean to say it 's not gon na fit into the room it 's the right thing for it , er for the person doing that work . |
| 20 | It 's been happening for a few days , but I 've only just realised what it is … |
| 21 | Can I just draw people 's attention to the very last point which was made in case any one sending large sums of cash through the post office , erm , it , it 's been running for a long time |
| 22 | No wonder he 's been looking for an excuse to get rid of you . ’ |
| 23 | It was , after all , a throat infection and he 's been training for the past week . ’ |
| 24 | Now with this one the one we 've just done you do n't really know how far to go I mean I might have been going to ask erm how long has he been travelling if he 's been riding for a thousand hours . |
| 25 | He 's been waiting for the past half-hour . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I bet he 's been dying for an audience , ’ Dalziel said to Pascoe . |
| 27 | ‘ He 's been running for a bookie again , Sarah . |
| 28 | Since his recovery , he 's been running for the Cancer Research Campaign . |
| 29 | Since his recovery , he 's been running for the Cancer Research Campaign . |
| 30 | Chairman , I 've listened with erm interest to Professor erm weasel words explaining that he did n't mean what he 's been saying for the past three years and trying to explain away what he 's effectively and he might as well admit it a complete volte face worse than that his agreement to an arrangement which he knows is second best . |