Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [v-ing] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was in Italy , it was early morning , and I 'd been lying awake for about three hours . |
| 2 | I guess I 've been getting upset for too long when it was n't even necessary . |
| 3 | She 'd been sitting motionless for over an hour , conducting an inner battle over the need to alert the board of Chester 's about Guy 's perfidy , with the stubborn hope that somehow she might be wrong keeping her glued to the spot , torn with indecision … |
| 4 | Re-rigging the ship for an Antarctic voyage inside of a week , after she had been lying idle for over a year , was quite impossible . |
| 5 | We 'd been playing safe for our own survival , and scores of heterosexuals went unchallenged in their continued acts of heterosexism . |
| 6 | They 'd been sitting still for too long . |
| 7 | Lots of inquiries about Foster and Allen they 're coming on the programme later they 've just got number one for the first time with their new video with their new single I do n't know I 'm not quite sure we 'll find out when they get here well they 've just got number one for the first time and they 've been trying hard for a long time . |
| 8 | A privately owned half-timbered cottage ( mostly 16th-century ) with pantiled roof and porches , it has been standing empty for years |
| 9 | It had been lying empty for months , he said . |
| 10 | It transpired that he had been sleeping rough for weeks and that his last known address was a Salvation Army hostel 100 miles away . |
| 11 | A minute earlier he had been feeling sorry for the men who were still out on house-to-house questioning . |
| 12 | He had been feeling cold for some time . |
| 13 | It 's been going ongoing for eighteen months two years change it |
| 14 | ‘ It 's been standing empty for a couple of years . |