Example sentences of "[pers pn] has 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ He has been calling for a … ’ he glanced importantly at his notebook ‘ … |
| 4 | The trouble with the right hon. Gentleman is that he has been searching for a way to do nothing about this problem . |
| 5 | He has been waiting for the right offer for some time after turning down an approach from Italian club Pisa several seasons ago . |
| 6 | By the exhausted mechanical sound of it he has been sobbing for a long time . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In a conventional world , the Chancellor would simply roll his forecasts forward as he has been doing for the past two years now . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |