Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [be] [verb] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bob Peckham has been juggling for 12 years he regularly entertains shoppers in Oxford city centre . |
| 2 | FORMER British light-heavywight champion Steve McCarthy has been suspended for three months , fined £1,000 and banned from fighting abroad by the British Board of Control after being disqualified in the third round of a bout with Darius Michalczeski in Hamburg in September . |
| 3 | Edith Harlow has been teaching for 40 years and Teachers in this area felt the time was ripe for celebration . |
| 4 | This account of urban housing in the reign of Queen Victoria has been protracted for three reasons . |
| 5 | As deputy chief of Sabah 's Institute for Development Studies , whose activities were viewed by the central government as a threat to the integrity of the Malaysian Federation , Ongkili had been held for 59 days under the Internal Security Act on suspicion of carrying out actions prejudicial to national security . |
| 6 | Jasper and Bert had been gone for ten days . |
| 7 | ‘ Our factory in Scotland has been going for 15 years ’ says Smillie . |
| 8 | A twenty five year old father from Worcester has been jailed for two years after his baby daughter suffered horrific injuries while in his care . |
| 9 | This second tranche of the SAF had been withheld for six months until Sri Lanka had agreed to the implementation of a policy framework paper outlining the conditions for the government 's stabilization programme . |
| 10 | The opening night of the Folies had been postponed for two days . |
| 11 | Tom Dreaper could not convince him that racing was a business to be taken seriously , and Foinavon had been sold for 2,000 guineas . |
| 12 | The Iranian consulate in Geneva had been occupied for four hours on Dec. 14 , 1988 , by opponents of the Tehran regime and evidence had been found that Tale had been collecting information on the Iranian exile community in Switzerland . |
| 13 | Donald and Elinor had been talking for thirty minutes . |
| 14 | Janet Aughton has been battling for two years to get her two sons , Steven who 's 7 , and six year old Jason … moved from the council school they attend in Gloucester.She says the two children are gradually going blind because of a hereditary defect that 's already made her lose her sight . |
| 15 | Former World Heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson has been jailed for six years for raping a former beauty queen . |
| 16 | That is why the peace process , for which Israel has been striving for 44 years , has to be seen as the only viable solution . |
| 17 | By the time he and Norman strode out to try to win the 1986 British Open , Bender had been caddying for eighteen years , having picked up his first serious bag when he was 18 years old . |
| 18 | Jesus , filled with the Spirit , goes off into the wilderness , the place where Israel had been tested for forty . |
| 19 | After Miss Chalk had been retained for 5,000 guineas David said : ‘ I think my father is pleased . |
| 20 | During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1 , in 1914 still within living memory , Paris had been besieged for four months and forced to surrender . |
| 21 | Mary has been retired for eight years after 33 years ' service in the Bank at Scarinish . |
| 22 | As Mary recovered at home in neighbouring Bakewell yesterday , husband Harold , 85 , a retired engineer , said : ‘ Mary has been driving for 17 years , and is very good . |
| 23 | DUBLIN 'S Tommy Carr has been banned for six months following his sending off in the recent National League Football final against Donegal . |
| 24 | Twenty-two year old Gerald Bagshall from Barton Village Road in Oxford has been jailed for two years for possession and supply of drugs . |
| 25 | Jo and Ryan had been dating for six months and had progressed some way beyond parking now . |
| 26 | Twenty-five year old David Taylor of Chillingworth Crescent in Woodfarm has been jailed for eighteen months for possession of drugs . |
| 27 | The former chairman of Swindon Town Football Club Brian Hillier has been jailed for twelve months . |
| 28 | I mean , dammit all , Charles has been working for 40 years and I 've been working for 22 ’ ) . |
| 29 | Sometimes when Tuffers has been hit for four , he has immediately asked for a fielder to be moved to plug the gap . |
| 30 | She and Caan had been separated for three years . |