Example sentences of "[vb past] been [verb] [pron] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I 'd been paying it for two years then |
| 2 | I 'd been doing it for five years . |
| 3 | Investigators belatedly found that the head of the bank , 35-year old Robert Gravier , had been bilking it for millions . |
| 4 | Later on in my undergraduate career I was lucky enough to be given some teaching by Dr Douglas Ross , consultant in Glasgow , and had personal experience of the efficacy of homoeopathy when he cured the gingivitis ( inflammation of the gums ) which had been plaguing me for three weeks with a homoeopathic preparation of mercury . |
| 5 | Sitting in her window , she commanded a good view of the vicarage garden and of the ‘ object ’ whose identity had been puzzling her for some days now . |
| 6 | Additionally , there may be a number of general domestic or luxury items which you had been promising yourself for some time and the only question is one of actual timing , i.e. determining the right moment to buy . |
| 7 | After eight weeks and a few x-rays , for which he staggered across his box ( we had borrowed an extension lead by this time ) , I was finally able to get the farrier to take Copper 's shoes off , as he had been wearing them for ten weeks . |
| 8 | She had been watching him for half an hour staring out at the view , motionless . |
| 9 | ‘ I realised I had been watching them for 15 minutes . |
| 10 | Zakir thanked me and then quietly revealed that he had been watching me for several days . |
| 11 | He had been monopolising her for most of the evening , or trying to , and she was growing less and less happy about it . |
| 12 | Ludens was by now , in an ordinary sense , more used to being with Marcus , less afraid of ‘ saying the wrong thing ’ , and had resolved today to ask a crude question which had been troubling him for some time . |
| 13 | Whereupon he tried it stante pede , shoved the stool away and played standing at the organ , at the same time working the pedal , and doing it all as if he had been practising it for several months . |
| 14 | It was ten o'clock and she had been ignoring it for half an hour . |
| 15 | Tulagai was flushed and it was apparent that Jotan had been baiting him for some time . |
| 16 | All the way home , pedalling furiously , she had been nerving herself for this confrontation . |
| 17 | That had been to strengthen her for all the troubles and problems she 'd had to deal with . |
| 18 | I had been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , he typed , as Harsnet had written . |