Example sentences of "[det] [noun] have [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She calmly told me that the police had called round and that Nassim had been looking for me . |
| 2 | The first is that some cricketers have been cheating for years in a most blatant manner . |
| 3 | In the UK , this ideal has been eroding for some time and seems unlikely to survive the escalating costs of current treatments . |
| 4 | Despite the fact that very few reservoirs have been functioning for more than 10 years , cases have been described in which dysplasia and carcinoma have been seen in colitic pouches and adenomas in FAP pouches . |
| 5 | I suppose I 've seen Matthew with the safe open , and I may have noticed the books , but this firm has been going for more than a century and one does n't take much notice of such things , one has grown up with them . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ This thing has been smouldering for years and now it 's finally broken through . |
| 7 | Lesley saw it more as a letting-off of repressed energy : ‘ I think this thing has been smouldering for years and now it 's finally broken through . |
| 8 | Now , so far er , the acquisitions that have come onto the market have n't really reflected er , the trading conditions in which all companies in this country have been operating for the last eighteen months . |
| 9 | This system has been evolving for centuries , first for bourgeoisies all over the world , then spreading to the working classes in the First World , and slowly but surely penetrating to all those with disposable income everywhere . |
| 10 | ‘ There is no magic solution to this issue and employees who smoke will need to harness their own willpower , but the ban could be the kind of incentive that some smokers have been waiting for to help them reduce or stop smoking and improve their general health . ’ |
| 11 | Work towards this goal has been progressing for some time , culminating in a public launch at a major conference , held in the Forum Hotel , Glasgow on 23 October , 1989 . |
| 12 | And they would then sell these goods at high prices to those buyers who have not discovered that some sellers have been selling for low prices . |
| 13 | Many of these children had been attending for a long time , so they already knew many things , specially the important things like how to stand in line and what to do when your pen-nib broke . |
| 14 | Well the distance is equal to a hundred miles an hour , times how many hours has been travelling for ? |
| 15 | At last the government recognised what many researchers had been saying for years : that corporal punishment did not address the causes of bad behaviour , caused resentment among older pupils in particular , and was ‘ inimical to the quality of relationships between teachers and pupils upon which good behaviour is based ’ . |
| 16 | In 1984–5 , most of the courses in all institutions had been running for less than five years , though about a third of courses in Colleges , including nearly half the B Ed Primary courses had been operating in the way described for more than five years . |
| 17 | However , many trusts have been running for less than five years . |
| 18 | This may sound an obvious sort of compromise , but it is the kind of ethical advice many managers have been looking for . |
| 19 | It is because those Governments have been arguing for coal utilisation while our Government have sat on their hands wanting to take a swipe at miners and their communities . |
| 20 | Both crews have been training for months . |
| 21 | Both countries had been speaking for some time of their desire to improve relations , without making much progress . |
| 22 | What TC said , most people have been saying for the last couple of seasons . |