Example sentences of "[vb base] be [verb] [adv] for the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Hell 's teeth , baby — we 've been living together for the last two years or more . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been fed up for the last few years and people have been telling me I am in danger of wasting my time . |
| 3 | I ca n't of course foretell er what 's gon na happen in Eastern Europe , but looking externally er at the lower interest rates and the er more competitive value of the pound and internally at the improved cash flow and the actions that we 've been taking over for the past couple of years and I can say that there 's now generally a more optimistic feeling in the air amongst our group companies . |
| 4 | Do you think I 've been staying here for the good of my health ? |
| 5 | I ca n't believe it , I 've been slagging off for the three weeks this is crap , this is really naff . |
| 6 | No-one 's wanted to have a punt and we 've been scrambling about for the odd winner . |
| 7 | I 've been doing well for the last week , but I took this heavy cold , well from Thursday , since I 've took this heavy cold I 've hardly smoked . |
| 8 | Then you can tell me some more about that book you 've been buried in for the past week . " |
| 9 | In the U K the improvement plans we 've been working on for the last two years have been very successfully implemented but they 've been overtaken by the U K recession . |
| 10 | I 've been working abroad for the last twenty years , I 've just come back to the U K and my family 's all died , and I do n't know anybody , and I 'm going to start off working here . |
| 11 | He takes yachts from wherever they 've been laid up for the winter to their summer cruising grounds . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ We 've been rehearsing steadily for the tour and live we are very confrontational . |
| 13 | The differential impact of national and industry environmental forces upon the structure , process and outcomes of industrial relations have been examined empirically for the important metalworking industry across five countries . |
| 14 | From the first , our meteorite collecting programmes have been motivated not for the sake of numbers alone but by the hope that large quantities of fragments would include samples of rare or completely new type of meteorites . |
| 15 | His remarks will disappoint many right-wing Tories who have been pushing hard for the Government to give a firm commitment to privatisation . |
| 16 | His remarks will disappoint many right-wing Tories who have been pushing hard for the Government to give a firm commitment to privatisation . |
| 17 | The village is fascinating ; the sort of place the press have been raving about for the past four years when they talk about ‘ unspoilt Turkey ’ . |
| 18 | Stories have been rejected outright for the simple reason that they were ‘ too middle-class ’ , though one editor was constructive enough to suggest the writer might want to replace ballet and riding classes with swimming and gymnastics . |
| 19 | As a result of some 40 sub-projects involving all the Member States ( and often several groups within each one ) , databases of topography , soils , water resources and quality , biotopes , atmospheric emissions , climate , soil erosion and administrative boundaries have been built up for the whole Community and can be interrelated ; other data sets ( such as land cover , derived from satellite imagery ) have already been compiled for some of the Member States . |
| 20 | I would say that they ought to be able to spend at a level which is within the S S As that have been given both for the county and for the districts , and therefore we should be below the three hundred and seventy eight . |
| 21 | Although they have been pencilled in for the Cymru Alliance next season , Llani have faint hopes of winning a reprieve if a present club pulls out of the Konica League . |
| 22 | In addition to events previously announced , there will be a Virago Birthday Breakfast to get the conference off to a positive start on the Monday , and four more workshops have been firmed up for the afternoon : ‘ Goodbye to Gutenberg ’ ( speakers Tony Feldman , Japp Buchli of Scheltma Hokema Vermuelen , Paul Ayscough of Columbia TriStar and Michael Kemp of Franklin Electronic ) ; ‘ Targeting the Book Market ’ — The Role of Research ’ ( Peter Mouncey of the AA , Sue Morris of W H Smith and Leslie Henry of BML ) ; ‘ Financial Management for Booksellers ’ ( Ian Newman , Waterstones ) ; and ‘ Take Four Walls — Shop Design on a Budget ’ ( Barry Steadham , Insight Design ) . |
| 23 | But in the past year German authorities withdrew approval for certain components which Cameron and some other hot-air balloon manufacturers have been using worldwide for the past 20 years . |
| 24 | I have started divorce proceedings , as we have been living apart for the last two months , but now he is pleading with me to take him back . |
| 25 | I have started divorce proceedings , as we have been living apart for the last two months , but now he is pleading with me to take him back . |
| 26 | However , no services have been developed explicitly for the prevention of suicide attempts . |
| 27 | Inside , the columns are often from ruined Roman buildings but the capitals have been made specifically for the church and therefore the general interior scheme is more congruous than examples in Rome . |
| 28 | To most people the term Gatt means very little but the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade which 108 countries have been wrestling over for the past six years is vital to fair trading throughout the world . |
| 29 | Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel have been touring seriously for the last three years , having played to over a million people in a stint of two hundred and eighty-five concerts . |
| 30 | ‘ They have been coming here for the past six years . ’ |