Example sentences of "[vb base] be [v-ing] [adv] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I raised with David Ingram at my JAR a matter which I 've been mulling over for a while , arising from my role as Welfare Officer . |
| 2 | You 've been mooning about for a few weeks , ’ she chuckled , ruefully . |
| 3 | We 've been humping away for a whole two and a half pages . |
| 4 | ‘ Yeah , it 's a collection of tunes that I 've been working on for a while . |
| 5 | ‘ In some cases smoking is as addictive as heroin and it is difficult for people to give up when they have been inhaling deeply for a number of years , ’ he told a news conference at the Royal Society in London . |
| 6 | Larry and Tina have been living together for a year . |
| 7 | We have been arguing here for a view of the state in which governments are managing not only class and social relations but also individuals . |
| 8 | The first and third shows , ( dis ) parities and countervail , profile with work of two groups of women who have been working collectively for a number of years . |
| 9 | Because of that the reactors had to undergo a licensing procedure from Nuclear , Now that survey , which they have been carrying out for a number of months now , almost certainly would require that a number of major improvements be made to those reactors , and they just have n't got the money to do that at the moment . |
| 10 | ‘ These stories have been going round for a long time , and they grow with the telling . ’ |
| 11 | Social anthropologists can and do study members of their own society and they have been doing so for a long time , though mostly they do not do it very well . |
| 12 | I mean that people like , you know , have said that the British secret intelligence have been have been doing now for a quite long time have been waging a sort of undercover war and er I 'm sure some of it 's true |