Example sentences of "[vb base] been [verb] for [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've been living for the last ten years in an environment where they expect there to be a high level of occult activity in society . |
| 2 | Then nine tenths of the rubbish they 've been printing for the last few weeks will be seen for what it is . |
| 3 | They 've been expanding for the last four years . |
| 4 | Dictating condolences to the mother of a murdered husband whom you 've been cuckolding for the last three years would take more than his limited social vocabulary . |
| 5 | I 've been farming for the last 70 years and never seen anything like it . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You 're a bloody good photographer and the work you 've been doing for the last five years proves it . |
| 7 | A game of tag ( see below ) may well be just the thing ; but if they 've just come in from the playground and that 's what they 've been doing for the last fifteen minutes , it would be a bit of a waste of time . |
| 8 | It beats changing nappies , which is what I 've been doing for the last 5 months . |
| 9 | ‘ What the ‘ ell do you think we 've been doin' for the last hour ? ’ asked Tommy . |
| 10 | and they can put that on the recorder but I 've been told for the last two and a half years by this government that I am not unemployed . |
| 11 | The good news is that plans have been made for a third building . |
| 12 | Two brick arches put up to channel the waters of an underground river have been uncovered for the first time in nearly two hundred years . |
| 13 | Confirmation classes have been televised for the first time in Estonia . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | What TC said , most people have been saying for the last couple of seasons . |
| 16 | Electric lighting and heating have been installed for the first time , but all fittings have been concealed as much as possible and all the original oil lamps and 19th century pews have been retained . |
| 17 | ‘ Some of the Wimbledon Dharjees , ’ went on Maisie , ‘ have been waiting for the Twenty-fourth Imam . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ I have been waiting for the last three years for an opportunity like this and I see it as the right time in my career to take it . |
| 19 | Following this group , a further 20 units have been identified for the next group and these 20 come from within a batch of fifty who will form the subsequent groups . |
| 20 | A RECORD entry of 129 bulls and 22 breeding females have been entered for the second Autumn Multi-breed Show and Sale of Pedigree Beef Cattle beef cattle , on the Royal Welsh Showground , Builth Wells , on November 13 . |
| 21 | Regarding the lower levels , it now seems that the first-century building was an elaborate Roman house richly decorated with stuccoes and fresco , the remains of which have been published for the first time . |
| 22 | I do n't know then what we have been doing for the last four weeks , when we first asked . ’ |
| 23 | The windows have been cleaned for the first time in a year , and what with my contact lenses ( which I 've had since Christmas ) , the view is much improved . |
| 24 | Merseyside duo Jamie Cassidy ( Liverpool ) and David Thompson ( Wirral ) have been picked for the first England boys under 15s national trial at the Lilleshall Sports Centre next weekend . |
| 25 | This is primarily due to process integration — eg filtration and drying have been combined for the first time in the Pergascript operation . |