Example sentences of "[vb base] been [v-ing] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then obviously I 've been looking for the wrong qualities in my secretaries . ’ |
| 2 | I 've been saving for a long time with Alma |
| 3 | ‘ As a matter of fact I 've been living for the past two years with a wonderful man . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Then nine tenths of the rubbish they 've been printing for the last few weeks will be seen for what it is . |
| 6 | They 've been expanding for the last four years . |
| 7 | It was found in a garden where they 've been digging for the past six weeks . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I 've been farming for the last 70 years and never seen anything like it . ’ |
| 10 | I 've been pushing for a long time but erm down here ? |
| 11 | They 've been calling for an alternative route to the A 421 since World War Two . |
| 12 | Aggie 's friend knows about him , but , as he said , they ca n't pin anything on to him ; they 've been tryin' for a long time . |
| 13 | It 's one of the delightful , I 've been recruiting for a long time and it 's it 's one of those erm delightful things to be able to say to people on the phone when they tell me they 're fifty or fifty four to say that 's not a problem . |
| 14 | ‘ I want to know what you 've been doing for the past four days . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ What you 've been doing for the past four months ! |
| 16 | ‘ You 're a bloody good photographer and the work you 've been doing for the last five years proves it . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It beats changing nappies , which is what I 've been doing for the last 5 months . |
| 19 | ‘ What the ‘ ell do you think we 've been doin' for the last hour ? ’ asked Tommy . |
| 20 | The other thing we do sort of every now and then , and next time will be Easter , we actually have some people in costume who actually reoccupy the house over Waster weekend in this case as as the household of William and they 've been coming for a long time now and they 've got set into the set into their roles quite well . |
| 21 | It shows what we 've been saying for a long time , how fragile the markets in this recycling are , and I still stick to what I 've thought all along , that marketing comes first and making the product comes second . |
| 22 | Rory , have you heard a single word I 've been saying for the past five mintues ? ’ |
| 23 | For years , American X-ray astronomers have been pushing for an Advanced X-ray Astrophysics facility ( AXAF ) which would have better sensitivity and resolution of detail , than all other X-ray telescopes presently planned . |
| 24 | If you have been hunting for the perfect diet for a very long time it will be difficult to stop , actually to believe that good weight control can be established without resorting to one special diet that you go on ( and then , and this is the snag , come off again ) . |
| 25 | In addition to controlling the visitors during the parade , they have been collecting for the WRAC Association and the collection boxes must be returned to Corps Headquarters . |
| 26 | As far as Kuwait is concerned we 'd like to see our country free again and this gives us the type of hope we have been wanting for the past six months , and I am sure for the people inside Kuwait — because I was there for about three weeks prior to the after the invasion I was there and I had to escape that country . |
| 27 | In times of exchange rate volatility , such as we have been experiencing for the past few years , most overseas buyers will want to be invoiced in their own currency and avoid any exchange risk . |
| 28 | Mr Clarke effectively slapped down the Cabinet dissenters — John Redwood , Peter Lilley and Michael Portillo — who have been calling for the already-tight £254 billion spending target to be cut . |
| 29 | Mr Clarke effectively slapped down the Cabinet dissenters — John Redwood , Peter Lilley and Michael Portillo — who have been calling for the already-tight £254bn spending target to be cut . |
| 30 | When we have breakfast , on the 8th floor , we can look down on the river , and watch all the river traffic , including large passenger vessels , big merchant ships belching smoke , strings of wooden barges , and big and small old-fashioned junks , which look as if they have been sailing for a 100 years at least . |