Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] [verb] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I understand that all the counterfoils and voting slips cast are kept securely for a period after an election until they are eventually destroyed . |
| 2 | Hell 's teeth , baby — we 've been living together for the last two years or more . ’ |
| 3 | Do you think I 've been staying here for the good of my health ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | You 've been sitting there for an hour watching the fire almost go out . |
| 6 | We 've been humping away for a whole two and a half pages . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've been rehearsing steadily for the tour and live we are very confrontational . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We have a great deal of sympathy er but whereas I do n't think some of the ideas that have been floated tonight for a Cornwall and Gibraltar West seat er or erm any kind of link up between Cornwall and any tail end of a Welsh seat we do n't think is practical and I think he 's got ta solve this problem er within the confines of Cornwall being regarded as part of England if not Anglo Saxon . |
| 11 | His remarks will disappoint many right-wing Tories who have been pushing hard for the Government to give a firm commitment to privatisation . |
| 12 | His remarks will disappoint many right-wing Tories who have been pushing hard for the Government to give a firm commitment to privatisation . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ If you were brought up in Brixton or Hackney , and have been stopped regularly for no reason by the police , you are bound to view them with a bit of hatred ’ … . |
| 15 | This pattern has been changing ; there is a tendency now for girls to keep their babies , and over the last year or so girls have been sent there for a variety of other reasons , but essentially so that they can be assessed on their ability to care for their child . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Larry and Tina have been living together for a year . |
| 22 | However , no services have been developed explicitly for the prevention of suicide attempts . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ They have been coming here for the past six years . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | If savings have been set aside for a funeral , and would now pay for one at current prices , that money , invested at the best rate of interest , may be enough to pay for the funeral when it occurs . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In its vast project to kick the mainframe habit and move to Unix-based client-server systems , Mead Corp 's database operator Mead Data Central Inc is spreading its favours around , and while some Unix business has gone to Hewlett-Packard Co , NCR Corp is also in there as a so-called strategic technology partner ( presumably its non-strategic technology partners are the people that supply the brooms they sweep the floor with ) as Mead moves existing applications off mainframes to a client-server environment : the two have been working together for the past year on projects to re-engineer access to the widely-used Lexis and Nexis on-line information services and create a new internal information system infrastructure and campus-wide network , and Mead is using NCR System 3000 symmetric multiprocessors and AT&T Co and NCR network products . |
| 30 | We have been working together for the past three days . |