Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] [verb] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I see you 've got no carpets down anywhere the door 's not painted and he said you 've been living here for two years ! |
| 2 | Mrs Probyn 's husband has told police that the pair , who 've been living apart for several months , had a row . |
| 3 | They 've been hunting here for 150 years . |
| 4 | Because they 're a year younger than I am , two years younger and they 've been registered now for six , seven , eight , or nine years . |
| 5 | not freehold land freehold buildings we 've been depreciating now for many many years . |
| 6 | He said almost sulkily , ‘ I 've been behaving badly for two years , and you know it , and you do n't even mind . ’ |
| 7 | I 've been going downhill for several days now . |
| 8 | I 've been working here for fourteen years but I ca n't buy postage stamps without his say-so . |
| 9 | I 've been working here for seven years now and I really enjoy my job . |
| 10 | I I 've been coming here for forty years so far and and provocative statement I think in your programme this Autumn is the best that you 've had for years it 's a very good combination of classical and and modern plays and I really congratulate you on this programme and I would like to see that standard maintained . |
| 11 | I 've been coming here for some time and only now am I relaxed there . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been waiting here for two hours , Fagin , ’ said the stranger . |
| 13 | I 've been waiting here for ten minutes = I 'm waiting here ten minutes |
| 14 | And then the stock stock take was dropped then for four or five days . |
| 15 | Sera taken before and after transplantation have been tested retrospectively for anti-HC Ab in 12 patients . |
| 16 | While Visa debit cards have been accepted internationally for some time , the Mastercard equivalent , Switch , is still waiting to be linked up to the Mastercard/Eurocard payment system . |
| 17 | They have been living here for seven years but now they are being inundated by refuse . |
| 18 | The Revenue treat the separation as likely to be permanent if the parties have been living apart for one year ( Pinson on Revenue Law , 17th edn , para 38 – 04 ) . |
| 19 | As most people in South Africa know , they have been living apart for some while — ostensibly on security grounds . |
| 20 | The central plains of China have been farmed continuously for thousands of years and you begin to wonder how they have stayed fertile . |
| 21 | Briefings have been developed exclusively for senior management ultimately responsible for the design , development , marketing and selling of IT-based products and systems . |
| 22 | Although the modules have been developed primarily for those in adult basic education , they are suited to a wide range of client groups . |
| 23 | Records have been kept there for two hundred years . |
| 24 | I have been lost here for eight years . ’ |
| 25 | Colleagues , the Parliament of the European Community and of the United Kingdom have seriously considered the consequences of the spillage of eighty five thousand tons of oil from oil tanker which ran aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands on the fifth of January nineteen ninety three and for a considerable time socialists of the European Parliament have been complaining incessantly for greater safety at sea . |
| 26 | ‘ I have been coming here for nine years and have a feel for the heart of the city and this song says it all . ’ |
| 27 | In particular , a limited number of bursaries have been set aside for mature students . |
| 28 | Several new instructions have been added specifically for superscalar Sparc implementations . |
| 29 | I have been waiting only for that so that I might go . ’ |
| 30 | Both products have been produced specifically for permed , damaged hair and they replenish moisture lost in the perming process . |