Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] [v-ing] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hell 's teeth , baby — we 've been living together for the last two years or more . ’ |
| 2 | I 've been wandering round for an hour swearing at everbody and everything . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | You 've been mooning about for a few weeks , ’ she chuckled , ruefully . |
| 5 | I ca n't of course foretell er what 's gon na happen in Eastern Europe , but looking externally er at the lower interest rates and the er more competitive value of the pound and internally at the improved cash flow and the actions that we 've been taking over for the past couple of years and I can say that there 's now generally a more optimistic feeling in the air amongst our group companies . |
| 6 | Do you think I 've been staying here for the good of my health ? |
| 7 | I ca n't believe it , I 've been slagging off for the three weeks this is crap , this is really naff . |
| 8 | No-one 's wanted to have a punt and we 've been scrambling about for the odd winner . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | You 've been sitting there for an hour watching the fire almost go out . |
| 11 | We 've been humping away for a whole two and a half pages . |
| 12 | ‘ Yeah , it 's a collection of tunes that I 've been working on for a while . |
| 13 | In the U K the improvement plans we 've been working on for the last two years have been very successfully implemented but they 've been overtaken by the U K recession . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ We 've been rehearsing steadily for the tour and live we are very confrontational . |
| 16 | His remarks will disappoint many right-wing Tories who have been pushing hard for the Government to give a firm commitment to privatisation . |
| 17 | His remarks will disappoint many right-wing Tories who have been pushing hard for the Government to give a firm commitment to privatisation . |
| 18 | The village is fascinating ; the sort of place the press have been raving about for the past four years when they talk about ‘ unspoilt Turkey ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Larry and Tina have been living together for a year . |
| 24 | To most people the term Gatt means very little but the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade which 108 countries have been wrestling over for the past six years is vital to fair trading throughout the world . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ They have been coming here for the past six years . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 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 . |