Example sentences of "[vb base] [been] [verb] [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hell 's teeth , baby — we 've been living together for the last two years or more . ’ |
| 2 | Do you think I 've been staying here for the good of my health ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've been rehearsing steadily for the tour and live we are very confrontational . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | His remarks will disappoint many right-wing Tories who have been pushing hard for the Government to give a firm commitment to privatisation . |
| 8 | His remarks will disappoint many right-wing Tories who have been pushing hard for the Government to give a firm commitment to privatisation . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | However , no services have been developed explicitly for the prevention of suicide attempts . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ They have been coming here for the past six years . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | We have been working together for the past three days . |
| 20 | The effects of the net changes in social class have been modelled explicitly for the university sector in a number of forecasts ( Diamond and Smith , 1982 , 1984 ; Diamond , 1985 ; AUT , 1983 ; Collins , 1983 ) as well as implicitly by the DES ( 1984a , b , 1986b ) .4 These effects have been the most important single factor for which data have been available at a national level albeit only for the university sector . |
| 21 | Australian mining companies have been pressing hard for the upgrade for the past 18 months but , ironically , demand for Landsat data in the last few months has dropped by 60 per cent . |
| 22 | And now to a village where the church bells have been rung properly for the first time in twenty years . |
| 23 | Damaged by fire ten years ago and closed ever since they have been restored especially for the exhibition the Neo-classical architecture and decorative elements making an ideal setting for Canova 's works . |
| 24 | Most developed countries are doing so already — and in fact have been doing so for the past sixty years . |
| 25 | About three years ago I was running a workshop for students training to be secondary teachers at the Institute of Education in London , something I and colleagues have been doing annually for the last ten years or so . |
| 26 | The scarves have been designed exclusively for the National Trust and cost £45 each . |
| 27 | I 'm 32 and have been climbing seriously for the last 18 years , which helped me get accepted . |
| 28 | Various explanations have been put forward for the existence of such large , complex setts and the presence of outlier setts . |
| 29 | Similar explanations have been put forward for the distributions of herbaceous plants , as in Ischnosiphon spp . |
| 30 | We first meet Richard Faucenbois as a boy approaching his twelfth birthday in The Black Riders ; The Stormy Petrel and The House of the Paladin return to the boy at fourteen and fifteen , when he has already earned his nickname of the Stormy Petrel , and in The Betrayer he moves into his sixteenth year with agonising decisions to make ; in three later books ( Richard and the Golden Horseshoe , The Red Rose of Ruvina and The Secret of the White Peacock , he is in his mid-twenties and the chases and escapes of youth have been put aside for the role of diplomat and teacher . |