Example sentences of "[vb base] [been] [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then obviously I 've been looking for the wrong qualities in my secretaries . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ As a matter of fact I 've been living for the past two years with a wonderful man . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Then nine tenths of the rubbish they 've been printing for the last few weeks will be seen for what it is . |
| 5 | They 've been expanding for the last four years . |
| 6 | It was found in a garden where they 've been digging for the past six weeks . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I 've been farming for the last 70 years and never seen anything like it . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I want to know what you 've been doing for the past four days . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ What you 've been doing for the past four months ! |
| 11 | ‘ You 're a bloody good photographer and the work you 've been doing for the last five years proves it . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It beats changing nappies , which is what I 've been doing for the last 5 months . |
| 14 | ‘ What the ‘ ell do you think we 've been doin' for the last hour ? ’ asked Tommy . |
| 15 | and they can put that on the recorder but I 've been told for the last two and a half years by this government that I am not unemployed . |
| 16 | Rory , have you heard a single word I 've been saying for the past five mintues ? ’ |
| 17 | The following CAA Safety Evenings have been arranged for the coming months : |
| 18 | Hundreds of parachutes have been prepared for the major drop over Salisbury Plain tonight and over the next few days . |
| 19 | Sumisho Electronics Corp is is to distribute the parallel database servers from Bracknell , Berkshire-based White Cross Systems Ltd in Japan : three orders worth £750,000 have been placed for the 9010 Deskside Server — two for customers , one for Sumisho 's own Tokyo office . |
| 20 | Seven orders have been received for the new jet which will have a 3,600-mile range . |
| 21 | More important , he set about gathering the Wordsworths into the Quantock fold , hastening a visit which must in any case have been intended for the near future . |
| 22 | Since then several major houses have been secured for the National Trust in this way , notably Belton , Calke and Kedleston . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | As my hon. Friend rightly said , the construction of the 08 , the fourth boat , is currently under way and authorities have been given for the long lead items . |
| 25 | Many explanations have been given for the careful measurements and statistical information so frequent in Wordsworth 's early poetry , for example : but surely even this may ultimately go back to a desire to placate the scientific and Lockean tradition . |
| 26 | Several reasons have been given for the rapid growth of the professions . |
| 27 | Most of the figures that have been given for the projected growth of the presentation graphics market in this country , and Europe as a whole , seem to be based on the assumption that there will be a significant change towards the use of 35mm slides . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Using the fluid inclusions trapped in quartz , one of the most common minerals associated with metalliferous ores , precision rubidium-strontium isochrons have been obtained for the actual ore fluids . |