Example sentences of "have been [verb] [adv] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just love the way that kid must 've been standing out there for what , fifteen minutes ? |
| 2 | The Po delta has been moving forward irresistibly for aeon upon aeon since late Tertiary times and will presumably , in the course of time , fill the Adriatic with its sediments from the decaying Alps . |
| 3 | An application has been made once more for July 13 and 14 , but the key factor is the meeting at Killarney which normally clashes with the Maze festival . |
| 4 | Social class is not the only speaker variable which presents problems of definition and interpretation , but it has been singled out here for detailed discussion for two reasons . |
| 5 | The banner has been printed separately above for you to cut out and add to your own Steam Tank . |
| 6 | Cotte ( pp. 71 – 2 ) distinguishes two main senses of let , the first of which is described as " the non-intervention of an agent in an action which has been initiated independently of him/her and has been going on already for a certain time " , and can be illustrated by : ( 214 ) He would n't even dance with her at Gavin 's party . |
| 7 | Now the District Council have taken a lot of money off this town , over the market stalls now , for a number of years , and I believe if they 're going to do a scheme like this which has been going on now for over eight years , it should be done all in one go . |
| 8 | After all , evolution has been going on now for about four billion years as far as we know and there are n't very many long-lived organisms . |
| 9 | Batty , speaking on Leeds clubcall , said yesterday : ‘ The speculation has been going on now for a couple of years . |
| 10 | Because comprehensive education has been introduced too recently for its effects to show up clearly in his Anglo-Welsh sample of boys born in 1960–65 , Heath 's conclusions are in their view simply premature . |
| 11 | This would require a great deal of organisation to ensure compatibility of all the units involved , but ICAO did a similar thing many years ago with ILS air and ground equipment and that has been working successfully now for over thirty-five years . |
| 12 | More important is the fact that nobody can really tell whether Germany has a successful economy because of its voting system ( though , between you and me , this seems as unlikely as a cart pulling a horse ) or whether it seems to have satisfactory constitutional arrangements because its economy has been working so well for so long . |
| 13 | As part of the Initiative , datasets derived from the Census are being held at Manchester Computing Centre and the Census Dissemination Unit has been set up initially for the period from 1992 to 1997 to support them ; the Census Microdata Unit has also been set up in the Econometrics department of Manchester University . |
| 14 | So , I have told him before because he has been told off before for talking you know at the back |
| 15 | He has only been a reserve for Wales all season , although I believe he has been playing very well for his club . |
| 16 | As a career move , it was a disaster : for the past 300 years , he has been remembered almost solely for having been the butt of some of Dryden 's most swingeing satirical couplets . |
| 17 | The pupils thought he 'd been brought in specially for their benefit and turned up the next week with more surrealistic pieces . |
| 18 | A team of Education Ministers will have been locked up together for days or even weeks on end to thrash out the details of the Bill . |
| 19 | HAD anyone suggested back in December that Scotland would be in a position to win the Triple Crown by the last match of 1993 , just after the A XV had played Italy , they would probably have been led quietly away for a mental examination . |
| 20 | TANK GIRL is now going the way of all great cult heroes , having been fought over hard for a film by Hollywood . |
| 21 | Sally went , relieved at not having had her love bite spotted but filled with indignation at having been blamed so unjustly for the Gran Bristow episode . |
| 22 | In divertissements , although it is possible that they reflected the spectacle in some way when dances were characterized , large-scale key-changes seem to have been brought in mainly for the sake of musical variety . |
| 23 | His home in Majorca had been built not only for his own retirement but as somewhere to provide temporary refuge for disadvantaged children . |
| 24 | Now he is churning out line with a 15lb breaking strain and it is proving so popular that he has now got rid of the old banger he had been driving around in for years and bought his first executive saloon . |
| 25 | She had n't known what it meant then , but now she knew it had been inscribed there just for her . |
| 26 | It had been taken along here for 30 fathoms and stopped at a fault beyond which the vein had been lost . |
| 27 | This stick had been used so often for beating me that it was now quite smooth . |
| 28 | A spokesman for the county council said : ‘ Before that unfortunate incident it had been working very successfully for several hours . |
| 29 | We had been going out together for four years ; he was more like a brother than a boyfriend . |
| 30 | By 1988 licences for gold prospecting had been issued not only for Connemara but also in counties Cavan , Kerry , Monaghan , Tipperary and Wicklow . |