Example sentences of "have been [verb] [adv] [det] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe it has been charging too little for the uncertainties involved , but that is another matter . |
| 2 | Though the big R100 BMW has been designed as much for cross-country work as for the road , the wheels bucked and skidded in the grey waterlogged soil as Trent fought the handlebars , weaving between scrub bush and clumps of hagara grass . |
| 3 | She 'd been thinking just that for most of the long , aching , sleepless night . |
| 4 | There was no covert there larger than an acre or two and they had been placed as much for their scenic effect as for their game-preserving role . |
| 5 | By 1951 the Art Galleries had been doing just that for 50 years . |
| 6 | The ability to understand the mistake made by another individual and the willingness to make the effort to correct it have been considered too much for non-human animals , because of the implication of intentionality of behaviour , and of a kind of consciousness . |
| 7 | When such researchers have been doing just this for over 100 years , is it not sensible to take note of what they are saying ? |
| 8 | He 's been screwin' too much for his own good . |