Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [adv] [prep] years " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | On top of this , the environmental time bomb that has been ticking away for years now seems ready to explode . |
| 2 | Martinez , another Spaniard , has been rising steadily for years and seems to be reaching her peak after a great three-set victory over Sabatini in the Rome final this month . |
| 3 | The man behind the take-over bid is understood to be a key figure in the Jersey tourist industry and has been trying unsuccessfully for years to get a Channel Island summer soccer tournament off the ground . |
| 4 | The Church 's music can also be taken into the street and market-place , as the Salvation Army has been doing successfully for years . |
| 5 | During a civil action that has been going on for years over ownership , he was made a ward of court and his bones kept in shoe boxes in a bank . ’ |
| 6 | A sort of messy , mucky drama has been going on for years , about unselectivity and conglomeration : ‘ Let them have the experience , all of them , every one of them , every minute of every time ! ’ ( p. 8 ) . |
| 7 | Now , butterflies live only a matter of weeks , and yet this has been going on for years . |
| 8 | ‘ I know that picking the seam has been going on for years , but tampering with the ball is a different matter . |
| 9 | Haunting has been going on for years and years and years . |
| 10 | As my hon. and learned Friend has accepted the closure of Bir Zeit is part of the systematic infringement of the Geneva convention by Israel which has been going on for years , should not a more robust approach therefore be taken , both by our Government and by the European Community , and should not economic measures at some stage be taken in relation to Israel to prevent the continuation of such unacceptable violations of human rights and of the Geneva convention ? |
| 11 | The battle for him though has been going on for years ai n't it Gordon ? |
| 12 | In fact Arlene has been working here for years . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ This has been a subject that has been bubbling around for years and with an ageing population , it is an issue that has n't been talked about enough . ’ |
| 14 | The DSS has been arguing successfully for years that if a claimant was ignorant of his entitlement , that did not justify his failure to claim or justify his having a back payment . |
| 15 | ‘ A year ago father went to Brittany ; he 'd been saving up for years and he went on a nine-day excursion . |
| 16 | ‘ I wo n't deny that , Mrs Wilson , but there was a period , just before she disappeared … well , I say just before she disappeared but it may have been going on for years , I do n't know … there was a period when she was very unhappy , very unhappy indeed . ’ |
| 17 | Despite all the money the Politicals had been siphoning off for years , a very sore point with the rest of us , they claimed to have no material on the terrorists beyond a few isolated descriptions and photographs . |
| 18 | The expediter — ‘ Joy ’ — was the envoy of a client of mine : the Construction and Development Corporation of the Philippines ( CDCP ) , a local company my bank had been courting unsuccessfully for years . |
| 19 | He had carried her in his arms as naturally as if he had been doing so for years , and she had felt right there . |
| 20 | It was n't that long ago that John Hurt was drinking heavily , and had been doing so for years . |
| 21 | They said yes , Andrus did come on Fridays and had been doing so for years . |
| 22 | He climbed them sadly until finally he reached a low corridor , which many years ago had been decorated in dark brown : the paint had been flaking off for years . |
| 23 | But they had been saying so for years , for more than a decade now . |
| 24 | After a job which had taken up all of her energies , Elaine did n't realise how long she would need to do all the jobs she had been putting off for years . |
| 25 | Maeve sat crouched over a table using a pool of light from a huge candelabra to stab furiously with her needle at a piece of embroidery she had been working on for years . |
| 26 | She would phone the police and they would go out of their way to search her garden and reassure her of their vigilance , but it had been going on for years . |
| 27 | For God 's sake , this had been going on for years , with animals making a noise — surely this is what country life is all about and it would be a sad day if there were no noises from the farms or from the back gardens of our cottages . |
| 28 | Many had been decaying steadily for years : their owners had no use for them and could not imagine that anyone else would . |
| 29 | They feel comfortable in bed together — they 've been sleeping together for years after all , and the new-found passion is lovely and exciting . |
| 30 | Although they have been living together for years they have had no idea how the other really felt . |