Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aerospace team in Celomer has been working hard for the last nine years to get Deutsche Airbus approval for paints supplied from Celomer , and one year ago Celomer secured the first 100 tons contract . |
| 2 | Mark ‘ Zippy ’ Pretty has finally got over his mid-life crisis by red-pointing Mecca at Raven Tor , and has been celebrating continuously for the last six weeks . |
| 3 | But what makes HP 's claims more convincing than most is the support from traditional IBM mainframe software suppliers , something HP is said to have been putting together for the last 18 months . |
| 4 | Mr Devi Lal , for example , who had been lobbying hard for the home ministry to add to his deputy premiership , had to content himself with the agriculture ministry . |
| 5 | The ovoid seemed to project a kind of deadly aura and , as Rostov compared the black egg shape with his memory of the framework structures which he had encountered previously , he wondered if the designers had been striving consciously for the visual effect which they had achieved . |
| 6 | This was partly because Picasso , like Braque , was at this time working largely from memory ; indeed he had been doing so for the past three years . |
| 7 | Checking his watch he saw it was time to swim back to the canoe and his rendezvous with Roger Courtney , who had been paddling offshore for the last few hours , keeping the canoe head or stern towards the beach so that it was less likely to be seen . |
| 8 | Hell 's teeth , baby — we 've been living together for the last two years or more . ’ |
| 9 | Do you think I 've been staying here for the good of my health ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ We 've been rehearsing steadily for the tour and live we are very confrontational . |
| 13 | His remarks will disappoint many right-wing Tories who have been pushing hard for the Government to give a firm commitment to privatisation . |
| 14 | His remarks will disappoint many right-wing Tories who have been pushing hard for the Government to give a firm commitment to privatisation . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ They have been coming here for the past six years . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | We have been working together for the past three days . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Most developed countries are doing so already — and in fact have been doing so for the past sixty years . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I 'm 32 and have been climbing seriously for the last 18 years , which helped me get accepted . |