Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] their [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Tavernor has been fighting their case for more than forty years . |
| 2 | When the judge called the jury back this afternoon they 'd been considering their verdict for one and a half days . |
| 3 | I was amazed to realise that some of them had been using their machines for five years and had no idea of the machines capabilities because all the instructions are written in either English , Spanish or Japanese ; nothing in Thai . |
| 4 | Both the interrogators had been doing their job for so long that they no longer thought much about what they were saying . |
| 5 | Politicians and political parties for some months prior to the announcement of the date of the election had been making their arrangements for manifestoes and candidates . |
| 6 | Computers would compete with manual labourers , but Western countries had been losing their jobs for years already ( as anyone knows who buys plimsolls in the supermarket and reads the label . ) |
| 7 | Theorists all over the world had been redoing their sums for nothing . |
| 8 | The Irish in Britain Representation Group led a march from Whittington Park calling for the release of the Birmingham 6 and the Guildford 4 , who have been protesting their innocence for the past 14 years . |
| 9 | And this will assist the fragmentation around the imagined absoluteness of ethnic differences upon which both the New Right and the ‘ cultural nationalists ’ from the ethnic minorities have been premising their demands for cultural separatism in education ( cf. |
| 10 | Dog owners from all over the country have been showing their appreciation for what they claim is the most royal of breeds . |
| 11 | It 's just , he must have felt so out of it , stuck here while all our brave boys have been doing their bit for us . ’ |