Example sentences of "have [been] [v-ing] [adj] for [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | People living near a rubbish tip which has been burning unchecked for six weeks fear their health is at risk . |
| 2 | The farmers from this village own land in the Buffer Zone that has been lying fallow for fourteen years , but which is now being opened up . |
| 3 | ‘ But it 's a lot of money for something which has been lying dead for twelve years . ’ |
| 4 | I mean can I just return to what Queenie Warley said about the rents , because basically what she said was the conservative view on council house rents was that yes they had to go up because the Government decreed they had to go up , that they would have put them up earlier so people would have been paying more for longer , and the phasing that they 're suggesting now what she did n't point out is that under the Conservative proposal people would finish up paying even higher rents than they will have to pay this year . |
| 5 | The shop had been standing empty for some time , and needed a great deal of work . |
| 6 | One family tea-time , when Auntie had been sitting silent for some time , she said : " It 's lucky there 's never anyone left in those offices at night . " |
| 7 | He had been feeling cold for some time . |
| 8 | with his permission he thought it was funny he saw the funny side of it as well , but they had this big argument for five minutes cos he thought what he 'd done was right and he said Jesus , I 've been using this for three years for the training in the branch er it makes you wonder does n't it erm but if you 're gon na do practical applications you 've got ta give people relevant examples perhaps you start off basics with an example that is correct and then you start building on that do n't you then you start giving them the deviations and all this sort of stuff . |
| 9 | Yeah , and you 've been doing that for many many years , English |
| 10 | I mean they 've been doing that for half a century or more , only now it 's getting more and they ca n't . |
| 11 | No , no there 's not I mean I 've been doing this for fifteen years , and quite simply is , if you like , I 've been up the ladder , the contacts that were I 've had were relatively junior fifteen years ago |
| 12 | Now now we 've been doing this for twenty years and I 've got a I 've got a feel for |
| 13 | I 've been doing this for twenty five years so the best deal I 've ever done is the sale I make each week which brings me three hundred quidHe later went onto spend over five hundred pounds on a Mickey Mouse Toy . |
| 14 | Now you 've been doing this for 25 years , that 's quite a long stint is n't it ? |
| 15 | And of course we 've been doing these for twenty years , folders . |
| 16 | Of claims that the relationship was one of passionate intimacy , the brigadier said : ‘ They have been suggesting that for some time . |
| 17 | It 's the first time they 've been to Britain , even though some have been teaching English for twenty years ; they 're staying at the Oxford House School of English , and will also visit the Oxford University Press as the trip has been made possible by an East German publishing house . |
| 18 | But they have been saying that for 20 years . |
| 19 | Theologians have been arguing this for two thousand years … ’ |
| 20 | The French and the US National Science Foundation have been doing this for some time . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It is interesting that a major conservation charity like the Trust has been served with a writ now , when we have been doing this for 30 years at Blickling , ’ he added . |
| 22 | It 's been going ongoing for eighteen months two years change it |