Example sentences of "have [been] [v-ing] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it maybe , you see I 've had this , this has been hanging around for a month |
| 2 | This has been hanging about for a long , long time while I 've been on this and these people and they 're very special people I 've got this sword of hanging over my head . |
| 3 | We use this way in to stop people stealing what gear we have.Andy has been scratching around for a regular roof over his head for a year , ever since he lost his job and his home burned down in a fire . |
| 4 | East Belfast-based midfielder Keery ( 28 ) has been holding out for a better deal than the one on offer . |
| 5 | Robert Taylor has been listening out for the sounds of an economic recovery |
| 6 | Over in Cheltenham , Frank Ford has been watching out for the first signs of winter . |
| 7 | Dr Peggy Heeks reports on research she has been carrying out for the British Library |
| 8 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 9 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 10 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 11 | It is part of a rather complicated arrangement that has been going on for a few years now . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
| 13 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
| 14 | In Guatemala too , the 1980s marked a high point of repression in a political conflict which has been going on for the best part of thirty years . |
| 15 | The whiplash dynamics of Batman Returns represent the culmination of a process that has been going on for the last 15 years . |
| 16 | It is common for patients to appear for their first out-patient appointment with one or other of these problems , which has been going on for the previous few weeks . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The old Moscow publishers Iskusstvo managed to release just one book last year , and having exhausted its resources , it was forced to suspend publication of the journal Iskusstvo , which has been coming out for a number of decades . |
| 19 | DHA 1 has been waiting patiently for a new DGH for 25 years . |
| 20 | Hills said : ‘ She has been crying out for a mile , and the way the race was run she has been lucky enough not to have had too hard a race . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | OSF 's singular appearance changes the rules the industry has been playing by for the past few years , narrowing the gap between the two camps , and allowing more room for the players to manoeuvre . |
| 23 | Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age . |
| 24 | as if she 'd been waiting outside for a convenient pause in their conversation , the vaporeuse knocked on the door and opened it . |
| 25 | And Ben like when we were sort of there Ben sort of we 'd been sitting around for a while and he said it 's very embarrassing to have to ask this but you 're staying the night and stuff erm are you two a couple or are you just friends so no , just friends but it 's alright , if you do n't have any spare rooms we 'll be perfectly happy to sleep together , do n't worry . |
| 26 | Might have been queuing up for the keep-fit actually , yes I was , I was queuing up to go to keep-fit and there was a woman in the queue saying that about so and so and so , ooh he 's moving she said ! |
| 27 | If it had been someone else 's funeral George would have been looking out for the nearest pub . |
| 28 | This , like the argument about human progress , suggests that the universe can have been going only for a finite time . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Englishmen had been settling overseas for a century and a half but their colonies had been inhabited by people who , apart from the slaves who got no choice in the matter , had no particular difficulty in committing themselves to being loyal to King George : Englishmen , Scotsmen , Irishmen , or Germans would accept the King without question , and the Dutch of New York and the Acadians of Nova Scotia were almost the only people who had ever been asked to make a serious change of allegiance , which had been harder for the Acadians because of religious differences . |