Example sentences of "have [been] [v-ing] [prep] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Let's hope this is the last chapter for them — it has been hanging over them for more than a year — and they can now start to rebuild their lives . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ This has been hanging over us for too long . |
| 3 | The bank has been experimenting with it for seven years , but , this year , 100 branches will come on stream . |
| 4 | ‘ My dear , your real mother has been looking after you for the past twenty years , ’ said Miss Rose sharply . |
| 5 | Phyllis Aldworth , 64 , of Mable Avenue , Shildon , has been surviving on them for years . |
| 6 | It becomes clear after one has been working at something for several weeks , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that one is not going to achieve what one had hoped for . |
| 7 | If the employee has been working for you for up to eight weeks and does not have a linking letter or a Leaver 's statement , phone your Social Security office and ask if the start of the PIW you are dealing with links back to a claim to a Social Security benefit . |
| 8 | Mr Giles of Grimethorpe Motors has been advertising with us for two years and he is delighted with the results . |
| 9 | Mr. Edmonds has been talking to himself for years … now everyone listens |
| 10 | She 'd been looking into it for Ken anyway — as I told you . |
| 11 | And she 'd been talking to him for about half an hour and well er her son had come up |
| 12 | As the place was really his gig we could n't use it without him We 'd been talking about it for ages — and Bernie was always badgering us about it — but we 'd not really done anything about it . |
| 13 | ‘ She 'd been working on them for quite a while . |
| 14 | Now you suspected she 'd been lying to you for thirteen years . |
| 15 | But that was just a hope he 'd been tossing at me for a couple of years without any interest from me . |
| 16 | I must have been chatting to him for about 20 minutes and he told me he 'd needed an urgent lift . |
| 17 | She had not seen her nearest ‘ big house ’ neighbour , though she had been hearing about him for some time . |
| 18 | The prospect had been hanging over us for so many months that once Father ceased trading , it was as though the weight of worry was lifted . |
| 19 | Living Dead and Terminator slippers — people had been queuing for them for God 's sake — were being returned unused to the shops and credit notes cashed in for balls of wool and packets of scraperboard . |
| 20 | I felt this was a chance for me to put to rest one way or another this thing that had been nagging at me for such a long time . ’ |
| 21 | In October , Hopper married Michelle Phillips who had been living with him for some months . |
| 22 | Granny had been living with us for some time . |
| 23 | They had been living in it for years . |
| 24 | Once Celie finds out her sister was still alive and had been writing to her for all this time but she had not received any letters because Albert had intercepted the letters , she stopped writing to God . |
| 25 | Craig had been staying with her for some weeks now and she had grown used to seeing him there in her kitchen . |
| 26 | Then Riven asked the question that had been gnawing at him for the last day : ‘ What about Murtach ? ’ |
| 27 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
| 28 | I ought to have guessed , she had been purring over me for days , giving me arch looks . |
| 29 | He had been working on it for more than ten years . |
| 30 | This bloke , you know , had been working on it for fifty years nonstop and |