Example sentences of "that have been [v-ing] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is seldom given as good an excuse for playing rough as it was this week by the blunder of the guerrilla force that has been fighting it for 23 years in Namibia and by the embarrassing unreadiness of the United Nations peacekeeping force to do its job of supervising the Namibian peace settlement . |
| 2 | I WOULD like to post a question that has been troubling me for some time . |
| 3 | The expression that had been haunting her for nearly two days . |
| 4 | As he glanced up at her , his eyes shuttered , she found herself asking another question that had been puzzling her for a while . |
| 5 | Last night , she had taken one of the wolfdogs that had been following her for weeks . |
| 6 | That was it until handover on Monday , which she hoped would be enough time to shake off the cold that had been dogging her for the last couple of days . |
| 7 | You should be able to solve some problems that have been bothering you for some time , especially those connected with your work . |
| 8 | And I 'll tell you right now that unless you listen to the people that have been doing it for twenty years , in other words you do n't make appointments to go and see people to talk about |