Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Funny that they 'd both been heading for the same place , though . |
| 2 | They 'd both been working for nearly two years , and all that time they had n't been paid a penny . |
| 3 | They 've already been walking for several weeks , many carrying their possessions in their school bags . |
| 4 | They 've all been waiting for more than 2 years for plastic surgery at Stoke Mandeville hospital near Aylesbury . |
| 5 | To some degree they had already been catering for children with special needs . |
| 6 | The implication of moral blackmail in robbing patient services to pay nurses remained a ghost at the banquet for the media , and for many nurses , who had still to reconcile the jobs they had perhaps been doing for years with the management 's idea of their responsibilities , and the clinical grade to which they aspired . |
| 7 | They had undoubtedly been asking for trouble . |
| 8 | Although they have only been trading for the last ten years , they continue the tradition of using a water powered mill which started in the 1800s . |
| 9 | A number of experiments on bone modification in soil have been initiated , but they have only been running for five years and so far there is no good evidence of any change . |
| 10 | Although they have apparently been happening for much longer , abductions first started coming to light in the late Sixties , but they 've really taken over UFO culture since the publication of Communion in 1987 . |