Example sentences of "they have been [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody left the queue : they were n't going to lose their place , they 'd been queueing for an hour . |
| 2 | But then , when you said they 'd been gone for a couple of years … ’ |
| 3 | It ran beside a broad , shaded boulevard of feathery pepper trees , and the sudden sight of European-style buildings made him reflect that the jungles , fields and villages through which they 'd been moving for the past few hours had remained unchanging throughout many centuries . |
| 4 | They 'd been heading for a festival in Chipping Sodbury , but had been diverted by police . |
| 5 | The fog lifted and the house became filled with a babble of excitable people , few of whom spoke English and who all arrived at once because they 'd been waiting for a clear passage . |
| 6 | They 'd been waiting for a council house for 5 years . |
| 7 | They 've been digging for the chemicals , been tortured and crucified , again and again . |
| 8 | It was found in a garden where they 've been digging for the past six weeks . |
| 9 | Of course not , they 've been elected for a period , they serve to the end of that period , whether they 're made redundant or not , so they go on for the four year term . |
| 10 | They 've been expanding for the last four years . |
| 11 | They 've been calling for an alternative route to the A 421 since World War Two . |
| 12 | Then nine tenths of the rubbish they 've been printing for the last few weeks will be seen for what it is . |
| 13 | They 've been engaged for a year , and it was decided the wedding could take place during August , when there is just routine spraying and pruning to be done , well before the vendange itself , when I can not do without him . ’ |
| 14 | Aggie 's friend knows about him , but , as he said , they ca n't pin anything on to him ; they 've been tryin' for a long time . |
| 15 | They 've been living for the last ten years in an environment where they expect there to be a high level of occult activity in society . |
| 16 | A game of tag ( see below ) may well be just the thing ; but if they 've just come in from the playground and that 's what they 've been doing for the last fifteen minutes , it would be a bit of a waste of time . |
| 17 | They 've been bought for the fact that all over the country there 's all these holes in the wall and people are putting up shelves , building furniture or whatever . |
| 18 | They claim they 've been taken for a ride . |
| 19 | This is a firm and they 've been going for a number of years . |
| 20 | The other thing we do sort of every now and then , and next time will be Easter , we actually have some people in costume who actually reoccupy the house over Waster weekend in this case as as the household of William and they 've been coming for a long time now and they 've got set into the set into their roles quite well . |
| 21 | Fifty miles south-west of the railway line bomb , 13 Platoon of 6 UDR reported in for duty at 0600 ; they had been hoping for a quiet day , in order to catch up on some training . |
| 22 | They had been drinking for the best part of an hour but none were drunk . |
| 23 | You may lose some credibility with the clientele if you demolish him or her with a blitzkrieg attack only to find later that they had been looking for the nearest toilet ! |
| 24 | As Middlemass ( 1979 , p. 443 ) remarks of the Act , the TUC ‘ could hardly have accepted such a reversal of the terms of politics as they had been understood for a generation . ’ |
| 25 | There they had been questioned for a long time , in a way which — Alice could see , watching Bert 's face as he told the tale — had not only impressed but sobered the two . |
| 26 | Oxford 's bluff worked for some time , but when by late 1713 the Jacobites finally realised they had been taken for a ride , they began to look to Bolingbroke for support . |
| 27 | Other European countries said that the new British Government would be positive and co-operative and would put forward proposals for bringing about the completion of the European Community , for which they had been working for the past 40 years . |
| 28 | They had been preparing for a raid themselves the next day ; a big raid ; five galleys of men , gathered in Arivegaig ready to board the ships in the dawn . |
| 29 | They had been admitted for the surgical treatment of the following conditions : group e : benign disease ( comprising patients with benign colorectal tumours ( two ) , plus those with chronic cholecystitis ; group f : inflammatory bowel disease ( all patients had moderately active ulcerative colitis with diffuse involvement of the whole colon , but no evidence at laparotomy or on liver function tests of hepatic damage ) ; group g : colorectal carcinoma . |
| 30 | But although they had been settled for the moment the two great political problems of the next half-century had already been foreshadowed : first , the tensions within the Angevin family ; second , the feudal question of the relationship between lord and vassal , between Capetian and Angevin . |