Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv] [adj] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ People seem to think we are getting rid of all the books but the only ones we have done away with are those which had been hidden away unused for many years . ’ |
| 2 | The ability to understand the mistake made by another individual and the willingness to make the effort to correct it have been considered too much for non-human animals , because of the implication of intentionality of behaviour , and of a kind of consciousness . |
| 3 | Though the big R100 BMW has been designed as much for cross-country work as for the road , the wheels bucked and skidded in the grey waterlogged soil as Trent fought the handlebars , weaving between scrub bush and clumps of hagara grass . |
| 4 | SCO 's development partner DEC will have to soldier on alone , if it has not been doing just that for some time ( UX No 364 ) , if it intends to put OSF/1-for-ACE on its MIPS R4000 machines . |
| 5 | By 1951 the Art Galleries had been doing just that for 50 years . |
| 6 | She 'd been thinking just that for most of the long , aching , sleepless night . |
| 7 | If a teenager has been feeling acutely depressed for some time , then it may only take a trigger such as exams , to tip her over the edge ( suicide is the third most common cause of death among the under 25s , and the peak months are April to July ) . |