Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toleration as wide-ranging as this would not have been acceptable in England , where hostility to Roman Catholicism had been building up for seventy years since Mary Tudor 's attempt to wipe out Protestantism . |
| 2 | The British Standard BS 6652 for child resistance is granted to specific combinations of bottle and cap and has been given only for some makes of closures on BS 1679 bottles , which are the ones we use in this hospital . |
| 3 | Hardly a fish has been caught here for three weeks but the birds had had roach and dace up to 8 oz . |
| 4 | Since then , various voluntary groups throughout the campus , the UK and abroad have come forward with names and addresses of active alumni , some of whom have been networking enthusiastically for many years outwith the official organisation of either the Graduates Association of the University . |
| 5 | When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England . |
| 6 | The main service on offer is the Schwab One International account which has been designed especially for international investors . |
| 7 | Similar studies have been carried out for other countries , although the methods vary , reflecting the differences in availability of data and in fiscal systems . |
| 8 | All the frustration and anger that had been bottled up for 16 years were suddenly out . |
| 9 | The export department of Stoddard Carpets has been operating successfully for 26 years . |
| 10 | Bert Millichip , the FA chairman , claimed that the decision to seed England in Cagliari had been made purely for footballing reasons . |
| 11 | Bert Millichip , the FA chairman , claimed that the decision to seed England in Cagliari had been made purely for footballing reasons . |
| 12 | I see you 've got no carpets down anywhere the door 's not painted and he said you 've been living here for two years ! |
| 13 | They have been living here for seven years but now they are being inundated by refuse . |
| 14 | Mrs Probyn 's husband has told police that the pair , who 've been living apart for several months , had a row . |
| 15 | Following township rumours that the Mandelas had been living apart for some weeks , the Sowetan newspaper said Mrs Mandela continued to live in the mansion she had built in a better part of Soweto but Mr Mandela had moved into a well-guarded home in Johannesburg 's affluent northern suburbs . |
| 16 | Anyway , they know each other pretty well , having been living together for two years now . |
| 17 | They 'd been living together for many years . |
| 18 | He had been trembling violently for several hours but now no sound came from the place where he lay . |
| 19 | All my work , whether original or adapted , has been written more for personal reasons than to fit any perceived format or genre . |
| 20 | Searle was not the only person at this time to conclude that since the Lefevre Gallery had told Minton ‘ Moons are out ’ , he had been searching round for new solutions which visits abroad solved only temporarily . |
| 21 | Although this has been argued over for fifty years , the size of this ancient catastrophe now seems incontrovertible . |
| 22 | Mrs Nicolson had n't been seen out for four months now . |
| 23 | They 've been hunting here for 150 years . |
| 24 | What happened , people should have been paying in for ten years were suddenly taking out for ten years and these huge enormous sums and obviously the surplus which our members had helped to build up er and provide through the years and we 've got seventy-five year olds on you know , extremely low pensions hardly making ends meet , and there were vast sums of money being given away to the employees , that the employers took a contribution holiday and so they were n't paying into the fund either you know , and all the profits of B T as you all know were soaring and partially because of the use of the pension funds and this has greatly obviously erm upset our members and we feel very strongly about it . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been waiting here for two hours , Fagin , ’ said the stranger . |
| 26 | I 've been waiting here for ten minutes = I 'm waiting here ten minutes |
| 27 | Plans have been drawn up for commercial offices and a smaller centre for church events . |
| 28 | When she was found they reckoned she 'd been lying there for three hours . |
| 29 | I 've been going downhill for several days now . |
| 30 | ‘ They realised just what the people in Northern Ireland have been going through for 25 years . |