Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that was just a hope he 'd been tossing at me for a couple of years without any interest from me . |
| 2 | I 've been listening to it for a while . |
| 3 | ‘ My dear , your real mother has been looking after you for the past twenty years , ’ said Miss Rose sharply . |
| 4 | Erm I have n't been bothered with it for a couple of months now Doctor , and |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been waiting for you for the past three hours , pacing the corridors , wearing out the carpet . |
| 6 | We must , surely , eventually get to recovery , but we have been waiting for it for a long time . |
| 7 | I always seem to get them at dawn , it 's something to do with the stuffiness of this room after I 've been locked in it for a night . |
| 8 | ‘ She 's been staying with us for a few days . ’ |
| 9 | If your employee has been employed by you for a continuous period of at least 26 weeks into the qualifying week , regardless of the number of hours worked , she is eligible for lower rate SMP . |
| 10 | Alternatively , if she has been employed by you for a continuous period of at least five calendar years into the qualifying week for 8 hours or more each week , then she is also eligible . |
| 11 | ‘ So what have you been doing with yourself for the last five years ? ’ he asked , leaning back in his chair and looking quizzically at her . |
| 12 | Her glance rested on him only for a matter of seconds , yet his face could not have registered more in her mind had she been staring at him for an hour . |
| 13 | Riven blinked , and realised he had been staring at nothing for a long minute . |
| 14 | I 've been staring at it for the past hour , waiting for it to start twitching around like a fat little worm on a fishing hook . |
| 15 | In October 1869 he wrote to Rohde : a whole lot of aesthetic problems and answers have been bubbling inside me for the last few years … of course , Wagner is in a very pregnant sense beneficial , especially as , an example incomprehensible on the basis of traditional aesthetics … ; and a few months later he was proclaiming to another correspondent a " marvellously new and changed … |
| 16 | Then Riven asked the question that had been gnawing at him for the last day : ‘ What about Murtach ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Sara Lee 's been playing with us for a while ; it was Scott Litt ( REM producer ) who recommended her , and I love the way she plays bass . |
| 18 | ‘ But you 've only been talking to them for a little while ! ’ said Angalo . |
| 19 | Had n't been bothering with them for a while , now . |
| 20 | Mr Davidson 's father , Robert Snr , said Mrs Holmes had been working for him for the last eight years . |
| 21 | Wew 've been working on it for a long time , polticals issues are nothing to do with us , we 're a commercial company |