Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv prt] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it maybe , you see I 've had this , this has been hanging around for a month |
| 2 | I raised with David Ingram at my JAR a matter which I 've been mulling over for a while , arising from my role as Welfare Officer . |
| 3 | It proved to be a surprisingly accurate account of what in the event did happen , and is outlined here to illustrate the way in which , in one corner of Oxfordshire , changes which had been argued over for a decade could be effected in a relatively short time . |
| 4 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 5 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 6 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
| 7 | I was sorry for Jennifer but they had only been going out for a month or so , and not terribly seriously . |
| 8 | A twenty year old man has been called in for a chat with an inspector . |
| 9 | Within minutes the car was free , and before I could thank the young farmer I 'd been invited back for a cup of tea and some hot broth . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's been laid up for a while with a problem in the starting mechanism , but a friend is now completing a repair job for me , and we hope to be up and running again soon , ’ explained Gordon , pictured with the vehicle 's log-book . |
| 11 | Hills said : ‘ She has been crying out for a mile , and the way the race was run she has been lucky enough not to have had too hard a race . ’ |
| 12 | This was a house where four IRA men , surrounded by the police , had been holed up for a number of days . |
| 13 | The old Moscow publishers Iskusstvo managed to release just one book last year , and having exhausted its resources , it was forced to suspend publication of the journal Iskusstvo , which has been coming out for a number of decades . |
| 14 | It 's dragging on , it 's been dragging on for a year , but I 'm getting there slowly and I feel a lot more confident than last time . |
| 15 | These 85 patients have been followed up for a total of 583 person-years . |
| 16 | Of seven patients whose percutaneous cholecystolithotomy failed because of residual cystic duct stones , only two were advised to undergo cholecystectomy and the remainder have been followed up for a median of 14 months . |
| 17 | Some of the manuscript has been saved because it had been printed off for a friend to proof-read . |
| 18 | Almost every word has been put in for a purpose and needs to be commented upon . |
| 19 | Because of that the reactors had to undergo a licensing procedure from Nuclear , Now that survey , which they have been carrying out for a number of months now , almost certainly would require that a number of major improvements be made to those reactors , and they just have n't got the money to do that at the moment . |
| 20 | But Thomas has been lined up for a return in Sunday 's FA Cup third round tie at Bolton Wanderers . |
| 21 | And Ben like when we were sort of there Ben sort of we 'd been sitting around for a while and he said it 's very embarrassing to have to ask this but you 're staying the night and stuff erm are you two a couple or are you just friends so no , just friends but it 's alright , if you do n't have any spare rooms we 'll be perfectly happy to sleep together , do n't worry . |
| 22 | In the open intellectual milieu where Catholic exegetes and theologians now move among colleagues of other traditions of faith or of none , the traditional term ‘ hermeneutics ’ ( the art and the principles of interpretation ) has been taken over for a mode of philosophical discussion so technical that its products are usually baffling even to a well-educated reader . |
| 23 | Since the scheme was launched in 1987 690,000 plans have been taken out for a total of almost £1.5 billion . |
| 24 | He said Mrs Mawdsley 's husband phoned him the following evening to say she had seen her doctor and had been signed off for a month . |
| 25 | The house was n't run-down , either , but there were touches here and there betraying the fact 64 that it had n't been lived in for a couple of years ; the windows that were n't shuttered were n't clean , and there were weeds pushing up through the gravel . |
| 26 | But her deep tanned face had been lived in for a fistful of decades . |
| 27 | It 's been shut down for a fortnight , it 's all getting modernized and all that , upgraded . |
| 28 | The deaf children of the Molfetta Deaf School in Trani were proud to have been singled out for a visit by the Princess |
| 29 | As far as I know computers have not yet been brought to bear on the Synoptic Problem which has been tossed around for a century . |
| 30 | ‘ Yeah , it 's a collection of tunes that I 've been working on for a while . |