Example sentences of "been [verb] [pers pn] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She explained that Lazaris came through to her via a medium who went into a trance , and had been helping her for the previous eight years . |
| 2 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 3 | He said , ‘ No , I have statements , I have witnesses and we 've been surveying you for the last four months . ’ |
| 4 | That was it until handover on Monday , which she hoped would be enough time to shake off the cold that had been dogging her for the last couple of days . |
| 5 | Liz Ablewhite was offered , and graciously accepted , the Alethea Ward Scholarship in Natural Sciences ( an annual college award specifically designated by Dr Ward , 1853–1935 , for female students of medicine from the County of Yorkshire , her own home county ) , the goal towards which her mother had been directing her for the past ten years . |
| 6 | The BBC 's film review programme is 21 years old today — and Barry , 59 , has been presenting it for the last 20 . |
| 7 | It 's when you 've been flying them for a few days consecutively that it ( pardon the pun ) dawns on them that they could escape and find out what 's over the next hill . |
| 8 | Oh I 've been doing it for a long time have n't I ? |
| 9 | that is something that 'd happened all of a sudden , of about four throughout the cou , well three at the time throughout the country have suddenly gone like it within about a month or so of each other , and they 've never had any trouble before , but I was talking to Brian and he said that 's a load of cobblers , he says it 's been doing it for a long time and there 's loads of them doing it . |
| 10 | Living is very important to me as I 've been doing it for a fair few years now . |
| 11 | He 's been hiding me for the last couple of days . ’ |
| 12 | But I 've not been taking them for the last week . |
| 13 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
| 14 | ‘ It must have been bothering you for a few days . ’ |
| 15 | Then he saw a wonderfully pretty girl who had obviously been watching him for a long time . |
| 16 | He had been watching her for a long time before she realised he was awake . |
| 17 | If , however , he believes in the right to a free and independent trade union , let him grant that right to the employees at the Government communications headquarters , who have been denied it for the past eight years . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been chewing them for the past twenty minutes ! ’ |
| 19 | ( ‘ We seem to have been crowning her for a whole year . |