Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The young Robert Zimmerman had changed his name to Bob Dylan and had been wailing away for a couple of years or so , and Nicholson was among the first of his fans who listened to and studied the words of his anti-establishment anthems , ‘ The Times , They Are A-Changin ’ and his ‘ Mr Tambourine Man ’ which was a taunting , haunting song with a very hard edge that white middle-class youth took to be an ode to a dope dealer , which Dylan denied . |
| 2 | Pamela and he had been living together for a while and , until recently , Jimmy had been close to a happiness previously denied him ; both as lover and as surrogate father . |
| 3 | Larry and Tina have been living together for a year . |
| 4 | Is the Minister aware that , by 9 January , Bir Zeit university will have been closed continuously for a period of four years and that a generation of young Palestinians will have been denied the right to higher education , which is surely one of the basic fundamental human rights ? |
| 5 | We 've been humping away for a whole two and a half pages . |
| 6 | An evening had been set aside for a get-together of the Branch 's top 50 clients to promote Special Savings Accounts . |
| 7 | However , money has been set aside for a refurbishment programme across the group 's 30 hotels . |
| 8 | The last day had been set aside for a hunting trip , a full day out in the field , putting into practice , hopefully , all we had learned . |
| 9 | If savings have been set aside for a funeral , and would now pay for one at current prices , that money , invested at the best rate of interest , may be enough to pay for the funeral when it occurs . |
| 10 | Secondary education had been provided only for a minority . |
| 11 | His wife , Shirley , believed we 'd been brought together for a reason and , after a while , she reckoned my sight would be healed . |
| 12 | ‘ We have been disappointed , ’ says the review , ‘ that issues have not been coming forward for a ruling before positions have been taken . |
| 13 | ‘ In some cases smoking is as addictive as heroin and it is difficult for people to give up when they have been inhaling deeply for a number of years , ’ he told a news conference at the Royal Society in London . |
| 14 | We have been arguing here for a view of the state in which governments are managing not only class and social relations but also individuals . |
| 15 | Many arguments have been put forward for a family perspective or policy statements to counter the apparently poor ‘ fit ’ between much existing social policy and significant social change ( Henwood and Wicks , 1988 ) . |
| 16 | He 's only been playing seriously for a couple of years , ’ said Luke , hardly flinching as a car cut right in front of him , missing them by millimetres . |
| 17 | What about the last we did yesterday actually designers and training , it 's quite a , it 's quite a struggle that had a long day , been sitting here for a couple of hours I du n no it seems longer and there you are and you 're actually struggling |
| 18 | There was a table beside it and a pipe lay on top as if it had been left just for a moment . |
| 19 | Englishmen had been settling overseas for a century and a half but their colonies had been inhabited by people who , apart from the slaves who got no choice in the matter , had no particular difficulty in committing themselves to being loyal to King George : Englishmen , Scotsmen , Irishmen , or Germans would accept the King without question , and the Dutch of New York and the Acadians of Nova Scotia were almost the only people who had ever been asked to make a serious change of allegiance , which had been harder for the Acadians because of religious differences . |
| 20 | This pattern has been changing ; there is a tendency now for girls to keep their babies , and over the last year or so girls have been sent there for a variety of other reasons , but essentially so that they can be assessed on their ability to care for their child . |
| 21 | ever been garrotted just for a treat ? |
| 22 | The first and third shows , ( dis ) parities and countervail , profile with work of two groups of women who have been working collectively for a number of years . |