Example sentences of "has [be] [v-ing] [pron] for some " in BNC.

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1 Platt said : ‘ It has been niggling me for some time and , although it is nothing serious , it has been decided to sort it out sooner rather than later . ’
2 ‘ My organisation has been monitoring it for some time now . ’
3 IBM Corp has been doing it for some time , and now Wordperfect Corp is doing it too — applying for patents on their software rather than relying copyright law : reason is that , as the Wall Street Journal explains , a patent can provide a company with exclusive use of its patented programs for a fixed number of years , even if another company develops the idea independently ; copyright , which is created as soon as an idea is expressed in an original way , protects only the expression of the idea , not the idea itself , and it does n't confer exclusive use if someone else develops the same software independently ; downside is that getting a patent costs big — in both time and money — and once it expires , the technology it describes is free for all .
4 For I appear to be going round in circles in answer to a question which has been worrying me for some time .
5 Something else about the chimney-breast , I realize , has been worrying me for some time now .
6 Charlton confessed : ‘ This one has been troubling me for some time .
7 I WOULD like to post a question that has been troubling me for some time .
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