Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The final " Dawn " sequence then has the effect both of a reprise , closing the musical form , and of an ironic comment on the human tragedy which , when it is taken out of the public arena into the privacy of Grimes 's mind , actually passes out of the consciousness and memory of those who , only a few hours before , have been clamouring loudest for its execution . |
| 2 | The expediter — ‘ Joy ’ — was the envoy of a client of mine : the Construction and Development Corporation of the Philippines ( CDCP ) , a local company my bank had been courting unsuccessfully for years . |
| 3 | I 've been using both for over a year now and the best I 've been able to get is a ratio of 1.8 to 1 . |
| 4 | But in the past year German authorities withdrew approval for certain components which Cameron and some other hot-air balloon manufacturers have been using worldwide for the past 20 years . |
| 5 | I 'm 32 and have been climbing seriously for the last 18 years , which helped me get accepted . |
| 6 | She went humming upstairs to clean the bathroom , while Winnie turned over in her mind a plan which had been lurking there for some time . |
| 7 | We 've been cultivating both for centuries . |
| 8 | The store had not been trading profitably for some time indicating there simply is not enough money circulating in the area to sustain it . |
| 9 | Since then , various voluntary groups throughout the campus , the UK and abroad have come forward with names and addresses of active alumni , some of whom have been networking enthusiastically for many years outwith the official organisation of either the Graduates Association of the University . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Australian mining companies have been pressing hard for the upgrade for the past 18 months but , ironically , demand for Landsat data in the last few months has dropped by 60 per cent . |
| 12 | The horse fair has been happening here for decades and it used to be a time of celebration when the market square at Stow was filled by a Fun fair aswell , but after a flare up last year the Fair 's owners wo n't be coming back . |
| 13 | The horse fair has been happening here for decades and it used to be a time of celebration when the market square at Stow was filled by a Fun fair aswell , but after a flare up last year the Fair 's owners wo n't be coming back . |
| 14 | He knew this was something that had been happening slowly for a long time , something that had to happen or he was lost , but it was such a brittle structure they were building , one word would topple it , shatter it , one word would be enough to jerk them back into that ordinary daylight where nothing could be changed or righted , nothing could unravel . |
| 15 | Proteon 's announcement that it is splitting its business into two divisions ( one for adaptor boards and wiring centres ; the other for internetworking and intelligent hub systems ) is in line with what has been happening internally for some time , says Swan . |
| 16 | He 's been looking elsewhere for years . ’ |
| 17 | Mr Fitzpatrick had been looking forward for months to the holiday with his son , who attended business meetings in the US capital . |
| 18 | Mr Fitzpatrick had been looking forward for months to a holiday in the States with his son . |
| 19 | Yes , the hindquarter double-muscled trait is important and is the breed 's main attribute , but we 've been looking too for stock with good overall conformation , with loin and fleshing that we feel is vital to any successful terminal sire breed . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been looking everywhere for you . ’ |
| 21 | I 've been looking everywhere for you . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been looking everywhere for you , ’ Helen snapped . |
| 23 | Darling , I 've been looking everywhere for you ! ’ |
| 24 | Where 've you been Ray , I 've been looking everywhere for you ? |
| 25 | Mr Devi Lal , for example , who had been lobbying hard for the home ministry to add to his deputy premiership , had to content himself with the agriculture ministry . |
| 26 | Obviously Stirling had been lobbying hard for new blood . |
| 27 | James Beggs , has been lobbying hard for money to build a fifth Shuttle-orbiter , and the academy 's assessment could help loosen the purse strings at the white House . |
| 28 | Cheshire 's chemical industry has been lobbying hard for cuts in electricity pricing . |
| 29 | Local folk have been picking here for generations and always made sure that the beds were not overfished . |
| 30 | Britain is a late runner in the modern tramway stakes , although such systems have been operating successfully for years in Continental cities . |