Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It endorsed British industry 's achievements under the policies that we have been pursuing for the past 12 years , urged us to continue and build upon them in future and condemned utterly the sort of policies still advocated by the Labour party , which is stuck in a mind-set of the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 2 | I did not tell him that his imitation of the French was far more like what I had been seeing for the past year . |
| 3 | The opposition , a diverse and mostly respectable group of people who have been clamouring for a bit of say in the new Kuwait , did not get even a token position . |
| 4 | Nobody left the queue : they were n't going to lose their place , they 'd been queueing for an hour . |
| 5 | The gallery ‘ gelbe MUSIK ’ has been catering for the specialists and the curious for ten years and celebrates its anniversary this spring . |
| 6 | Mr Lindsey said that , from 5 January , S&P were offering a variable Tessa paying an initial 7.5% , against the fixed rate version at 5.875% , which is slightly higher than the average that S&P , as a group , has been forecasting for the financial year beginning in April 1993 . |
| 7 | Second , the fall in unemployment adds something to the theory that the economy has in fact been recovering for a good deal longer than generally realised . |
| 8 | They have n't noticed the so-called economic boom Chile 's been enjoying for the last twenty years . |
| 9 | " It 's been raining for a week . " |
| 10 | From the statement " It has been raining for an hour in Chicago " , for example , we are able to infer , using our knowledge of the real world , that the streets of Chicago are wet . |
| 11 | Dictating condolences to the mother of a murdered husband whom you 've been cuckolding for the last three years would take more than his limited social vocabulary . |
| 12 | But it 's been hanging for the l particular local plan to receive more specific impetu done this exercise properly . |
| 13 | I 've been farming for the last 70 years and never seen anything like it . ’ |
| 14 | Dozens of street musicians have been competing for the title of Britain 's best busker . |
| 15 | Brewers have been competing for the title of Best British Beer at the industry 's own version of the Oscars . |
| 16 | Farmworkers have been competing for the title of Britain 's best ploughman , and a place in the world finals in New Zealand . |
| 17 | The sightseers on the banks of the river , who , sensing something afoot , had been gathering for a few hours , dodged about , seeking a view between bushes . |
| 18 | You 've all got friends and relations in er other jobs and they 've all been struggling for the last two or three years have n't they ? |
| 19 | Wait until your baby has been walking for a few weeks before taking her for the first shoe fitting , as toes are crucial in gripping the floor while learning to toddle . |
| 20 | Benjamin , who had been walking for a month , found himself less welcome in his mother 's room and followed Ruth around the house like a pet lamb . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've been walking for a week . ’ |
| 22 | She has been walking for an hour a day for more than a year , but very slowly . |
| 23 | I 've been lurking for a couple of months now and I had a couple thoughts : |
| 24 | Newley and I have been bidding for the same things for years . ’ |
| 25 | Sighing , Tim 's father said the family knew the country had been praying for the 12-year-old . |
| 26 | As an amateur jockey Pip has had eight National hunt wins this season and had been challenging for the Ladies Championship . |
| 27 | Although they have only been trading for the last ten years , they continue the tradition of using a water powered mill which started in the 1800s . |
| 28 | He has already been stripped of all his posts , but hardliners had been pressing for a public trial on criminal charges , though this looks unlikely . |
| 29 | The engineering unions have been pressing for a 35-hour working week , but the deal at NEI — a subsidiary of Rolls-Royce — would satisfy their claim for a two-hour reduction in the working week . |
| 30 | The Finnish government had hitherto been pressing for a change in the plans , to incorporate a special section allowing passage for rigs over 65 metres high . |