Example sentences of "[adv] [been] [v-ing] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And Friends of the Earth it 's only relatively new it 's only been going properly for what two years . |
| 3 | I was sorry for Jennifer but they had only been going out for a month or so , and not terribly seriously . |
| 4 | We 've all been trucking along for so long on the back of the post-war consensus ( more growth , more production , more consumption , more jobs , more energy , more roads , more hospitals , more rubbish , etc ) , that most people are understandably reluctant to get off the treadmill — even though they can see it 's falling to pieces . |
| 5 | It had all been going on for years , Chertro said , and apparently earlier technicians had been doing the same for a long time before . |
| 6 | They had all been sitting quietly for some time , waiting . |
| 7 | Christopher had obviously been going there for some years . |
| 8 | He had not been searching specially for them so that , as he wrote in his journal , " It is sufficient to disturb the composure of an entomologist 's mind to look forward to the future dimensions of a complete catalogue " . |
| 9 | However months later he was able to start talking about his wife and the fact that they had not been getting on for some time and had begun divorce proceedings . |
| 10 | The store had not been trading profitably for some time indicating there simply is not enough money circulating in the area to sustain it . |
| 11 | ‘ The horses have not been running well for three or four months , ’ he said . |
| 12 | ‘ We have been disappointed , ’ says the review , ‘ that issues have not been coming forward for a ruling before positions have been taken . |
| 13 | But did you know the sharp-suited musician from New Orleans has already been tinkling away for more than 22 years ! |
| 14 | But did you know the sharp-suited musician from New Orleans has already been tinkling away for more than 22 years ! |
| 15 | These steps into a wider world were part of a great process of expansion by western Europe that had already been going on for decades . |
| 16 | Army bomb disposal experts arrived at Dorton late this afternoon to join the search of the trackside that had already been going on for four and a half hours . |
| 17 | My head was throbbing and the shoulder was beginning to ache from the kicking , which had probably been going on for some time before I came round . |
| 18 | Erm and that 's really been coming on for about five years . |
| 19 | Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us . |
| 20 | If she had n't been looking out for the signpost , she could easily have driven past without even realising it was there . |
| 21 | Antonia made soft-porn movie The Pieman — about a one-legged hooker who has a romp with a pizza delivery man — ‘ because she had n't been working much for nearly two years and had no income , ’ said Amanda . |
| 22 | Always considered a soft touch for your face , these products have currently been coming in for more scrutiny . |
| 23 | If anything , I tend to believe that it will make you unhappy : either immediately unhappy , as you are impaled by incompatibility , or unhappy later , when the woodworm has quietly been gnawing away for years and the bishop 's throne collapses . |