Example sentences of "[adv] been [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He arrived in the West Country after a long train journey from his Cleveland home to admit that the Fedora , ever-present symbol of Crystal Palace 's 1976 FA Cup run , has long since been auctioned off for £1,500 to charity . |
| 2 | I was sorry for Jennifer but they had only been going out for a month or so , and not terribly seriously . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ It was as if they had all been locked up for three days the way they rushed in , ’ said a security man who saw the 8.30am rush . |
| 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 | While individual players have rightly been singled out for special mention , the very considerable success of Canada 's World Cup campaign was based on a concerted team effort . |
| 7 | That claim has not been borne out for today 's designs , but such contracts can not easily be broken . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | About the year 1737 , were found in St Margaret 's church-yard , Westminster , in a dry gravelly soil , at the depth of about 18 feet , or less , which had not been broken up for above fifty years before , three entire fir coffins ; the two largest clampt together with iron , as boxes sometimes are . |
| 10 | At present about 85% of foreign aid is earmarked by Congress for specific purposes in selected countries : unlucky countries that have not been singled out for earmarked money are vulnerable to savage cuts . |
| 11 | Elderly people have not been singled out for special consideration either , but for quite a different reason : their needs are broadly the same as those of younger adults , and specialist mental health services for elderly people are now developing all over the country as a direct response to the enormous growth in the numbers of people with dementia . |
| 12 | From the survey , it would seem that many bureaux which own the microfilm system find many uses for it within the bureau when it has not been taken out for an outreach advice session ; it is used for training purposes in order to demonstrate access to and use of information in CAB advice work and it is also used for giving talks to outside groups . |
| 13 | Sotheby 's will be hoping that their clients ' wallets have not been laid up for the winter together with their yachts . |
| 14 | But she had insisted , and although the room was warm , and the kitchen stove had already been made up for the night , I had gone — yet it was a strange experience to me , and rather a frightening one , to have been persuaded by someone near to me into doing even so small a thing I felt to be hazardous . ) |
| 15 | McKoy , the home town favourite , had already been called up for one false start — and it seemed certain that he would be disqualified after appearing to have another flyer second time around . |
| 16 | McKoy , the home town favourite , had already been called up for one false start — and it seemed certain that he would be disqualified after appearing to have another flyer second time around . |
| 17 | McKoy , the hometown favourite , had already been called up for one false start — and it seemed certain that he would be disqualified after appearing to have another flyer second time around . |
| 18 | McKoy , having already been called back for one false start , would have been disqualified for a second offence — but he took full advantage of his head-start to pip Jackson for the gold . |
| 19 | In general these texts give the impression that where interpretative principles had already been worked out for legacies , trusts followed them ; and where they had not , much the same principles were adopted for both institutions . |
| 20 | So you get things in there that have already been worked out for you so you do n't have to erm So minus three . |
| 21 | has already been signed up for Crediton Rugby Club . |
| 22 | A Working Party has already been set up for this purpose and will have met by the time this issue of ‘ Contact ’ is published and mailed to registered Members of Convocation . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I know , it 's just been made up for her is it not ? |
| 26 | I 'd just been turned down for yet another job , hardly any money left — desperate , I was , and out comes your grandfather , asks me what 's wrong . ’ |
| 27 | When Menelik founded Addis Ababa in 1889 the countryside had been forested with juniper and wild olive , but these had soon been cut down for firewood and building material , whereupon Menelik announced that he was going to move his capital for the third time . |
| 28 | It was the same kind as he had once been kept in for so long . |
| 29 | The plaintiffs were the informers against the keepers of the disorderly house who had first pleaded guilty and then later been called up for judgment and sentence . |
| 30 | Also , £192,000-worth of preference dividends have also been rolled up for future payment . |