Example sentences of "[adv] been [v-ing] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although fitted with an alarm courtesy of the Venice in Peril Fund , this had not been working for some time . |
| 2 | We had not been going for more than half an hour when the driver of the sick man 's bullock cart came to me and said that all was now well , we need go no further . |
| 3 | I understand that the Government have not been negotiating for that . |
| 4 | The panic buying forced the Moscow city council on May 28 to announce a temporary ban on the sale of food and consumer goods in city shops to anyone unable to produce a Moscow residence permit ( such restrictions had already been operating for many weeks in Leningrad and a number of other cities ) . |
| 5 | If a patent were to be granted to the second business , it could prevent the first from using what it has already been using for some time . |
| 6 | They 've already been walking for several weeks , many carrying their possessions in their school bags . |
| 7 | By the time that came along I had already been playing for some time . |
| 8 | Rumours had already been circulating for some time in the movie world that Madonna , whose big new movie will be Body Of Evidence , was discussing a new film with Sr Almodovar . |
| 9 | What she longed to ask him was : ‘ Have I ever been missing for any time , Steve ? |
| 10 | ‘ He may have also been searching for some of Hopkins 's papers ? ’ |
| 11 | And when you were in suitably softened mood I was going to tell you how this time I 'd found what I 'd really been looking for all my life . ’ |
| 12 | However , the system has now been operating for many years and much good work in the safety field has resulted . |
| 13 | But although it had now been raining for several hours , there was not the least damp or cold either in the deep runs or in the many burrows that they passed . |
| 14 | Oh I 'm gon na start going , I have n't been swimming for that long and I 've been saying off and on oh I must go , I must go , but when it 's so cold outside you do n't feel like coming out with all wet hair and all that |
| 15 | It was as if Chambers bad been waiting for this admission . |