Example sentences of "[vb base] [been] [verb] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Something I 've been wanting to do for quite some time . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been trying to go for the last half-hour , ’ he whispered , ‘ but you wo n't let go of my neck ! ’ |
| 3 | I 've been trying to sleep for the last half-hour , and I ca n't . |
| 4 | You 've been trying to over-compensate for Eddie 's death for far too long . ’ |
| 5 | Mummy said we were going to spend next Christmas there — it 's a thing they 've been meaning to do for ages . ’ |
| 6 | As I 've started writing to ya now , I might as well ask you some stuff that I 've been dying to ask for ages . |
| 7 | Fashanu said : ‘ It 's a trapped sciatic nerve and I 've been told to rest for about three weeks . |
| 8 | we 've been told to prepare for frost tonight |
| 9 | ‘ We 've been waiting to move for a long time , and we need the money to build the new house . ’ |
| 10 | Although they were perfectly competent people and good at their jobs , they were never going to become part of the new culture which we have been trying to design for the Storehouse group . |
| 11 | It is for this reason that most doctors will not generally accept that couples have a fertility problem until they have been trying to conceive for at the very least a year . |
| 12 | This has a shuffling joss-sticky booga-booga spook beat and a strange haircut ; this is the record that Pop Will Eat Itself have been trying to make for the past 24 months , the grinning idiot love-child of Mr Desmond Drugmusic and Mrs Winnie Indiewhine brought up in a radical lesbian commune in Vancouver , Canada and fed on a diet of black pudding and Ecstasy . |
| 13 | It may just be the book you have been trying to find for years ! |
| 14 | The walks have been arranged to cater for all age groups , with a few designed for those with limited walking ability , and some have been planned to link with bus routes . |
| 15 | NAME Solicitors have been instructed to act for you in claiming damages to compensate you for your injury . |
| 16 | How many welfare benefits have been cut and how many freezes have been imposed to pay for taxation cuts ? |
| 17 | The data shown in the tables have been weighted to allow for the 50 Tory marginals ' over-representation in the total sample . |
| 18 | A number of mechanisms have been implicated to account for the adverse effect of thiazide diuretics on lipid metabolism , which include reduced lipoprotein lipase activity secondary to the decrease in insulin action ( Grimm et al , 1981 ) . |
| 19 | Over the last year ACET 's centres in Dundee , Edinburgh and Glasgow have been asked to care for a growing number needing practical help to stay at home . |
| 20 | Three firms of Mechanical Engineers have been asked to tender for the machinery and steelwork under conditions embodied in a Specification of Terms , a copy of which is hereto appended . |
| 21 | In Britain , for example , the evolving structure of the financial markets has been characterised by both processes of deregulation and reregulation : the former , in that barriers which impede competition and choice have been discarded ; and the latter , in the sense that new regulatory measures have been adopted to cater for problems arising from structural changes . |
| 22 | From the ‘ mini ’ , weighing as little as an amoeba or only one hundred-millionth of a kilogram ( unc kg ) to the ‘ supermassive ’ with a mass one thousand million times that of the Sun , they have been invoked to account for a wide range of cosmic phenomena . |
| 23 | Neither Scorton Village Hall , the local cafe nor the local police have been contacted by your organisation and I am puzzled about what arrangements have been made to provide for the arrival of scores of riders . |
| 24 | By way of example , Figure 7 shows a system that I have been helping to develop for some ten years now ( Smith and Rothman , 1980 ) . |
| 25 | Many health authorities have been refusing to pay for treatment , arguing that divers should take out decompression insurance . |
| 26 | It is therefore not surprising that many variants of the interaction between stellar winds and molecular clouds have been explored to account for the differences from one H-H object to another . |
| 27 | The highly infectious disease can spread rapidly when unprotected dogs come into contact with those infected , frequently these are strays which have been left to fenmd for themselves . |
| 28 | Residential workers have been left to care for troubled young people just as professional interest in residential communities was declining . |
| 29 | He has only expressed what a lot of other people have been starting to fear for a long time , that unless the commercial manipulators in tennis are careful , they could cook the golden goose . |
| 30 | — The supergroup Six of the Best is so popular at Seaham 's Westlea Social Club that they have been booked to appear for three nights as part of the club 's 39th birthday celebrations on June 12 , 13 and 14 . |