Example sentences of "[vb base] been [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been looking for a pair of doctor martins ca n't find any . |
| 2 | I 've been saving for a long time with Alma |
| 3 | This includes women who 've been trying for a test tube baby , have a history of pelvic inflammatory disease or sexually transmitted diseases , have suffered previous ectopic pregnancy , or surgery on their tubes , and those who 've had infertility problems . |
| 4 | like if you ever work in a children 's ward you can always tell the children that 've been hospitalised for a great length of time cos you can do anything with them |
| 5 | I 've been pushing for a long time but erm down here ? |
| 6 | They 've been engaged for a year , and it was decided the wedding could take place during August , when there is just routine spraying and pruning to be done , well before the vendange itself , when I can not do without him . ’ |
| 7 | Aggie 's friend knows about him , but , as he said , they ca n't pin anything on to him ; they 've been tryin' for a long time . |
| 8 | Of course not , they 've been elected for a period , they serve to the end of that period , whether they 're made redundant or not , so they go on for the four year term . |
| 9 | ‘ Dr Williams said , ‘ You 've been spoiling for a fight , now you 've got it ’ ’ . |
| 10 | It 's one of the delightful , I 've been recruiting for a long time and it 's it 's one of those erm delightful things to be able to say to people on the phone when they tell me they 're fifty or fifty four to say that 's not a problem . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been walking for a week . ’ |
| 12 | This is a firm and they 've been going for a number of years . |
| 13 | I 've been working for a company that constructs oil rigs and my job involved a lot of moving around . ’ |
| 14 | The other thing we do sort of every now and then , and next time will be Easter , we actually have some people in costume who actually reoccupy the house over Waster weekend in this case as as the household of William and they 've been coming for a long time now and they 've got set into the set into their roles quite well . |
| 15 | Because we 've been talking for a while so had time for it to evaporate . |
| 16 | I 'm sending you a document I 've been keeping for a friend . |
| 17 | ‘ In the letter , Tristram said ‘ I 'm sending you a document I 've been keeping for a friend ’ . |
| 18 | It shows what we 've been saying for a long time , how fragile the markets in this recycling are , and I still stick to what I 've thought all along , that marketing comes first and making the product comes second . |
| 19 | ‘ I feel I 've been taken for a fool . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ It 's not a pleasant feeling to find out you 've been taken for a ride by someone you trusted . ’ |
| 21 | They claim they 've been taken for a ride . |
| 22 | " Actually I think I 'm rather hungry — I 've been longing for a sandwich . |
| 23 | ‘ It will be the third time I 've been measured for a blazer — but I missed out on the last two ( matches ) , ’ Lane added . |
| 24 | I 've been lurking for a couple of months now and I had a couple thoughts : |
| 25 | Let us assume that agents have been flirting for a while with the use of the adaptive expectations mechanism but that , in the light of the persistent , systematic errors which this mechanism entails , they quickly abandon it . |
| 26 | The woman , who is married and lives in Formby , Sefton , said : ‘ I have been trying for a child for 19 years . |
| 27 | Because these are so individually made , they 're rather like instruments which have been devised for a specific individual , and so to criticise them for details of design is hardly fair . |
| 28 | You and your wife have been separated for a continuous two-year period , and you both agree to the divorce . |
| 29 | Wildlife groups such as the Worldwide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) have been pushing for a ban on fishing , but have been strongly opposed by the fishing industry . |
| 30 | Syrian forces , Lebanese troops , and militiamen have been poised for a week for an attack to seize the palace . |