Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [v-ing] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Probyn is being questioned about the death of his wife , Tanya , who was 28 , and who 'd been missing for six days before her body was found in her car in the River Severn . |
| 2 | She 'd been missing for 24 hours , her disappearance reported by her boyfriend , himself arrested and questioned by police , but then released . |
| 3 | this chap was here last week he bought this pine table up , got his key , and he 'd been working for three years in Norway |
| 4 | If he 'd been cycling for fourteen hours , let's say fifteen hours . |
| 5 | If he 'd been cycling for fifteen hours , you you have a look and tell me how far he would have gone . |
| 6 | He 'd been driving for sixty years , you 've never had an accident . |
| 7 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |
| 8 | Indeed , I recall being present at a formal state banquet in Malawi when the Life President , His Excellency the very elderly Dr Hastings Banda , had been speaking for 45 minutes proposing the toast and had still only reached 1947 . |
| 9 | One student looking for employment had finished his grant entitlement in the first quarter of 1984 , and had been job-seeking for six months ( Table 7.2 ) . |
| 10 | Eve had n't known that Birdie Mac who ran the sweet shop had a man from Ballylee who had been calling for fifteen years , but she would n't leave her old mother and the man from Ballylee would n't come to Knockglen . |
| 11 | By the time he and Norman strode out to try to win the 1986 British Open , Bender had been caddying for eighteen years , having picked up his first serious bag when he was 18 years old . |
| 12 | These solutions , which involved old technology , simply applied to the ocean freighter what railroads and truckers had been using for 30 years . |
| 13 | The group had been meeting for two years , and it was mainly a consciousness-raising group , although , with only about twenty groups in London as a whole , some of them , the ‘ housewives ’ , the women who worked part-time were also able to help run the voluntary rota in the central London office , the Women 's Liberation Workshop . |
| 14 | If a seller had been ringing for fifteen or twenty minutes before the phone was even answered , he would naturally resent this ultimate insult . |
| 15 | I took a drink from one of the twenty-four plastic gallon containers which I had been collecting for two years . |
| 16 | After his exit from Monday 's semi-finals , Black revealed that he had been struggling for five years with a ‘ bio-mechanical ’ problem which affects his body balance and leads to other injuries . |
| 17 | Hart , a big man with a beard , had been teaching for nineteen years . |
| 18 | Friends say she never recovered from hearing Gilbey , who she had been dating for two years , tell Diana he loved her — 53 times in the 23 minute call . |
| 19 | Jo and Ryan had been dating for six months and had progressed some way beyond parking now . |
| 20 | Essentially the case involved a youth leader of the Red Cross , who admitted joining the Red Cross to bring him closer to young girls , whom he had been abusing for thirty years . |
| 21 | Intending to be a priest of the Church of England , I lost my faith , slowly but painfully , and at the end of the summer left Oxford and the house in Norham Gardens in which I had been living for two years and in which , by a curious turn of fortune , my office now is . |
| 22 | Roddy Lou Thai was not pleased at all to be questioned by two representatives of the repressive Imperialist Government , under whose chauvinistic wing he had been living for four years . |
| 23 | Lisa had been smoking for twenty years and felt unable to stop for more than a day . |
| 24 | They had been flying for 16 hours 12 minutes , had survived two bad storms and had flown over 1,800 miles of ocean . |
| 25 | She had been flying for twelve years , had studied with her father who flew Concorde as a senior British Airways captain , and had soloed on her seventeenth birthday . |
| 26 | Thirty nine infants ( 18% ) in group A and 44 ( 24% ) in group B had been vomiting for three weeks or more before admission . |
| 27 | This was Peter Lorre 's first film but he had been acting for ten years in a career which had begun with his running away from home at the age of 15 and which bore many similarities to the careers of other American and European actors who had arrived in Hollywood already . |
| 28 | The travellers had been driving for six hours , and as the meter in the cab had been showing a steady sixty miles an hour , they must have covered over three hundred and fifty miles . |
| 29 | In the end , Clara , exasperated beyond endurance , brought up once more the possibility of cremation ( not daring to mention , even in her own mind , which had not quite forsaken filial tenderness , the possibility of the once-praised dust cart ) and Mrs Maugham , square , immutable , said quite astonishingly for her , and invoking sanctions she had been deriding for thirty years , that ashes must go to ashes and dust to dust . |
| 30 | Take Benjamin Gribble for instance , on the settling day in March 1847 of a contract which had been running for 5 months : |