Example sentences of "[vb -s] been [v-ing] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tank has an undergravel filter and a internal filter and has been running problem-free for about four months . |
| 2 | People living near a rubbish tip which has been burning unchecked for six weeks fear their health is at risk . |
| 3 | A privately owned half-timbered cottage ( mostly 16th-century ) with pantiled roof and porches , it has been standing empty for years |
| 4 | My husband has been practising dying for years . |
| 5 | Jill is 60 , and , since she retired early from her job as a dinner lady , has been caring full-time for her 90-year-old bedridden mother and for her husband who has Parkinson 's disease . |
| 6 | The farmers from this village own land in the Buffer Zone that has been lying fallow for fourteen years , but which is now being opened up . |
| 7 | ‘ But it 's a lot of money for something which has been lying dead for twelve years . ’ |
| 8 | It 's been going ongoing for eighteen months two years change it |
| 9 | ‘ It 's been standing empty for a couple of years . |