Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [adv prt] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It 's been going on for long enough and I think something should be done about it , ’ he added . |
| 32 | This phenomenon has been going on for long enough in Shetland waters for it to be given a local name of ‘ fuglicaa ’ , which is derived from old Norse ‘ fugl ’ meaning bird and ‘ caa ’ to drive ( as in sheep ) — literally a ‘ bird-drive ’ . |
| 33 | Although these are ‘ laboratory ’ specimens , they 've been kicking around for about six months and I 'd expect them to be detected quickly . |
| 34 | well needs a I think one of the things we discussed in the branch action group meeting is actually , were n't quite sure what the cos we 'd been sending out for quite less than ten of the branches because to do something to them which was mm apparently lots of them in but erm well they keep disappearing so that the what we 've been talking about is to try and get some points erm health and safety station within the branch , which actually just has all this stuff for it . |
| 35 | His been crossed off for ever , . |
| 36 | because I 've I 've not got time now , been gabbing on for so much . |
| 37 | That claim has not been borne out for today 's designs , but such contracts can not easily be broken . |
| 38 | An inaugural meeting of the Merseyside Music Industry Association has been set up for tomorrow night . |
| 39 | The tank has been set up for about 5–6 weeks and houses five Tiger Barbs and five Serpae Tetra . |
| 40 | Erm and that 's really been coming on for about five years . |
| 41 | Despite this the symptom of urgency is invariably improved and all 81 patients with ulcerative colitis who have been followed up for more than six months state that they can defer defaecation for more than two hours . |
| 42 | It was a decision that she knew she had been putting off for far too long . |
| 43 | But he has been right in saying that urgent measures have been put off for too long . |
| 44 | Over by the birch trees , Mervyn Finch had started to play his squeezebox to Vera ‘ Got All the Things There ’ Loomis , and a few of the adults were dancing the old dances that have been passed down for nearly 200 years . |
| 45 | Shropshire Youth has been left out for too many years to fend for itself . |
| 46 | It was the same kind as he had once been kept in for so long . |
| 47 | The beginnings of this idea emerge well from a passage in The Lord of the Rings which has been singled out for especially ferocious criticism : the parting of Treebeard from Celeborn and Galadriel in The Return of the King , p. 259 : |
| 48 | The Home Office spokesman said he could not comment on reports that the men had been beaten up for allegedly ‘ grassing ’ on other prisoners in the wing . |
| 49 | Boeing had the facilities to test aircraft structures to destruction , and they also had some old Boeing 707/300–400 series that had been traded in for more modern aircraft from which stabilisers could be taken . |
| 50 | The sales force is a problem they 've been working on for awhile and could be in a position to snap off in a few months . |
| 51 | Terry had written out a very detailed plan for a farm-school project for juvenile offenders that he had been working on for almost two years . |