Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [pos pn] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | They think I 'm reconciled , but I 've only been biding my time for a chance like this one you 've brought me now . |
| 2 | Trish , who has been representing her country for the last twelve years with such good horses as Manifesto and Michelangelo , only allows her horses to compete on decent surfaces . |
| 3 | ‘ Sir , we have been seeking his permission for a long time ; he will not give it . |
| 4 | The ex-Soviet Union , the world 's second-largest producer , has been selling its gold for what it would fetch , to pay its bills . |
| 5 | " Hanslick and others " had indeed found it difficult to place Wagner 's achievements , and furthermore Wagner 's own explicit interpretation of his ideal had in recent years been shifting in an enigmatic way that impelled his articulate young admirer to offer his own clarification : here was one of those " aesthetic problems " which had been occupying his mind for some time . |
| 6 | Jones responded by reminding everyone that the DOE had been funding his work for nearly three years already , that he had positive results ready to publish , that the DOE funding agent had encouraged him to go ahead and that he was due to speak about them at the Spring Meeting of the American Physical Society in Baltimore during 1–4 May . |
| 7 | When the judge called the jury back this afternoon they 'd been considering their verdict for one and a half days . |
| 8 | Investors have been expecting its publication for the last two weeks but are fearful it will be kept back for the week when Parliament goes into the Christmas recess . |
| 9 | It 's just , he must have felt so out of it , stuck here while all our brave boys have been doing their bit for us . ’ |
| 10 | Along with many others they have all been doing their bit for our Decade of Evangelisation . |
| 11 | Both the interrogators had been doing their job for so long that they no longer thought much about what they were saying . |
| 12 | When she 'd been doing her research for this article she 'd talked to various other people in the City regarding Laura Wyndham 's expertise in her job , and they had all agreed on one thing — she was at the very top of her profession . |
| 13 | He 's been running his shop for the past 30 years , selling everything from garters to saddles ! |
| 14 | She 'd been neglecting her work for the past day and a half . |
| 15 | Thus it was that his greatest hurdle to date had been asking his lordship for a job . |
| 16 | Of course — the other day at the Rose Bowl , when Miss Philimore had been demonstrating her system for dealing with ‘ standing orders ’ . |
| 17 | The Irish in Britain Representation Group led a march from Whittington Park calling for the release of the Birmingham 6 and the Guildford 4 , who have been protesting their innocence for the past 14 years . |
| 18 | Also we 've been arguing our claim for the sparsity factor , in other words , the national reduction of one hundred and sixty one million in ninety-four , ninety-five compared to ninety-three , ninety-four for the sparsity factor . |
| 19 | Dog owners from all over the country have been showing their appreciation for what they claim is the most royal of breeds . |
| 20 | Mr Tavernor has been fighting their case for more than forty years . |
| 21 | With Stamm acting as chief engineer , the San Jose , California start-up has been readying its line for the last two years financed by a $3.5m first-round investment from venture capitalists Institutional Venture Partners , Matrix Partners and Menlo Ventures . |
| 22 | I 've been ringing your number for hours . ’ |
| 23 | If you 've been lightening your hair for years , this is the time to rethink your shade . |
| 24 | Breeze , wedged in a corner of the crowded third-class compartment , cautiously massaged her left arm , which was cramped , and tried to wriggle away from her portly neighbour , whose big fur collar had been tickling her neck for the last half-hour . |
| 25 | She could just as well have been arranging my funeral for all the co-operation I offered her . |
| 26 | Rostov stopped , aware that he had been indulging his capacity for mental arithmetic for easily twice that period of time . |
| 27 | As leader of Germany 's opposition Social Democrats , he should have been rallying his party for battle against a tired , 11-year-old government in a general election in 1994 . |
| 28 | After she had been practising her exercise for about ten days , she had gone out intending to walk to the local post office . |
| 29 | Seventy-five year old Marcel Callow has been practising his art for more than fifty years . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been practising my serve for weeks . |