Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [pos pn] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was amazed to realise that some of them had been using their machines for five years and had no idea of the machines capabilities because all the instructions are written in either English , Spanish or Japanese ; nothing in Thai . |
| 2 | Ellis denied he was a ‘ pimp ’ and had no idea the youngster may have been using his premises for her work . |
| 3 | RIGHT : Chief teacher Kenny Roberts has been scaring his pupils for years with his killer look . |
| 4 | And this will assist the fragmentation around the imagined absoluteness of ethnic differences upon which both the New Right and the ‘ cultural nationalists ’ from the ethnic minorities have been premising their demands for cultural separatism in education ( cf. |
| 5 | Unable to take up residence in the Baabda palace occupied by Gen Aoun , this was where he had been conducting his consultations for the formation of a government of national unity . |
| 6 | Unable to take up residence in the Baabda palace occupied by Gen Aoun , this was where he had been conducting his consultations for the formation of a government of national unity . |
| 7 | Pat had been attending my classes for a long time — years in fact . |
| 8 | Computers would compete with manual labourers , but Western countries had been losing their jobs for years already ( as anyone knows who buys plimsolls in the supermarket and reads the label . ) |
| 9 | Intelligence Agency , if he had been twiddling his thumbs for a week , he might just have been a little determined himself . |
| 10 | Politicians and political parties for some months prior to the announcement of the date of the election had been making their arrangements for manifestoes and candidates . |
| 11 | I 've been racking my brains for what I could have done , then it struck me . |
| 12 | Theorists all over the world had been redoing their sums for nothing . |
| 13 | Despite the contraction in its employment , Britain 's manufacturing industry has been increasing its requirements for factory floorspace . |
| 14 | After two pitches I suffered one of those inexplicable aberrations and instead of following the blatantly curving crack into which we had been cramming our limbs for the last 60ft I launched up an unerringly straight vertical groove above the belay . |