Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [adv prt] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | To date it is a subtle but important change of mood that , with luck , will grow stronger over the winter — allowing spring to bring those green shoots of recovery that the Treasury and the Chancellor have been banging on about for the last two years . |
| 2 | Now he is churning out line with a 15lb breaking strain and it is proving so popular that he has now got rid of the old banger he had been driving around in for years and bought his first executive saloon . |
| 3 | Cotte ( pp. 71 – 2 ) distinguishes two main senses of let , the first of which is described as " the non-intervention of an agent in an action which has been initiated independently of him/her and has been going on already for a certain time " , and can be illustrated by : ( 214 ) He would n't even dance with her at Gavin 's party . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought I 'd ring and congratulate you on managing at last to see what some of us have been going on about for all these years . ’ |
| 5 | Now the District Council have taken a lot of money off this town , over the market stalls now , for a number of years , and I believe if they 're going to do a scheme like this which has been going on now for over eight years , it should be done all in one go . |
| 6 | After all , evolution has been going on now for about four billion years as far as we know and there are n't very many long-lived organisms . |
| 7 | Batty , speaking on Leeds clubcall , said yesterday : ‘ The speculation has been going on now for a couple of years . |
| 8 | it 's been going on now for what ? |
| 9 | We had been going out together for four years ; he was more like a brother than a boyfriend . |
| 10 | Well , that 's been dragging on now for three or four weeks erm . |
| 11 | They 've been fighting out there for bloody years . ’ |
| 12 | I just love the way that kid must 've been standing out there for what , fifteen minutes ? |