Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] the [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the meeting I have been pursuing the proposal for moving the Clerk Street bus stops and also examining the complaints about the Scotmid stops . |
| 2 | At the time of his controversial dismissal from Manchester United , the News Of The World revealed that a team of private detectives , hired by a group of businessmen closely linked to some of the club 's directors , had been pursuing The Doc for nearly two years . |
| 3 | After the discovery that the Tramways Department had effectively been subsidising the Illuminations for years , a completely new Illuminations Department was set up in 1936 under Freddie Field . |
| 4 | I 've been using the Strats for four or five years ; it 's nice to have that more defined sound , and more variety of tone than the Ibanez and Gibsons I used to use . |
| 5 | I have been using the playhouse for about ten years now and going back to the point that someone made earlier about sex well about erm racism sexism is does n't that count as censorship . |
| 6 | The PACE Day Centre near Aylesbury has been using the technique for the last 3 years , but it could all be over in the next couple of days . |
| 7 | Over 90 per cent of the heroin users at each agency had been using the drug for between one month and five years . |
| 8 | BP Exploration has been using the process for three years and is finding it popular and productive . |
| 9 | He says that they have been using the shaft for dumping substances . |
| 10 | Before the Swinbrook farmer had finished talking to them , Boz leaped to his feet to say , angrily , ‘ We Romanies have been using the forest for hundreds of years . |
| 11 | I knew there were other bags of cubes in the kitchen refrigerator , so , feeling that I had been walking the train for a lifetime , I went along through the dining room to fetch some . |
| 12 | Richard , who started work at the University in 1969 as assistant cook in the halls of residence , has been Assistant Catering Manager since 1973 , based at the Revis Barber and Dennis Bellamy Halls , where his deputy , head cook Ian Wade has been ruling the kitchens for 24 years . |
| 13 | NeXT Computer Inc has been banging the drum for its forthcoming NeXTstep 486 object-oriented operating environment for 80486-based personal computers , reporting that Chrysler Financial , a wholly owned subsidiary of Chrysler Corp , will buy 2,500 copies of NeXTstep 486 . |
| 14 | Microsoft Corp has been banging the drum for its forthcoming Windows New Technology operating system in Europe and says it has won ‘ broad support ’ for it from ICL Plc , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA and Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG . |
| 15 | He 's been driving the go-kart for 18 months so he 's really quite experienced . |
| 16 | The PBAA has been lobbying the government for public television for over ten years and is looking forward to contributing to this inquiry process . |
| 17 | Self taught , Albert , who is a relative of George Barron , of BBC TV 's Beechgrove Garden fame , has been tending the gardens for 16 years and has been a consistent winner in the gardens competition over the years . |
| 18 | But its time-saving qualities — up to 30 minutes each day for each teacher — attracted the St George 's School for Boys in Southampton , which has been piloting the system for two years . |
| 19 | Police investigating the death of a woman , whose body was discovered in a car pulled from the River Severn , have been searching the riverbank for clues . |
| 20 | Tawell 's second piece of bad luck was when the tenacious Dr Champney , who had been searching the countryside for the dark-robed perpetrator of the crime , noticed him boarding the train . |
| 21 | The police have been searching the site for clues , and talking to eye witnesses . |
| 22 | Mrs Taylor said she had been urging the Government for months to make public a report by Mr Ponsford confirming the morale problems . |
| 23 | Officials in Washington had been sounding the warning for over four years , noting that Guatemala is a trans-shipment point for Colombian cocaine and heroin heading north to the United States and Mexico . |
| 24 | Tonight the man who 's been leading the fight for pensioners in Oxford said there was also much at state for those still working for the former Maxwell companies . |
| 25 | Norwegian scientists who have been testing the seas for several years have yet to detect any significant radioactive contaminating of fish , but they have not yet tested the water near the dumping sites . |
| 26 | HP is known to have been casing the industry for new directions — a process witnessed by the winding down of its New Wave interface efforts — and is now thought to be closing in for a piece of Taligent Inc ( UX No 417 ) , the Apple Computer Inc/IBM Corp joint venture on object-oriented operating system technology . |
| 27 | The move follows the £1.4m out-of-court settlement agreed in July with the Tunstall Group , which had been suing the firm for damages for the losses it had incurred in purchasing Sound Diffusion shares ( see ACCOUNTANCY , August , p 15 ) . |
| 28 | The Council 's Audit Department and Thames Valley police have been investigating the fraud for the past fortnight . |
| 29 | He 's been feeding the birds for twenty years , and he still finds it exciting . |
| 30 | Following the review of the British Library 's acquisition and retention policies , published in 1989 , a Working Group , including the National Library of Scotland , has been considering the scope for co-ordinating collection policies among the legal deposit libraries . |