Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] his [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ellis denied he was a ‘ pimp ’ and had no idea the youngster may have been using his premises for her work . |
| 2 | ‘ Sir , we have been seeking his permission for a long time ; he will not give it . |
| 3 | RIGHT : Chief teacher Kenny Roberts has been scaring his pupils for years with his killer look . |
| 4 | " 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | He 's been running his shop for the past 30 years , selling everything from garters to saddles ! |
| 9 | Thus it was that his greatest hurdle to date had been asking his lordship for a job . |
| 10 | Intelligence Agency , if he had been twiddling his thumbs for a week , he might just have been a little determined himself . |
| 11 | Rostov stopped , aware that he had been indulging his capacity for mental arithmetic for easily twice that period of time . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Seventy-five year old Marcel Callow has been practising his art for more than fifty years . |