Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [adv prt] for [art] while " in BNC.

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1 I raised with David Ingram at my JAR a matter which I 've been mulling over for a while , arising from my role as Welfare Officer .
2 ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now .
3 ‘ It 's been laid up for a while with a problem in the starting mechanism , but a friend is now completing a repair job for me , and we hope to be up and running again soon , ’ explained Gordon , pictured with the vehicle 's log-book .
4 And Ben like when we were sort of there Ben sort of we 'd been sitting around for a while and he said it 's very embarrassing to have to ask this but you 're staying the night and stuff erm are you two a couple or are you just friends so no , just friends but it 's alright , if you do n't have any spare rooms we 'll be perfectly happy to sleep together , do n't worry .
5 ‘ Yeah , it 's a collection of tunes that I 've been working on for a while .
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