Example sentences of "have been [verb] [prep] now " in BNC.
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| 31 | Also , a hotel room would remind her of that first night they had spent together ; what happened then had been repeated by now many times . |
| 32 | Once in the house , he carved himself a slice of meat from an ancient joint , put it on a slice of bread , and settled down at his desk with a sigh of pleasure , preparing to continue work on the Gaelic Dictionary on Historical Principles which he had been occupied with now for nearly forty years . |
| 33 | So maybe another kind of gathering for you — a tea party somewhere nice , maybe even in the Assembly Rooms at the Stockade , they 've been hired before now . |
| 34 | A golf course development threatened the landscape but plans have been withdrawn for now |
| 35 | I would have thought that most things have been tried by now and I would not imagine that there are many other avenues to be followed . |
| 36 | But eventually the arguments all boil down to the fact that it is more economic to harvest the rainforest sustainably than clear-fell it in the idiotic way we have been doing until now , and that this is of immense benefit to us , the human species , because of the maintenance of that genetic diversity which will cure all sorts of dreadful diseases in the future . |