Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tank has an undergravel filter and a internal filter and has been running problem-free for about four months . |
| 2 | People living near a rubbish tip which has been burning unchecked for six weeks fear their health is at risk . |
| 3 | A privately owned half-timbered cottage ( mostly 16th-century ) with pantiled roof and porches , it has been standing empty for years |
| 4 | My husband has been practising dying for years . |
| 5 | Jill is 60 , and , since she retired early from her job as a dinner lady , has been caring full-time for her 90-year-old bedridden mother and for her husband who has Parkinson 's disease . |
| 6 | The farmers from this village own land in the Buffer Zone that has been lying fallow for fourteen years , but which is now being opened up . |
| 7 | ‘ But it 's a lot of money for something which has been lying dead for twelve years . ’ |
| 8 | We 'd been playing safe for our own survival , and scores of heterosexuals went unchallenged in their continued acts of heterosexism . |
| 9 | I was in Italy , it was early morning , and I 'd been lying awake for about three hours . |
| 10 | They 'd been sitting still for too long . |
| 11 | She 'd been sitting motionless for over an hour , conducting an inner battle over the need to alert the board of Chester 's about Guy 's perfidy , with the stubborn hope that somehow she might be wrong keeping her glued to the spot , torn with indecision … |
| 12 | I heard myself saying the line that had been waiting ready for months : ‘ I think the time has come when you must go in . ’ |
| 13 | It had been lying empty for months , he said . |
| 14 | Re-rigging the ship for an Antarctic voyage inside of a week , after she had been lying idle for over a year , was quite impossible . |
| 15 | The shop had been standing empty for some time , and needed a great deal of work . |
| 16 | One family tea-time , when Auntie had been sitting silent for some time , she said : " It 's lucky there 's never anyone left in those offices at night . " |
| 17 | A minute earlier he had been feeling sorry for the men who were still out on house-to-house questioning . |
| 18 | He had been feeling cold for some time . |
| 19 | It transpired that he had been sleeping rough for weeks and that his last known address was a Salvation Army hostel 100 miles away . |
| 20 | Lots of inquiries about Foster and Allen they 're coming on the programme later they 've just got number one for the first time with their new video with their new single I do n't know I 'm not quite sure we 'll find out when they get here well they 've just got number one for the first time and they 've been trying hard for a long time . |
| 21 | I guess I 've been getting upset for too long when it was n't even necessary . |
| 22 | The Jarvis ' from Frimley Stables at Aston Upthorpe have been getting ready for their big day . |
| 23 | It 's the first time they 've been to Britain , even though some have been teaching English for twenty years ; they 're staying at the Oxford House School of English , and will also visit the Oxford University Press as the trip has been made possible by an East German publishing house . |
| 24 | It 's been going ongoing for eighteen months two years change it |
| 25 | ‘ It 's been standing empty for a couple of years . |