Example sentences of "they have [been] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | They 've been living for the last ten years in an environment where they expect there to be a high level of occult activity in society . |
| 32 | They 've been made for more recent Carnivals . |
| 33 | They 've been advertising for more than six weeks … at the job centre in the local papers and on the radio . |
| 34 | Yes er erm my instructions are that all persons are accounted for in the premises and er once they 've been accounted for er then it was safe for other officers , i.e the C I D or Superintendent to go to that yes and they would not have been allowed in had I not received instructions that the house was secure and all persons accounted for . |
| 35 | They 've been waiting for it . |
| 36 | It 's the chance they 've been waiting for . |
| 37 | Paul Groombridge says it 's the good news they 've been waiting for . |
| 38 | A game of tag ( see below ) may well be just the thing ; but if they 've just come in from the playground and that 's what they 've been doing for the last fifteen minutes , it would be a bit of a waste of time . |
| 39 | Oxford ca n't grumble they 've been winning for 15 years … its Cambridge 's turn but Oxford will be back on top next year |
| 40 | They 've been bought for what they do . |
| 41 | They 've been bought for the fact that all over the country there 's all these holes in the wall and people are putting up shelves , building furniture or whatever . |
| 42 | They claim they 've been taken for a ride . |
| 43 | Maurice Hope held a similar view , though he favoured social rather than genetic factors : ‘ Black people are natural fighters ; they 've been fighting for survival and they 've been in that condition all their lives . |
| 44 | The women who do , I suspect , may never see those first grey hairs at all ; they 've been highlighting for so long that the colour of their hair has always been a matter of choice . |
| 45 | A lot of people started handing in pellet guns and antique muzzle-loaders they 've been keeping for years without a licence . |
| 46 | They 've been revolting for years under the surface and then some thing happens that make it possible course the continued revolutions have gone on through the world and because they 've seen the success of a revolution in Russia although we did n't know the full facts of it in the West , it was , it did establish a huge area in the wake of a revolution . |
| 47 | All except , I can see , you know when they 've been asking for this money ? |
| 48 | Cos they have n't , they , they 've been asking for |
| 49 | They 've been going for years , they 've been making motor oils , engine oil , it 's called filtrate so that 's the liquid . |
| 50 | This is a firm and they 've been going for a number of years . |
| 51 | They 've been going for twenty years and er there 's er school is very much , I would have put you straight into schools |
| 52 | The other thing we do sort of every now and then , and next time will be Easter , we actually have some people in costume who actually reoccupy the house over Waster weekend in this case as as the household of William and they 've been coming for a long time now and they 've got set into the set into their roles quite well . |
| 53 | TUBE passenger Jonathan Zito was stabbed to death in front of his brother just after they had been reunited for Christmas . |
| 54 | They posed for photographers at the star-studded show , giving the lie to rumours they had been separated for several weeks . |
| 55 | She was well aware that it would seem thoroughly feeble — if not downright pathetic — to refuse to accompany him to New York simply because they had been separated for almost five years . |
| 56 | Bernard and Laura escaped on to their sailing boat for much of the summer , a yacht they had been enjoying for some years now , and they pottered around Mykonos in Greece . |
| 57 | When they had been seated for some time Titch said : ‘ I suppose you 've heard the news ? ’ |
| 58 | By the time Iran had attacked a Kuwaiti , a Saudi and then a Liberian tanker ( the last of these caught near the principal Saudi terminal at Ras Tanura ) , the GCC states had begun to recognize this sequence — as it was doubtless intended — as a signal to distance themselves from Iraq in the light of the support they had been providing for Baghdad . |
| 59 | Items generated internally would be recorded once they had been authorised for issue . |
| 60 | They had been accepted for admission before the onset of dementia ( most sheltered housing associations would not accept a new tenant who was already showing evidence of dementia ) , but with increasing age in the sheltered housing population cases are likely to occur more frequently . |