Example sentences of "he [verb] [been] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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1 | It is clear that he has been speaking for some time . |
2 | He has been trying for three years and he said today : ‘ Maybe it is because , God knows , I 've had some leg problems and I just can not climb those steps that easily , ’ he joked . |
3 | The thing is , he has been using for such a long time . |
4 | Although he has been looking for the little creep to beat him up for having steered him wrong , he realises that it is better to be with someone , even someone like Ratso , than to be alone . |
5 | He has been looking for pollen , the other standby of people who study ancient plants . |
6 | He has been writing for some time , starting with horror , and has more recently turned to the psychological thriller . |
7 | ‘ Well , he has been caddying for Harley in Europe , and he did win one tournament and finished equal second in the other . |
8 | It was his first medal in the competition , which he has been entering for five years — his previous best placing was ninth in 1990 . |
9 | ‘ He has been calling for a … ’ he glanced importantly at his notebook ‘ … |
10 | Thus , a Keeper of Italian Painting would have responsibility for the Italian drawings , thereby not only linking their administration and scholarly maintenance but also bringing drawing into the direct relationship with painting which Clifford says he has been advocating for many years . |
11 | The trouble with the right hon. Gentleman is that he has been searching for a way to do nothing about this problem . |
12 | When Ellcock announced his retirement from first-class cricket at the age of 216 after Middlesex 's pre-season tour to Portugal , he was finally admitting defeat in a struggle to overcome back problems he has been fighting for much of his 10-year career . |
13 | Mr Boris Yeltsin , the president of Russia , may have won the battle , but he has not yet won the war he has been fighting for more than half a year with the Congress of People 's Deputies . |
14 | An iconoclast , Engel may find the job sedate after the hurly-burly of the general election , which he has been covering for his newspaper . |
15 | A survey of the career of Robert Ryman , the American artist noted for the white paintings which he has been making for nearly forty years , is the most significant exhibition of contemporary art to be taking place in London this spring . |
16 | Bowie has already made a name for himself as an actor in a string of top movies , including The Hunger and The Man Who Fell To Earth , but this is the TV break he has been waiting for . |
17 | He has been waiting for the right offer for some time after turning down an approach from Italian club Pisa several seasons ago . |
18 | I feel that he has been waiting for me to get home so he can demonstrate this talent . |
19 | He has been waiting for his allowance since first putting in a claim for the new benefit on April 24 , more than six months ago . |
20 | By the exhausted mechanical sound of it he has been sobbing for a long time . |
21 | He will himself present new data on the cohort of doctors he has been studying for the past 40 years , while his colleagues will review current knowledge on some of the many other topics that he has studied — including the effects on health of oral contraceptives , the parts played by radiation and by asbestos in various cancers , and patterns and trends in mortality . |
22 | Although he has had his feet under the desk only since January , he has been preparing for the job since last summer by meeting researchers and officials , visiting institutes abroad and drawing up an initial draft of his plans . |
23 | No individual can sell or receive commission on investment business , unless he has been working for that same Company for at least five continuous years . |
24 | Like Costner , David , 40 , has had to guard Whitney from hordes of obsessed fans in the four years he has been working for her . |
25 | In a conventional world , the Chancellor would simply roll his forecasts forward as he has been doing for the past two years now . |
26 | And he had to go and train somewhere down south , but he 's got a he , apparently he 'd been trying for a year and he 's got to Accrington . |
27 | It was in the second of the rooms behind a damp stack of spare mattresses that he found what he 'd been hoping for . |
28 | He 'd been hoping for windows , and a view over the bay or the town . |
29 | He 'd been looking for that for ages . |
30 | And he would ask a few questions , say he 'd been looking for a few hours . |