Example sentences of "they have [been] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | Cos they have n't , they , they 've been asking for |
| 32 | They 've been going for years , they 've been making motor oils , engine oil , it 's called filtrate so that 's the liquid . |
| 33 | This is a firm and they 've been going for a number of years . |
| 34 | They 've been going for twenty years and er there 's er school is very much , I would have put you straight into schools |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | To judge by the clutter of bottles , glasses , and over-filled ashtrays , and the brooding , weary faces , they had been debating for many hours . |
| 39 | Fifty miles south-west of the railway line bomb , 13 Platoon of 6 UDR reported in for duty at 0600 ; they had been hoping for a quiet day , in order to catch up on some training . |
| 40 | Culdub Oakapple opened his mouth to say that acclaim was all very well in its way , but they had been hoping for something a bit more financial than that , but the two Gnomes on each side of him trod on his foot to stop him , because you could not always trust the Oakapple to be tactful . |
| 41 | They had been drinking for the best part of an hour but none were drunk . |
| 42 | They had been flying for 16 hours 12 minutes , had survived two bad storms and had flown over 1,800 miles of ocean . |
| 43 | They may not have found quite the soulmate in each other that they had been looking for , but their relationship has made up for it in other ways . |
| 44 | By searching for flashes repeating at exactly the same rate as the radio pulses , they were able to investigate much fainter pulsations than if they had been looking for pulses occurring at an unknown rate . |
| 45 | You may lose some credibility with the clientele if you demolish him or her with a blitzkrieg attack only to find later that they had been looking for the nearest toilet ! |
| 46 | He realised they had been watching for some minutes before he noticed them . |
| 47 | The broad effect of the Act was to enable societies to offer the extended range of services they had been lobbying for . |
| 48 | They first told police they had been hunting for foxes . |
| 49 | MIT members were shown , in detail , the market which they had been trying for years to service . |
| 50 | THEY had been nit-picking for weeks . |
| 51 | A judge told William Sim and David Todd that they had been playing for high stakes and had to pay the penalty . |
| 52 | Other European countries said that the new British Government would be positive and co-operative and would put forward proposals for bringing about the completion of the European Community , for which they had been working for the past 40 years . |
| 53 | They had been preparing for a raid themselves the next day ; a big raid ; five galleys of men , gathered in Arivegaig ready to board the ships in the dawn . |
| 54 | ‘ I do n't know what he meant , ’ Allen said after they had been walking for some time on the soft turf at the verge of the track . |
| 55 | They had been walking for less than ten minutes when it began to spit . |
| 56 | Gloucestershire clothiers in 1756 " laid the chain four or five yards longer on the bar " and stopped altogether an allowance of two shillings the price which they had been paying for " stopping " ( repairing ) the cloth . |
| 57 | They had been waiting for them , forewarned , rifles at the ready . |
| 58 | For her parents Fran and Les , it was the day they had been waiting for . |
| 59 | The parents were outraged ; the managers had got the opportunity they had been waiting for . |
| 60 | A crowd of eager customers would be awaiting his arrival outside the shops and attack him for the particular colour , size or style of dress they had been waiting for . |