Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local folk have been picking here for generations and always made sure that the beds were not overfished . |
| 2 | His remarks will disappoint many right-wing Tories who have been pushing hard for the Government to give a firm commitment to privatisation . |
| 3 | His remarks will disappoint many right-wing Tories who have been pushing hard for the Government to give a firm commitment to privatisation . |
| 4 | The village is fascinating ; the sort of place the press have been raving about for the past four years when they talk about ‘ unspoilt Turkey ’ . |
| 5 | The oarsmen and women have been training now for over 3 months to reach the peak of stamina and fitness that could bring victory in the longest raft race in the world . |
| 6 | ‘ Businesses which have been clinging on for months are now going over the edge . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ In some cases smoking is as addictive as heroin and it is difficult for people to give up when they have been inhaling deeply for a number of years , ’ he told a news conference at the Royal Society in London . |
| 8 | The final " Dawn " sequence then has the effect both of a reprise , closing the musical form , and of an ironic comment on the human tragedy which , when it is taken out of the public arena into the privacy of Grimes 's mind , actually passes out of the consciousness and memory of those who , only a few hours before , have been clamouring loudest for its execution . |
| 9 | The Cavaliers and Roundheads have been stocking up for another season , re-enacting the English Civil War . |
| 10 | But in the past year German authorities withdrew approval for certain components which Cameron and some other hot-air balloon manufacturers have been using worldwide for the past 20 years . |
| 11 | So far as a family we have been living here for about 6/7 years . |
| 12 | They have been living here for seven years but now they are being inundated by refuse . |
| 13 | As most people in South Africa know , they have been living apart for some while — ostensibly on security grounds . |
| 14 | The Revenue treat the separation as likely to be permanent if the parties have been living apart for one year ( Pinson on Revenue Law , 17th edn , para 38 – 04 ) . |
| 15 | I have started divorce proceedings , as we have been living apart for the last two months , but now he is pleading with me to take him back . |
| 16 | I have started divorce proceedings , as we have been living apart for the last two months , but now he is pleading with me to take him back . |
| 17 | Although they have been living together for years they have had no idea how the other really felt . |
| 18 | But she and Hilda have been living together for years . ’ |
| 19 | Larry and Tina have been living together for a year . |
| 20 | ‘ But it is such a useful box , ’ she said , ‘ I have been looking about for one like it . |
| 21 | To most people the term Gatt means very little but the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade which 108 countries have been wrestling over for the past six years is vital to fair trading throughout the world . |
| 22 | Britain is a late runner in the modern tramway stakes , although such systems have been operating successfully for years in Continental cities . |
| 23 | The milkmen have been watching out for customers who lay their part in the community , are good neighbour , keep a watchful eye on elderly residents , or putting nuts out for the birds . |
| 24 | Colleagues , the Parliament of the European Community and of the United Kingdom have seriously considered the consequences of the spillage of eighty five thousand tons of oil from oil tanker which ran aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands on the fifth of January nineteen ninety three and for a considerable time socialists of the European Parliament have been complaining incessantly for greater safety at sea . |
| 25 | Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel have been touring seriously for the last three years , having played to over a million people in a stint of two hundred and eighty-five concerts . |
| 26 | Some fear reprisals if they did so , although tourists have been coming here for years to fish for trout and salmon . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ They have been coming here for the past six years . ’ |
| 28 | Citalia customers have been coming here for over 30 years and find simple accommodation and furnishings — fresh and spotlessly kept . |
| 29 | ‘ I have been coming here for nine years and have a feel for the heart of the city and this song says it all . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Since the late Sixties , ’ says Richard , ‘ the women have become more active and have been standing up for themselves , as is only right , but men have become more passive . |