Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this time of day , however , when law and equity have been joined together for over 70 years , principles must be reconsidered in the light of their combined effect . |
| 2 | During recent years , demand has been building up for greatly increased facilities for full-time substitute care . |
| 3 | A further meeting had been pencilled in for today , but ministers emerged after a two-hour meeting with the plans agreed . |
| 4 | Chairman , can I say briefly that the merger and I 'm quite pleased that we 've finally er there is a death knell to this this awful word , it 's been bandied on for far too long , it 's been perhaps the single most controversial issue that has been debated by this authority along with some other mediocre issues and no one here would not admit er to the fact that it has been opposed on such massive scale and even today we 've had a further petition of three hundred and ninety five people opposing er this this this dreadful merger decision that was hanging over the er the the two centres and I 'm pleased that er this this er amendment , this er er erm this petition was brought forward today because it does indicate the continuing support and opposition to er the the kind of things that we should be doing and and those that we should n't . |
| 5 | This partly explains why they 've been struggling on for around six years now , but is no excuse in the current climate for them not gaining some long overdue recognition . |
| 6 | I 've been using both for over a year now and the best I 've been able to get is a ratio of 1.8 to 1 . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , ’ he said , ‘ I 've been let down for tonight . |
| 8 | Its virtue was that it had no neighbours and it had been picked out for just that reason : no-one to ask questions , no-one expecting to start up a friendship . |
| 9 | Bile sampling at the time of endoscopic or percutaneous cholangiography , with subsequent cytological examination , has been carried out for over 20 years . |
| 10 | We had been looking around for about five minutes or so , when a jeep containing two members of the Guardia Civil ( The National Police ) arrived . |
| 11 | Too much emotion has been bottled up for too long and in some firms the performance-reward link is seriously distorted . |
| 12 | Professional counselling is the best way forward for you because your feelings have been bottled up for so long . |
| 13 | So far as a family we have been living here for about 6/7 years . |
| 14 | We 've all been trucking along for so long on the back of the post-war consensus ( more growth , more production , more consumption , more jobs , more energy , more roads , more hospitals , more rubbish , etc ) , that most people are understandably reluctant to get off the treadmill — even though they can see it 's falling to pieces . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I 'd just been turned down for yet another job , hardly any money left — desperate , I was , and out comes your grandfather , asks me what 's wrong . ’ |
| 17 | This seems to have affected the fate of Frederic , Lord Leighton 's ‘ Sibyl ’ , bought-in at £145,000 against an estimate of £180–250,000 at Sotheby 's and previously sold at Christie 's in 1987 for £250,000 ; Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema 's ‘ A Sculptor 's Model ( Venus Esquilina ) ’ bought-in at £150,000 against an estimate of £200–300,000 at Christie 's , consigned by a Japanese corporation but familiar from the front window of a London gallery within very close proximity of Christie 's ; and John Roddam Spencer Stanhope 's lovely ‘ Our Lady of the Water Gate , ’ bought-in at £55,000 against an estimate of £80–120,000 at Christie 's , having previously been offered privately for around £180,000 . |
| 18 | His attention had been drawn away for only five or six seconds and there were surely only half a dozen shops that she could have entered . |
| 19 | It 's been lying up for about a year and a half |
| 20 | By 1988 West Indies were going through what England had been going through for as long as anyone could remember : a period of transition . |
| 21 | The affair had been going on for nearly two years . |
| 22 | Investigations into the activities of this particular smuggling gang had been going on for nearly twelve months prior to the climax of Yashmak and were initiated in Sussex . |
| 23 | I understand that revision of the regulations , which has been going on for sometime , is reaching its final phase . |
| 24 | The search for Louise Butler had been going on for over two days . |
| 25 | Her admirer had already been bound over to keep the peace after being arrested on her doorstep , and his unwelcome attentions had been going on for over six years . |
| 26 | Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us . |
| 27 | Efforts to find a suitable site for the Vintage & Rotary Wing Collection , with workshops in Stoke-on-Trent , have been going on for quite a while , but the reaction has always been negative — we even had the comment that ‘ We do n't want an aircraft scrapyard here ! ’ |
| 28 | I 'm actually concerned that if we , did anybody know about this issue earlier on because I think this has been going on for quite some time erm probably over the last two years and if anyone did know then why did n't they address it before and if anyone did n't know , why not ? |
| 29 | It 's been going on for about seventeen months now and the in chief man at Hill House was rather interested to hear that we 'd not actually had it resolved yet , and asked for the reference numbers and . |
| 30 | Looking back I find it hard to believe that I did n't keep abreast of all the war news ; but the war had been going on for so long that I , like almost every girl of my generation , had lost interest in it . |