Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv prt] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can see that some more lines have been filled in automatically for you . |
| 2 | The requests have always been turned down usually for financial reasons . |
| 3 | So , I have told him before because he has been told off before for talking you know at the back |
| 4 | Cotte ( pp. 71 – 2 ) distinguishes two main senses of let , the first of which is described as " the non-intervention of an agent in an action which has been initiated independently of him/her and has been going on already for a certain time " , and can be illustrated by : ( 214 ) He would n't even dance with her at Gavin 's party . |
| 5 | Now the District Council have taken a lot of money off this town , over the market stalls now , for a number of years , and I believe if they 're going to do a scheme like this which has been going on now for over eight years , it should be done all in one go . |
| 6 | After all , evolution has been going on now for about four billion years as far as we know and there are n't very many long-lived organisms . |
| 7 | Batty , speaking on Leeds clubcall , said yesterday : ‘ The speculation has been going on now for a couple of years . |
| 8 | it 's been going on now for what ? |
| 9 | We had been going out together for four years ; he was more like a brother than a boyfriend . |
| 10 | A team of Education Ministers will have been locked up together for days or even weeks on end to thrash out the details of the Bill . |
| 11 | As part of the Initiative , datasets derived from the Census are being held at Manchester Computing Centre and the Census Dissemination Unit has been set up initially for the period from 1992 to 1997 to support them ; the Census Microdata Unit has also been set up in the Econometrics department of Manchester University . |
| 12 | All recent committees of inquiry , and some in the past , have been set up specifically for the task in hand , but between 1944 and 1967 many of the inquiries were undertaken by the Central Advisory Councils for Education ( CACE ) for England and for Wales , bodies set up under the 1944 Education Act to advise ministers on important educational issues . |
| 13 | The pupils thought he 'd been brought in specially for their benefit and turned up the next week with more surrealistic pieces . |
| 14 | In divertissements , although it is possible that they reflected the spectacle in some way when dances were characterized , large-scale key-changes seem to have been brought in mainly for the sake of musical variety . |
| 15 | Well , that 's been dragging on now for three or four weeks erm . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , they have been cooped up here for some time , ’ Ana pointed out . |
| 17 | It 's these unexploded shells , quite a number littered about and we have n't been allowed down there for so long , it 's all barbed wire , I believe . |
| 18 | TANK GIRL is now going the way of all great cult heroes , having been fought over hard for a film by Hollywood . |
| 19 | specialist , and ( 2 ) the conceptual relationship between movement and drama had never been worked out sufficiently for the practical relationship to become clear . |
| 20 | They 've been fighting out there for bloody years . ’ |
| 21 | It had been taken along here for 30 fathoms and stopped at a fault beyond which the vein had been lost . |
| 22 | I just love the way that kid must 've been standing out there for what , fifteen minutes ? |
| 23 | Social class is not the only speaker variable which presents problems of definition and interpretation , but it has been singled out here for detailed discussion for two reasons . |