Example sentences of "been [verb] for [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Initially , she had been ostracised in some quarters , and on several occasions when she had arranged a soiree , rival parties had been arranged for the same night . |
| 2 | The sightseers on the banks of the river , who , sensing something afoot , had been gathering for a few hours , dodged about , seeking a view between bushes . |
| 3 | Wait until your baby has been walking for a few weeks before taking her for the first shoe fitting , as toes are crucial in gripping the floor while learning to toddle . |
| 4 | Newley and I have been bidding for the same things for years . ’ |
| 5 | Two seats out of three have been won for no more than 42.5% of the votes , and two out of four for only 24.2% . |
| 6 | Three Samoans who played in the World Cup — Tagaloa , Bunce and Steve Bachop — have just been picked for the All Black trials . |
| 7 | Vibrational excitation has only been reported for a few simple molecules in the gas phase , as shown in Fig. 5.8 , and vibrational structure may also be seen on some bands arising from electronic transitions . |
| 8 | To this extent we could say that the cultural materialists re-assert a form of reflection theory , where history has become a mirror in which contemporary political priorities have been substituted for the former certain ground of Marxist analysis . |
| 9 | It was unlikely that murder had been committed for a few pounds , but one could never be sure . |
| 10 | It 's been happening for a few days , but I 've only just realised what it is … |
| 11 | And he would ask a few questions , say he 'd been looking for a few hours . |
| 12 | Jake fingered the paperweight idly as he continued , ‘ It had probably been developing for a few days . |
| 13 | But he stressed that no formal approach had been made for the former football ground . |
| 14 | Thornton had been pushing for the same sort of readership , and the two men had another thing in common — they wanted action . |
| 15 | Listen , Bill — the boy 's been training for a few weeks , and it 's time he did some work . |
| 16 | Choose an open , sunny site where brassicas have n't been grown for a few years . |
| 17 | Funny that they 'd both been heading for the same place , though . |
| 18 | Where employees are concerned , a minimum of 2,000 has been used for the same reason . |
| 19 | Here 's another new model from guy who has been riding for the same big-time company for literally eons . |
| 20 | My ‘ heavenly brother ’ was not a Sasse boy , but from the primary school in nearby Mutengene mission where I had been staying for a few days . |
| 21 | Inexplicably , two compulsory first-year lectures had been scheduled for the same day and time , and the error had only just been noticed . |
| 22 | Armenia 's nuclear power station was closed in February 1989 because of earthquake fears , while construction of nuclear plants in Krasnodar and the Crimea had been terminated for the same reason , after popular protests and construction of several reactors of the Chernobyl type had also been halted . |
| 23 | Yes , this is what big shops , particularly in America , have now been doing for a few years , in that the till that takes your order as it were is also a computer terminal on line to large computers somewhere else , and every time your tin of baked bins is checked out by the girl on the till , it is adjusting the stocks on its large computer and saying , ‘ Hey , we 're going to run out of baked beans at approximately ten o'clock tomorrow morning . |
| 24 | Even more important was that the jungle habitat had been protected for the same reason . |
| 25 | The Hagen Biolife filter in our office tank has been running for a few weeks now , and one or two little problems have shown up . |
| 26 | Carole Rue , BT 's network services development manager , said : ‘ Although the trial has only been running for a few weeks we 're most encouraged by the initial response from our customers . |
| 27 | He was to have joined me this week , but his train met with an accident , so he 's been detained for a few days with an injured ankle . |
| 28 | ‘ You sound as if I 'd been gone for a few hours and forgot to leave you a note . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ The plant has been neglected for a few years so I thought I 'd give it some plant food and water and to my astonishment this was the result , ’ said Margaret . |
| 30 | The government 's Countryside Commission argued that the licence should only have been renewed for a few years during a thorough review of military land requirements . |