Example sentences of "been [verb] at [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt this was a chance for me to put to rest one way or another this thing that had been nagging at me for such a long time . ’ |
| 2 | But that was just a hope he 'd been tossing at me for a couple of years without any interest from me . |
| 3 | Her glance rested on him only for a matter of seconds , yet his face could not have registered more in her mind had she been staring at him for an hour . |
| 4 | Aware that she had been staring at him for rather a long time , she blinked and asked hastily , ‘ Did you sort out your business ? ’ |
| 5 | Riven blinked , and realised he had been staring at nothing for a long minute . |
| 6 | I 've been staring at it for the past hour , waiting for it to start twitching around like a fat little worm on a fishing hook . |
| 7 | Then Riven asked the question that had been gnawing at him for the last day : ‘ What about Murtach ? ’ |
| 8 | It 's been screaming at me for days , but I just could n't see it . |
| 9 | It becomes clear after one has been working at something for several weeks , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that one is not going to achieve what one had hoped for . |