Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have been pursuing proposals for some time . |
| 2 | I had been seeing Jessica for twelve months before she admitted to herself that her lover would never come back . |
| 3 | Heseltine 's campaign team , having been canvassing backbenchers for several weeks , had already developed a considerable momentum . |
| 4 | I have been producing guidebooks for fifteen years and I have never thought of that . |
| 5 | It was a process which had been gathering momentum for some time and has continued since . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , a working party report urging positive action on equal opportunities by the Scottish Law Society has been gathering dust for more than a year . |
| 7 | These schools have been using microcomputers for three years and have had substantial teacher training , provision of materials and other support services from the ILEA . |
| 8 | Second , almost three-quarters of these interviewees had been using heroin for two years or less by the start of the prevalence study period . |
| 9 | Born in 1908 , Maitre Lelièpvre has been drawing horses for most of his life , and sold his first painting at the age of eight . |
| 10 | In closing the hospitals the health authority has been purchasing care for those people that let you care for them in a variety of settings and support . |
| 11 | I 've been on this circuit for six months now , but I 've been driving cabs for twenty-four years . |
| 12 | It is a work that could have been written by a man who 'd been writing operas for twenty years and it introduced me to Ben 's remarkable sense of theatre . |
| 13 | In the meantime , all four major further education teacher training centres in England — Huddersfield and Wolverhampton Polytechnics , Bolton Institute of Higher Education , and Garnett College have been developing proposals for pre-service courses leading to a BEd . |
| 14 | ‘ Edinvar has been serving tenants for 20 years and Link has been a landlord for nearly 30 years , so we both have a long history of putting tenants first . ’ |
| 15 | The base has been training airmen for more than half a century . |
| 16 | A woman who knew her told the court the girl had been abusing solvents for some time . |
| 17 | Tenants in a house at Brockworth near Gloucester , who say they 've been paying rent for six months , barracaded themselves in when they heard they were being evicted because their landlord had defaulted on his mortgage . |
| 18 | Even if you have been paying premiums for many years , you will rarely get a proportion of its maturity value . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been selling patchwork for some time now , ’ she went on . |
| 20 | Now I I 've been selling hairpieces for twenty three years so I 'm probably better in a better position than anybody here to explain the emotions of men who 're losing their hair . |
| 21 | The sturdily independent high tech sector had naught for the comfort of either major party in the run-up to today 's by-election in Newbury , Berkshire when the big guns from party headquarters showed up for photocalls during the build-up : Labour chose Vodafone Group Plc and tried to commiserate about the recession , only to be told that business had been going gangbusters for several months , the Tories went looking for green shoots at Micro Focus Plc , only to be told that the UK market was flat on its back , and that it was only foreign sales that were keeping the old Coboller busy . |
| 22 | Farmer Rob Keene has been growing pumpkins for five years , and he 's seen sales rocket . |
| 23 | Doreen Copas had to be reminded that she had been teaching Medau for all of 25 years by her Herts and Cambs colleagues and class members ; they presented her with a generous gift of garden tokens on the occasion of the Westhampstead Rally . |
| 24 | Good god bank clerks have been wearing uniforms for these last three four five years . |
| 25 | Six patients are still alive and have been undergoing tratment for 5.5–24 months ( median 15 months ) . |
| 26 | For Ken Stanier , who 's been harvesting apples for 40 years , it 's good news . |
| 27 | The force was regarded as a necessary guarantee to deter incursions by the Iraqi army into the zone of northern Iraq where coalition troops had from April until July been providing protection for Iraqi Kurds [ see pp. 38127-28 ; 38211 ; 38308 ] . |
| 28 | One day , after he had been having lessons for some time , his father was called away by the boss : there was a horse in the ditch : it had gone to sleep on the edge and had rolled upside down into the ditch and could n't get out . |
| 29 | no not we , you I 'm asking Mr you have been doing estimates for four or five years have you ? |
| 30 | Indeed , we 've been running courses for several years now , both for primary and secondary level , to help those teachers who are particularly enthusiastic , and also to form a sort of resource for them . |