Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hong Kong has been hanging in suspense for almost a fortnight over if Mr Patten would drop a self-imposed deadline for publication at the end of February so that talks with China could resume . |
| 2 | A sturdily middle-class society does not sit easily atop political immobility ; and , indeed , Taiwan has been experimenting with reform for the past three years . |
| 3 | The aim of this legislation , as the Supreme Court noted , is to facilitate economic development , although it is fair to add that lenders both from within and outside the country have been pressing for change for some time . |
| 4 | Maybe they 'd been meeting in secret for a while . |
| 5 | Though Xorandor resigns himself to his fate , he tells the children a secret : he has not in fact come from Mars at all but is a member of a race that has been living on Earth for millions of years , communicating over vast distances through radio pulses in binary code . |
| 6 | We had been living in Canaan for ten years when Abraham started inviting me to his tent . |
| 7 | The whole community has been living in fear for far too long , menaced equally by both sets of paramilitaries . |
| 8 | Without knowing it I have been living in poverty for the past 14 years . |
| 9 | Eli has been trembling with fear for the ark . |
| 10 | Irene Macaulay has been searching for peace for a long time . |
| 11 | ‘ I want to feel the embrace of my fans , 100,000 of them , and I 'm waiting to face my rivals with confidence , ’ said the 25-year-old , who has been training in Sestriere for the past few weeks . |
| 12 | The station was overflowing with badly wounded who had already been waiting for treatment for several days . |
| 13 | The nursing home to which her husband has her committed after her eccentricity has become dangerous , and from which she and the other residents are eventually ejected to be cared for by an amorphous ‘ community ’ , might have been lying in wait for her from the day she was born . |
| 14 | The scumniks , who had been lying in wait for prey , used stubguns , grenades — then , at close quarters , a chainsword and knives . |
| 15 | The Dolphin , the Bermuda Suite , Club 93 , the Bingo hall , a large swimming pool , a Sports hall , Amusements , these are just some of the few things that are situated at Highfield Holiday Park , Clacton , where my family and I have been going on Holiday for 10 years . |
| 16 | It may be a new experience for you — but students have been going to college for at least two-and-a-half thousand years ! |
| 17 | Cricket in Australia had been declining in popularity for some years , not helped by an abject England team two seasons before , and the excitement that West Indies generated by their enterprising play was unbounded , culminating in a vast ticker-tape send-off when the tour was over . |
| 18 | A group which has been juggling with fire for the past year is staging its first play . |
| 19 | But nor does it matter ; ‘ our club ’ will have been seething with talk for days , and ‘ I ’ am bound to have heard about Stavrogin 's escapade . |
| 20 | A large number of the part-timers have been reporting for duty for the entire twenty years of the Ulster Defence Regiment 's existence . |
| 21 | My dinner companions were two Swiss nurses doing a world tour , and Roger Rasmussen , a pensioner front Queensland who said he had been travelling by train for 16 days non-stop . |
| 22 | Taylor wo n't know until tomorrow whether David Batty of Leeds is fit , while Paul Gascoigne , despite his wonder goal in Seville , has been suffering from 'flu for more than a week . |
| 23 | I 've been coming to conference for the last fifteen years to help build the grand union which we 've got today and I 'm not gon na sit back and watch this carved up , for nobody , for nobody . |
| 24 | Today the control room which has been buzzing with activity for the past fortnight is empty , most travellers have now left the area . |
| 25 | He had been fading from importance for some time , had been replaced as Unionist leader in the Lords by Curzon and was not a minister under Lloyd George . |
| 26 | A few years ago , I heard of a consultant surgeon who had been drinking on duty for 20 years . |
| 27 | Women have been campaigning for equality for a long time . |
| 28 | Mr Goldsworthy and Mr Rachael 's girlfriend Linda , had been arguing over access for 6 years . |
| 29 | The squadron has been preparing for action for the past 2 weeks . |
| 30 | ‘ We 've been preparing for war for ages . |