Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [adv] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 2 | Well it maybe , you see I 've had this , this has been hanging around for a month |
| 3 | This has been hanging about for a long , long time while I 've been on this and these people and they 're very special people I 've got this sword of hanging over my head . |
| 4 | I raised with David Ingram at my JAR a matter which I 've been mulling over for a while , arising from my role as Welfare Officer . |
| 5 | The young Robert Zimmerman had changed his name to Bob Dylan and had been wailing away for a couple of years or so , and Nicholson was among the first of his fans who listened to and studied the words of his anti-establishment anthems , ‘ The Times , They Are A-Changin ’ and his ‘ Mr Tambourine Man ’ which was a taunting , haunting song with a very hard edge that white middle-class youth took to be an ode to a dope dealer , which Dylan denied . |
| 6 | He knew this was something that had been happening slowly for a long time , something that had to happen or he was lost , but it was such a brittle structure they were building , one word would topple it , shatter it , one word would be enough to jerk them back into that ordinary daylight where nothing could be changed or righted , nothing could unravel . |
| 7 | You 've been mooning about for a few weeks , ’ she chuckled , ruefully . |
| 8 | Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age . |
| 9 | Pamela and he had been living together for a while and , until recently , Jimmy had been close to a happiness previously denied him ; both as lover and as surrogate father . |
| 10 | Larry and Tina have been living together for a year . |
| 11 | I 've been wandering round for an hour swearing at everbody and everything . |
| 12 | as if she 'd been waiting outside for a convenient pause in their conversation , the vaporeuse knocked on the door and opened it . |
| 13 | DHA 1 has been waiting patiently for a new DGH for 25 years . |
| 14 | Musicians have been waiting impatiently for an application to read printed musical scores and convert them into MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface files for output on keyboards and synthesisers . |
| 15 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 16 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 18 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 19 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
| 20 | It is part of a rather complicated arrangement that has been going on for a few years now . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
| 22 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
| 23 | ‘ These stories have been going round for a long time , and they grow with the telling . ’ |
| 24 | I was sorry for Jennifer but they had only been going out for a month or so , and not terribly seriously . |
| 25 | This , like the argument about human progress , suggests that the universe can have been going only for a finite time . |
| 26 | You might say that this thing had been brewing up for a long time , that the threat was there ; they had n't seen it . |
| 27 | East Belfast-based midfielder Keery ( 28 ) has been holding out for a better deal than the one on offer . |
| 28 | Social anthropologists can and do study members of their own society and they have been doing so for a long time , though mostly they do not do it very well . |
| 29 | I mean that people like , you know , have said that the British secret intelligence have been have been doing now for a quite long time have been waging a sort of undercover war and er I 'm sure some of it 's true |
| 30 | We 've been humping away for a whole two and a half pages . |