Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [pron] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sitting in her window , she commanded a good view of the vicarage garden and of the ‘ object ’ whose identity had been puzzling her for some days now . |
| 2 | I have been using it for some years and encourage my junior staff to do the same . |
| 3 | All the way home , pedalling furiously , she had been nerving herself for this confrontation . |
| 4 | But if Mr Menzies had thought of this he must have been keeping it for another Sunday . |
| 5 | Ludens was by now , in an ordinary sense , more used to being with Marcus , less afraid of ‘ saying the wrong thing ’ , and had resolved today to ask a crude question which had been troubling him for some time . |
| 6 | Charlton confessed : ‘ This one has been troubling me for some time . |
| 7 | I WOULD like to post a question that has been troubling me for some time . |
| 8 | With such a clear need to understand power , why has it , until recently , been avoided by managerial researchers , especially when sociologists have been analysing it for more than a century ? |
| 9 | It was ten o'clock and she had been ignoring it for half an hour . |
| 10 | For I appear to be going round in circles in answer to a question which has been worrying me for some time . |
| 11 | Something else about the chimney-breast , I realize , has been worrying me for some time now . |
| 12 | She said , ‘ Because I 've been feeding you for all these years and buying your shoes and your clothes ! ’ |
| 13 | He had been monopolising her for most of the evening , or trying to , and she was growing less and less happy about it . |
| 14 | Platt said : ‘ It has been niggling me for some time and , although it is nothing serious , it has been decided to sort it out sooner rather than later . ’ |
| 15 | She has n't heard Alina walking across the terrace , and has n't even been expecting her for another half-hour . |
| 16 | Tulagai was flushed and it was apparent that Jotan had been baiting him for some time . |
| 17 | I , I think most people would feel , we 've been doing it for such a while |
| 18 | I mean I 've been doing it for such a long time now it 's important to me to go on doing it , but then that might be rather like it 's important for you to go on doing physics , is n't it ? |
| 19 | Have you been doing it for many years ? |
| 20 | To start with , you might have to go through the whole exercise in order to relax again but , once you have been doing it for some time , you will find that all you need to do is to picture your own peaceful scene and , because the link is permanently there in your subconscious mind , you will immediately begin to feel more peaceful , both mentally and physically . |
| 21 | IBM Corp has been doing it for some time , and now Wordperfect Corp is doing it too — applying for patents on their software rather than relying copyright law : reason is that , as the Wall Street Journal explains , a patent can provide a company with exclusive use of its patented programs for a fixed number of years , even if another company develops the idea independently ; copyright , which is created as soon as an idea is expressed in an original way , protects only the expression of the idea , not the idea itself , and it does n't confer exclusive use if someone else develops the same software independently ; downside is that getting a patent costs big — in both time and money — and once it expires , the technology it describes is free for all . |
| 22 | They 've been doing it for some time at the Biro , Perth is |
| 23 | And those of yo you who 've been doing it for some time will now realise how easy it has made the momegiture . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been doing it for some time , have n't I , love ? ’ |
| 25 | So , NME , you 've reached 40 and I 've been reading you for more than half that time . |
| 26 | I had been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , he typed , as Harsnet had written . |
| 27 | That is why , wrote Harsnet , I have been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , that is why I have cleared the decks and prepared the ground , because unless the decks are cleared and the g round prepared there is little hope of succeeding in what one has planned to do , little hope of achieving anything of lasting value , though lasting is a relative term and so is value and whatever it is one has planned to do is certain to be altered in the process , which does not of course mean , he wrote , that one can start anywhere at any time . |
| 28 | All my life , he wrote , I have been preparing myself for this moment , but if I have prepared myself correctly then it is so that when the moment came I should not be encumbered with the sensation of having waited for it all my life , for such a sensation , wrote Harsnet , is too heavy a burden for anyone to carry . |
| 29 | I have been preparing myself for this for the whole of my life , he wrote . |
| 30 | You should be able to solve some problems that have been bothering you for some time , especially those connected with your work . |