Example sentences of "been [v-ing] for [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sightseers on the banks of the river , who , sensing something afoot , had been gathering for a few hours , dodged about , seeking a view between bushes . |
| 2 | Wait until your baby has been walking for a few weeks before taking her for the first shoe fitting , as toes are crucial in gripping the floor while learning to toddle . |
| 3 | Newley and I have been bidding for the same things for years . ’ |
| 4 | It 's been happening for a few days , but I 've only just realised what it is … |
| 5 | And he would ask a few questions , say he 'd been looking for a few hours . |
| 6 | Jake fingered the paperweight idly as he continued , ‘ It had probably been developing for a few days . |
| 7 | Thornton had been pushing for the same sort of readership , and the two men had another thing in common — they wanted action . |
| 8 | Listen , Bill — the boy 's been training for a few weeks , and it 's time he did some work . |
| 9 | Funny that they 'd both been heading for the same place , though . |
| 10 | Here 's another new model from guy who has been riding for the same big-time company for literally eons . |
| 11 | My ‘ heavenly brother ’ was not a Sasse boy , but from the primary school in nearby Mutengene mission where I had been staying for a few days . |
| 12 | Yes , this is what big shops , particularly in America , have now been doing for a few years , in that the till that takes your order as it were is also a computer terminal on line to large computers somewhere else , and every time your tin of baked bins is checked out by the girl on the till , it is adjusting the stocks on its large computer and saying , ‘ Hey , we 're going to run out of baked beans at approximately ten o'clock tomorrow morning . |
| 13 | The Hagen Biolife filter in our office tank has been running for a few weeks now , and one or two little problems have shown up . |
| 14 | Carole Rue , BT 's network services development manager , said : ‘ Although the trial has only been running for a few weeks we 're most encouraged by the initial response from our customers . |
| 15 | But now I 've been drug-free for over a year erm but I 'd been trying for a few year before that and had nay managed to succeed . |
| 16 | No , not just one day , as I said , I 'd been trying for a few |
| 17 | With sufficient manipulation of the rota , it would be possible to arrange for the work-force to have been working for the same number of hours at different times of the day — condition ( 2 ) . |