Example sentences of "been [v-ing] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , the fall in unemployment adds something to the theory that the economy has in fact been recovering for a good deal longer than generally realised . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was widely known , however , that China had been pressing for a Japanese imperial visit for some time as a means of marking a further stage in the country 's rehabilitation from the diplomatic isolation which had followed the Tiananmen Square massacre . |
| 5 | The engineering unions have been pressing for a 35-hour working week , but the deal at NEI — a subsidiary of Rolls-Royce — would satisfy their claim for a two-hour reduction in the working week . |
| 6 | He has already been stripped of all his posts , but hardliners had been pressing for a public trial on criminal charges , though this looks unlikely . |
| 7 | Opposition parties had also been pressing for an early poll , especially in view of the poor performance by ANAP in local elections since 1989 [ see p. 36528 ] . |
| 8 | Because of its concerns about the consultants ' figures , convention officials have been pressing for an urgent meeting of a joint Scottish Office-COSLA working party on finance since early February but that has not taken place . |
| 9 | For years before that , however , football enthusiasts in Glasgow had long been agitating for an international match against the deaf footballers of England , without success . |
| 10 | It 's been happening for a few days , but I 've only just realised what it is … |
| 11 | Part of the problem has been the software , which has been looking for a decent hardware platform and waiting for support from a mainstream operating system vendor . |
| 12 | Obviously a tall , long-legged person will need a big horse ; I recently sold a 17.3hh gelding to a man of six foot eight who had been looking for a long time ! |
| 13 | Morgan has been looking for a white knight for the last two weeks since insurance broker Willis Faber announced it was selling its 20 per cent stake in the merchant bank to Banque Indosuez , part of Compagnie Financiere de Suez . |
| 14 | If Philip had been looking for a pale , sickly , ragged and possibly fettered prisoner , Harry would be a considerable shock to him . |
| 15 | And he would ask a few questions , say he 'd been looking for a few hours . |
| 16 | I had been looking for a full-length piece to do anyway and I was also attracted to the idea of working with a ballet company . ’ |
| 17 | The German bank has been looking for a French opening for its global expansion for some time . |
| 18 | Time Warner has been looking for a high-technology partner since 1991 , when it sold smaller stakes in TWE to two Japanese firms , Toshiba and ITOCHU ( then known as C. Itoh ) . |
| 19 | And the car was such a mess nobody would have been looking for a sawn brake cable . ’ |
| 20 | If we 'd been looking for an easy acquaintance with nature , we would have chosen a different landscape : something lusher and more intricate , not this bleak and famished hillside on the Atlantic 's edge . |
| 21 | Jake fingered the paperweight idly as he continued , ‘ It had probably been developing for a few days . |
| 22 | I 've been saving for a long time with Alma |
| 23 | Howard had , after a quick tour of the TARDIS , retired to his office with a brandy bottle he had been saving for a special occasion . |
| 24 | When I was eighteen I came in contact with the Catholic Crusade which was a rather left wing Christian Socialist Organization and I found that their attitude to problems contained the answers for which I had been searching for a good many years tell me when you want me to raise something . |
| 25 | I 've been pushing for a long time but erm down here ? |
| 26 | For years , American X-ray astronomers have been pushing for an Advanced X-ray Astrophysics facility ( AXAF ) which would have better sensitivity and resolution of detail , than all other X-ray telescopes presently planned . |
| 27 | Listen , Bill — the boy 's been training for a few weeks , and it 's time he did some work . |
| 28 | A council that 's been paying for a fourteen-year-old criminal to stay in Spain has been criticised in court . |
| 29 | I 'm sure that if he had said something he never have betrayed the pain he had been guarding for a long time . |
| 30 | ‘ I have been waiting for a long time to get my hands on this one ’ , a review of Nicolson by Kingsley Amis began . |