Example sentences of "[been] [verb] for the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | It endorsed British industry 's achievements under the policies that we have been pursuing for the past 12 years , urged us to continue and build upon them in future and condemned utterly the sort of policies still advocated by the Labour party , which is stuck in a mind-set of the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 2 | I did not tell him that his imitation of the French was far more like what I had been seeing for the past year . |
| 3 | Conversation with Alexei had been limited for the past day to standard matters of duty , and since he had not been able to think of anything which he could say to change his son 's attitude , he had allowed himself to accept that the state of affairs which existed between them was likely to be permanent . |
| 4 | At the end of this campaign it looked at last as if the time of peace had come , when the Council for which Anselm had been pressing for the past four years could be held with royal support . |
| 5 | As far as Kuwait is concerned we 'd like to see our country free again and this gives us the type of hope we have been wanting for the past six months , and I am sure for the people inside Kuwait — because I was there for about three weeks prior to the after the invasion I was there and I had to escape that country . |
| 6 | ‘ We have been threatened for the past three or four years . |
| 7 | Nothing of her true nature , not even — and here Pavel had been holding his breath at the back of the Border Control 's interrogation room — where she 'd been living for the past two years . |
| 8 | ‘ As a matter of fact I 've been living for the past two years with a wonderful man . |
| 9 | The thieves took £80 that 73-year-old Peggy Metcalfe had been saving for the past three months . |
| 10 | It was , after all , a throat infection and he 's been training for the past week . ’ |
| 11 | He 's been waiting for the past half-hour . ’ |
| 12 | This site has been used for the past couple of years without any problems . |
| 13 | NORPLANT gives cover against getting pregnant for up to five years and has been used for the past decade abroad . |
| 14 | Naturally , VI would rather sell X-Designer than enhance rival products , but in the US where X-Designer has only been sold for the past year , rival products have a much stronger hold and the separation of the Graph Widgets enables a toehold into these accounts for the VI sales force . |
| 15 | In France , fetal liver transplantation has been performed for the past 16 years , with encouraging , if preliminary , results . |
| 16 | The second whinnied and moved back a step to graze the spot it had been coveting for the past hour . |
| 17 | Their clothes were an abrasive barrier between them , and her hands were as urgent as his as she peeled off the same black dress she seemed to have been wearing for the past century . |
| 18 | In times of exchange rate volatility , such as we have been experiencing for the past few years , most overseas buyers will want to be invoiced in their own currency and avoid any exchange risk . |
| 19 | Your flat 's been bugged for the past two months . ’ |
| 20 | It ran beside a broad , shaded boulevard of feathery pepper trees , and the sudden sight of European-style buildings made him reflect that the jungles , fields and villages through which they 'd been moving for the past few hours had remained unchanging throughout many centuries . |
| 21 | Political battle-lines have been hardening for the past three weeks . |
| 22 | That was just what I had been doing for the past four months innocent of impending restrictions . |
| 23 | Luckily the washing machine coped as adequately with Ruth 's clothes as it had been doing for the past six years . |
| 24 | One way to give ourselves new heart is to go where books and readers meet , and this is what I have been doing for the past year , working in secondary schools on research funded by the British Library . |
| 25 | ‘ I want to know what you 've been doing for the past four days . ’ |
| 26 | Perhaps my hon. Friend does not know that the Government have just announced that they intend to nationalise the private enterprise operation that I am running , which entails my sending those replies to all Opposition Members — as I have been doing for the past three months — and , this month , to Conservative Members , following an offer made to their Whips some time ago . |
| 27 | ‘ What you 've been doing for the past four months ! |
| 28 | But that was what he 'd been doing for the past several minutes . |
| 29 | In a conventional world , the Chancellor would simply roll his forecasts forward as he has been doing for the past two years now . |
| 30 | It has also been running for the past three weeks against The Free Frenchman , which may turn out to be a turbo-tortoise but which started as the turn off of the week . |