Example sentences of "been [v-ing] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And just in case any men out there still need to be convinced that cleanliness is next to Robert Redfordness , how about the tale of a friend of mine who was desperate to impress a woman he had been pursuing for weeks . |
| 2 | To some degree they had already been catering for children with special needs . |
| 3 | This gives the guitarist the same facility for storing and recalling a library of sounds that keyboard players have been enjoying for years . |
| 4 | Below them , a large group of human subjects had been circling for hours around a roller rink set among the trees . |
| 5 | Disabled people from all over the country have been competing for honours in a carriage driving contest . |
| 6 | She woke early on the morning of July 29 , 1981 which is not surprising as her room overlooked the Mall where the singing , chattering crowds had been gathering for days . |
| 7 | ‘ We 've been struggling for years . |
| 8 | We have been struggling for years with an inadequate meat hygiene inspection system and we need , as soon as possible , to replace it with a centralised system that will guarantee high standards and uniform costs . |
| 9 | For instance having retired to this lovely English village , and assembled my wits and memories to compile this narrative , I have had the satisfaction recently of discovering the original meaning of three common expressions which I have been using for years . |
| 10 | Don had been experimenting for years before he took out the patent in 1970 and significantly stated that ‘ The difference in camber and relative incidence on the central fore and aft sections serves to stabilise the kite in pitch ’ . |
| 11 | People are realising what particularly the Belfast group has been preaching for years , that early availability of resuscitation is tremendously important . |
| 12 | I reckon I been walking for hours now . |
| 13 | I reckon I should nearly be home by now — I been walking for ages . |
| 14 | And proud too , cos blimey , I been walking for ages and when I get back home she 'll think I been real clever to find my own way back , and I ai n't got a yellow card or nothing . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been knocking for ages and all ye do is laugh up at me . ’ |
| 16 | The first is that some cricketers have been cheating for years in a most blatant manner . |
| 17 | It never occurred to me that anyone who had been starving for years would feel an incredible , overwhelming urge to eat that was both physical and emotional . |
| 18 | Two district councils , Angus and Cumnock & Doon Valley , have already been pressing for changes and the committee was told that many other authorities were experiencing disadvantages because of the rule . |
| 19 | But Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown , who has been pressing for CUTS in interest rates , said the rise was ‘ disastrous . ’ |
| 20 | Professor Alex McDougall , convener of the institute 's VAT sub-committee , said ICAS had been pressing for Customs and Excise and the VAT tribunal to have to power to mitigate penalties . |
| 21 | Authorities ranging from North Yorkshire to Dorset have been pressing for funds to convert existing boys ' attendance centres into mixed facilities . |
| 22 | She did n't know if they had been driving for minutes or days . |
| 23 | ‘ He must have been driving for hours . ’ |
| 24 | He 'd been driving for days , he 'd forgotten how many , and he was tired of the white lines painted down the middle of the highway , he was tired to the centre of his bones . |
| 25 | You might have been driving for years by going over the top of the wheel as a lot of lorry drivers do . |
| 26 | And she passed with flying colours She 's been driving for years apparently but she had to take a test . |
| 27 | ‘ This thing has been smouldering for years and now it 's finally broken through . |
| 28 | Lesley saw it more as a letting-off of repressed energy : ‘ I think this thing has been smouldering for years and now it 's finally broken through . |
| 29 | Repeated doses of bad news from the front generated mounting criticism of government incompetence ; ministerial confidence was visibly shaken ; and discontent which had been smouldering for years burst into flame . |
| 30 | A lot of people started handing in pellet guns and antique muzzle-loaders they 've been keeping for years without a licence . |