Example sentences of "been [v-ing] for some " in BNC.
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| 61 | Work towards this goal has been progressing for some time , culminating in a public launch at a major conference , held in the Forum Hotel , Glasgow on 23 October , 1989 . |
| 62 | Richard , of course , had been preparing for some such move . |
| 63 | By the time that came along I had already been playing for some time . |
| 64 | Guests had been arriving for some time , for they had heard cars coming and going , but she had n't met any yet . |
| 65 | And then , after he and Owen had been talking for some while , he crooked his finger and called over the boy who had seen |
| 66 | In practice Anglo-American co-operation had been increasing for some years , but this was now expanded . |
| 67 | ‘ It was only an idea he had , based on the way Robert has been behaving for some time . |
| 68 | Profits had been falling for some years ; investment collapsed suddenly in summer 1974 . |
| 69 | Abingdon 's trade had been waning for some time , with its fulling mills lying in ruins and unemployment rife by 1538 . |
| 70 | He realised they had been watching for some minutes before he noticed them . |
| 71 | She had brushed aside the congratulations of her gynaecologist when he said , ‘ Most women would have been screaming for some kind of relief long before now . ’ |
| 72 | Sir Patrick Mayhew must have been hoping for some winners and losers , as he considers how to kick-start his talks process . |
| 73 | The phone had been ringing for some time . |
| 74 | By the time I was twelve years old I had been thinking for some time about getting a bird of my own . |
| 75 | In fact , he was so happy with the idea that had come to him from the writer , Peter Shaffer , he began the serious rethink of his career which friends like Lance Percival had been thinking for some time was overdue . |
| 76 | If this has been leaking for some time then the transfer box is probably low on oil . |
| 77 | It would have been more usual to have asked her with careful casualness to wait behind after the meeting but what he had to say was private and he had been trying for some weeks now to cut down the number of times when they were known to be alone together . |
| 78 | We 've been trying for some time to employ as many players as possible during the winter , and this sponsorship means that it should be possible to take the worry of finding winter employment away from virtually all of them . |
| 79 | He tried fitfully to proceed with a short prose book on the nature of culture which he had been contemplating for some time , but by the end of 1942 had produced only a first draft of two chapters : this must be the source of the four essays which appeared in the New English Weekly during January and February 1943 under the title , " Notes toward a Definition of Culture " . |
| 80 | Rumours had already been circulating for some time in the movie world that Madonna , whose big new movie will be Body Of Evidence , was discussing a new film with Sr Almodovar . |
| 81 | The Schuman Plan was based on ideas which had been circulating for some time but was devised in detail by Jean Monnet , who was in charge of France 's economic modernisation programme . |
| 82 | Although fitted with an alarm courtesy of the Venice in Peril Fund , this had not been working for some time . |
| 83 | SEL has been working for some two years on producing French versions of GEC 's technical specifications — an enormous project . |
| 84 | It may also have been that the government was unwilling to lend further strength to the clamour for the reform of the Official Secrets Act ( which has now happened ) that had been mounting for some years . |
| 85 | His next move was to Madrid , an upheaval that he and his girlfriend had been planning for some time , and there his photographic education continued apace , despite one or two minor problems . |
| 86 | We 've been feeling for some time that our children are feeling that they 've been left alone , because er when they come to the temple they are too young to understand anything which is being explained from the stage , because er the speakers , or the preachers , have to cater for all the age groups and normally it 's for the , those who understand , already understand about Sikhism . |
| 87 | In the UK , this ideal has been eroding for some time and seems unlikely to survive the escalating costs of current treatments . |