Example sentences of "been [verb] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been cooking rice for supper . |
| 2 | You , you , you 've all hea heard of Marie Curie , famous erm scientist who pioneered a lot of the work on radioactivity in the early part of this century and the last part of the last century she in fact was Polish , lived in , in , in Paris , married a French man called Pierre er hence she 's known as Marie Curie well Pierre Curie was also a scientist and he was er baffled by the affect that , th the fact that there did n't seem to be any biological affects er certainly the doses of radiation that , that they were , they were getting they 'd handled tons and tons of pitchblende , that 's radioactive ore they extracted several grammes of radium from it , they 'd been handling stuff for years they were n't ill , they obviously had n't died and so on . |
| 3 | ‘ But South Africa are a much better team than they 've been given credit for , and they are getting better with every match . |
| 4 | Well , he was more interested than he has been given credit for , and he had a wonderful collection of eighteenth-century English books which he gave to Trinity College , Cambridge . |
| 5 | A clutch of companies involved in technology from the Soviet space programmes has been given permission for the first time to deal direct with foreigners . |
| 6 | JLM Projects Ltd have been given permission for a plan to build four houses on the site of a former Mission Church at Moor Crescent in Ludworth . |
| 7 | For instance , the chairman of an Italian company that Morton acquired in the 1970s has been given responsibility for adhesives throughout the region . |
| 8 | Vista Chemical , the American subsidiary of the German Company RWE-DEA has been given responsibility for the worldwide marketing of linear alkylbenzene . |
| 9 | At Potsdam Mountbatten had been given responsibility for accepting the Japanese surrender south of the 16th parallel . |
| 10 | The government 's Technical Commission had been given responsibility for providing the mechanism for an orderly poll for which 130,000,000 lei ( about US$6,500,000 ) was set aside . |
| 11 | It was reported on June 17 that he had been given responsibility for local government , while other responsibilities were redistributed between deputy premiers . |
| 12 | It was Major Volpi who had been given responsibility for putting up road-blocks and carrying out house-to-house searches . |
| 13 | The Commission has also been given responsibility for developing a broad Community recognised vocational training pass , but this will have to be built upon current activity in this area . |
| 14 | As indicated in UPDATE 1 , the broad subject areas which have been given priority for development during the 1988–89 session are : |
| 15 | Subject headings lists are lists of index terms , normally arranged in alphabetical order , which have been given authority for use in an index , catalogue or database for describing subjects . |
| 16 | Of course the swell has been gathering force for a century or more , since Joseph Thompson first saw ‘ the most peculiar band of men to be found in Africa ‘ . |
| 17 | It was a process which had been gathering momentum for some time and has continued since . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , a working party report urging positive action on equal opportunities by the Scottish Law Society has been gathering dust for more than a year . |
| 19 | James told magistrates that he had been using speed for about five years and injected himself three or four times a month . |
| 20 | As in the first survey , over 90 per cent of the opioid users attending Wirral 's main two facilities for drug users were daily users of heroin , and had been using heroin for between six months and five years . |
| 21 | As in the first survey , over 90 per cent of the opioid users attending Wirral 's main treatment facilities in 1985–6 were daily users of heroin , who had been using heroin for between six months and five years . |
| 22 | Consequently , the sample group had been using heroin for an average of five years when they were interviewed . |
| 23 | Given that most of the interviewee group had been using heroin for between four and five years , most had contacted their GP , and frequently several different GPs , on a number of occasions . |
| 24 | Second , almost three-quarters of these interviewees had been using heroin for two years or less by the start of the prevalence study period . |
| 25 | However , given that users in the hidden sector are slightly younger , and have not been using heroin for as long as the known users , it does seem highly likely that many more of these ‘ hidden ’ users will surface , either because of prosecution , pregnancy , physical illness or their own decision to seek help of some sort . |
| 26 | During that time BP has held a small interest in offshore block 8 and has been designated operator for onshore Cabinda Central block , where operations have been suspended for security reasons . |
| 27 | Perhaps the best known version is Shakespeare 's seven ages of man which is a poetic statement of what had already been received wisdom for centuries and was to remain so for centuries to come . |
| 28 | In closing the hospitals the health authority has been purchasing care for those people that let you care for them in a variety of settings and support . |
| 29 | Er , it started in eighteen fifty six , had been currying leather for the saddlery trade all those years and it was then a subsidiary to and was making saddlery leather for them , but in addition , quite a large production of fancy leather for the local light leather goods trade . |
| 30 | The point was that the plaintiffs ' interest in Jarrad exceeded their interest in Jesner , and they contended that the object of Jarrad had been to provide money for the family and not to have its assets syphoned off to prop up Jesner . |