Example sentences of "have been lying [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The farmers from this village own land in the Buffer Zone that has been lying fallow for fourteen years , but which is now being opened up . |
| 2 | ‘ But it 's a lot of money for something which has been lying dead for twelve years . ’ |
| 3 | I was in Italy , it was early morning , and I 'd been lying awake for about three hours . |
| 4 | It had been lying empty for months , he said . |
| 5 | Re-rigging the ship for an Antarctic voyage inside of a week , after she had been lying idle for over a year , was quite impossible . |