Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [v-ing] [noun] for years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone who has been training horses for years once told me that the most important thing is to keep your youngster ‘ thinking forwards ’ . |
| 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 | It 's you know and my pride was getting a little bit dented that I 'd been selling market for years suddenly I was n't doing this . |
| 4 | I 'd been playing slide for years and I found myself in a blues band . |
| 5 | Some readers will have been growing roses for years , others may be starting for the first time from scratch , with no preconceived ideas , pattern or convention to adhere to , and a great many more will be at every stage in between . |
| 6 | The abattoir had been fighting closure for years after increased European competition began to hit . |
| 7 | Heaven knows , I 've been telling people for years , and , strangely , it is n't entirely untrue . |
| 8 | ‘ I have been smoking cigarettes for years . |
| 9 | Many women have been delaying births for years . |