Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [v-ing] [pers pn] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has been doing it for three years and expects to be working on it for at least another three . |
| 2 | But it is seldom given as good an excuse for playing rough as it was this week by the blunder of the guerrilla force that has been fighting it for 23 years in Namibia and by the embarrassing unreadiness of the United Nations peacekeeping force to do its job of supervising the Namibian peace settlement . |
| 3 | And I 'd been paying it for two years then |
| 4 | I 'd been doing it for five years . |
| 5 | Investigators belatedly found that the head of the bank , 35-year old Robert Gravier , had been bilking it for millions . |
| 6 | Later on in my undergraduate career I was lucky enough to be given some teaching by Dr Douglas Ross , consultant in Glasgow , and had personal experience of the efficacy of homoeopathy when he cured the gingivitis ( inflammation of the gums ) which had been plaguing me for three weeks with a homoeopathic preparation of mercury . |
| 7 | After eight weeks and a few x-rays , for which he staggered across his box ( we had borrowed an extension lead by this time ) , I was finally able to get the farrier to take Copper 's shoes off , as he had been wearing them for ten weeks . |
| 8 | ‘ I realised I had been watching them for 15 minutes . |
| 9 | They 've been hiring us for ten years but we , we ai n't gon na hire no more if they 're changing the bloody engines . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been taking it for two and a half years . |
| 11 | I 've been seeing her for 3 and a half years . |
| 12 | I 've been seeing her for three years . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been chasing you for eight miles . |
| 14 | After the infamous Mike Gatting-Shakoor Rana row in 1987 , Graveney , 65 , said of Pakistan : ‘ They 've been cheating us for 37 years and it is just getting worse and worse . ’ |
| 15 | They 've been making them for 30 years . |
| 16 | Keith goes on : ‘ We 've been doing it for three or four months now and the only problem was when somebody tripped running to the B stage , fell down and scraped their elbow ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It 's O.K. , I 've been selling them for twelve , I think I 've got the knack ’ I said . |
| 18 | I 've been doin' it for thirty years , since old Doyle died . |
| 19 | I gather you have been chasing them for two weeks for their time . |
| 20 | I have been growing them for ten years , and for the past two years I have been hybridising . |
| 21 | And I 'll tell you right now that unless you listen to the people that have been doing it for twenty years , in other words you do n't make appointments to go and see people to talk about |
| 22 | The latest flare-up between the two countries — following last summer 's ball-tampering claims and counter-claims — is a direct result of Graveney 's remarks following the infamous Mike Gatting-Shakoor Rana row in 1987 , when he said : ‘ They have been cheating us for 37 years and it is just getting worse and worse . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Philosophers have been pondering it for thousands of years . ’ |
| 24 | She 's been collecting them for twenty five years , and now keeps more than five hundred at her home in Woodchester . |
| 25 | Tom 's been doing it for 18 years . |
| 26 | He 's been doing it for three years now . |
| 27 | He 's been doing it for twenty years |
| 28 | She 's been doing it for twenty days . |
| 29 | He 's been doin' it for forty years . |