Example sentences of "[verb] been [v-ing] [pers pn] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I 've been seeing her for three years . ’ |
| 32 | ‘ I 've been chasing you for eight miles . |
| 33 | 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 . ’ |
| 34 | They 've been making them for 30 years . |
| 35 | I , I think most people would feel , we 've been doing it for such a while |
| 36 | I mean I 've been doing it for such a long time now it 's important to me to go on doing it , but then that might be rather like it 's important for you to go on doing physics , is n't it ? |
| 37 | 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 ! ’ |
| 38 | They 've been doing it for some time at the Biro , Perth is |
| 39 | And those of yo you who 've been doing it for some time will now realise how easy it has made the momegiture . |
| 40 | ‘ I 've been doing it for some time , have n't I , love ? ’ |
| 41 | ‘ It 's O.K. , I 've been selling them for twelve , I think I 've got the knack ’ I said . |
| 42 | I 've been doin' it for thirty years , since old Doyle died . |
| 43 | You should be able to solve some problems that have been bothering you for some time , especially those connected with your work . |
| 44 | I gather you have been chasing them for two weeks for their time . |
| 45 | I have been using it for some years and encourage my junior staff to do the same . |
| 46 | I have been watching him for some weeks , and I accuse him publicly — before the whole school ! ’ |
| 47 | ‘ It might surprise you , Hans , but I have been watching you for some time now . |
| 48 | We have been planning it for more than a year . |
| 49 | I have been growing them for ten years , and for the past two years I have been hybridising . |
| 50 | Cohse branch secretary at Greenbank Sheila Bowes said : ‘ Nurses do n't want this move but management have been contemplating it for some time . ’ |
| 51 | With such a clear need to understand power , why has it , until recently , been avoided by managerial researchers , especially when sociologists have been analysing it for more than a century ? |
| 52 | 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 |
| 53 | To start with , you might have to go through the whole exercise in order to relax again but , once you have been doing it for some time , you will find that all you need to do is to picture your own peaceful scene and , because the link is permanently there in your subconscious mind , you will immediately begin to feel more peaceful , both mentally and physically . |
| 54 | 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 . ’ |
| 55 | ‘ Philosophers have been pondering it for thousands of years . ’ |
| 56 | Although for some years now people have been suing them for outrageous sums well beyond any amount that could ever be insured , when it came to the crunch litigants always settled out of court for a far lower figure . |
| 57 | She 's been collecting them for twenty five years , and now keeps more than five hundred at her home in Woodchester . |
| 58 | Tom 's been doing it for 18 years . |
| 59 | He 's been doing it for three years now . |
| 60 | He 's been doing it for twenty years |