Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [be] [v-ing] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been cooking for 7 years now , including my school , my cookery school . |
| 2 | ‘ Lucky devil , I 've been trying for eight years and still have n't cracked it yet . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been trying for forty years and the margin of error 's still about eighty per cent . ’ |
| 4 | And I 've been living for seven years ! |
| 5 | Like here in the north of Australia , I 've been waiting for two days for the light I need for a shot of some valleys . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been waiting for two hours . ’ |
| 7 | I 've been waiting for four or five games , so it 's a bit of a relief . ’ |
| 8 | I 've been waiting for forty years for it |
| 9 | ‘ Take my word for it , I 've been going for 30 years since the well was a bucket in a hole in the ground , and there is plenty of water , ’ she said . |
| 10 | I mean , dammit all , Charles has been working for 40 years and I 've been working for 22 ’ ) . |
| 11 | I can do it , but I 've been driving for two and a half years |
| 12 | I 've been playing for ten years and never hit a hole in one before — now I 've hit two . ’ |
| 13 | He says I have been flying for four years . |
| 14 | I have been flying for twenty years and doing aerobatics for ten years , having been taught to fly by my celebrated husband Tim , of Nealey Air Shows , in Chicago . |
| 15 | The trouble is my boyfriend , with whom I have been living for six months , thinks I should use the money to pay off our overdraft . |
| 16 | ‘ I have been going for 18 years and you get fan-tastic value for money , ’ he said . |
| 17 | McNeill said : ‘ I have been waiting for two days for this supposed written offer . |
| 18 | In France , where I have been working for two years , the government understands the need for cultural things . |
| 19 | ‘ I have been working for 19 months and was on the dole for five years before that , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Micropal measures volatility for all unit trusts which have been going for three years . |
| 21 | The single parent building a home on supplementary benefit does n't have the tools acquired by workers who 've been earning for twenty or forty years . |
| 22 | Everything they have in that shop is better than the one you 've been wearing for ten years . |
| 23 | POLICE in Craigavon are searching for two teenage girls who have been missing for five days . |
| 24 | Imagine that you have been studying for 20 years for a qualification that will change your life , or waiting the same length of time to hear about a job you have applied for , the only job you have ever really wanted . |
| 25 | she said ‘ We 've been going for two months with very long hours . ’ |
| 26 | Er , we 've been going for twenty six years er , and we now manage around about three thousand properties and are building er and selling around about seven hundred properties a year for , for rent and low cost home ownership . |
| 27 | Certainly that was Donat 's experience , writing from the set of Perfect Strangers ( 1945 ) : ‘ No script to go on — just a mass of blarney from A. K. Our first complete script arrived five days ago — we have been filming for sixteen weeks ! |
| 28 | Keeping costs under control , managing our finances well and maintaining innovation in our sales approach are just three examples from a number that illustrate how , as a Division , we have been preparing for 1993 . |
| 29 | We have been negotiating for eight years with the Faroese authorities in an effort to get them to stop , without success . |
| 30 | Oxford ca n't grumble they 've been winning for 15 years … its Cambridge 's turn but Oxford will be back on top next year |