Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] been [v-ing] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been playing slide for years and I found myself in a blues band . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I had been seeing Jessica for twelve months before she admitted to herself that her lover would never come back . |
| 4 | I had been freelancing reviews for NME , but always sent them by post , when the very nice man at Sounds poached me to go and do nice juicy features . |
| 5 | It was a process which had been gathering momentum for some time and has continued since . |
| 6 | ‘ She 'd been taking hush-money for the last ten years . ’ |
| 7 | It is a work that could have been written by a man who 'd been writing operas for twenty years and it introduced me to Ben 's remarkable sense of theatre . |
| 8 | She had been undergoing treatment for over six months now . |
| 9 | I have never known anyone work like it — and I discovered today that she had been writing articles for the Clarion Cry at midnight on top of everything else she did in the house . |
| 10 | Doreen Copas had to be reminded that she had been teaching Medau for all of 25 years by her Herts and Cambs colleagues and class members ; they presented her with a generous gift of garden tokens on the occasion of the Westhampstead Rally . |
| 11 | She had been cooking rice for supper . |
| 12 | Twenty patients who had been taking NSAIDs for more than six months underwent a screening phase and all 13 with NSAID enteropathy were recruited to the study . |
| 13 | My first contact with Todd , was through a teacher in the program who had been providing catechesis for Todd . |
| 14 | Another recent item in he BMJ ( vol 284 , p 791 ) , for example , concerned an unhappy lady who had been drinking Dettol for at least 10 years in order to ‘ purify ’ herself . |
| 15 | As in the first survey , over 90 per cent of the opioid users attending Wirral 's main treatment facilities in 1985–6 were daily users of heroin , who had been using heroin for between six months and five years . |
| 16 | Alcalde , who had been awaiting trial for supplying operational information to ETA , had contested the general election from prison ; he was not elected , but on the assassination of Muguruza automatically became his successor . |
| 17 | Fox set up New World Pictures to make British films , and Columbia Pictures engaged Irving Asher , who had been making quickies for Warners , to initiate a production programme that led to such interesting pictures as The Spy in Black ( 1938 , U-Boat 29 in US ) and Q Planes ( 1939 , Clouds Over Europe in US ) , both of which tapped into contemporary anxieties about the prospect of war . |
| 18 | We 'd been providing cover for the convoy , when a vehicle went over a land mine . |
| 19 | We had been exchanging enthusiasms for Italian opera and I was enticed by his collection of Caruso recordings . |
| 20 | In recent years there had been growing calls for a reform of the federal system of government , which it was argued led to costly duplication between federal , state and territorial authorities . |
| 21 | There had been growing demands for Yeltsin to resign as Prime Minister . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | said they 'd been recording things for her wanting to see what she does see when she 's old . |
| 24 | At the Court of Appeal today , Rachael 's solicitor explained that he 'd been frightened of losing the children , and that for several weeks before the killing he 'd been taking medication for depression . |
| 25 | He 'd been receiving treatment for depression and friends believe he committed suicide . |
| 26 | It had been losing money for 3 years . |
| 27 | Lewis began his Narnia stories for children in 1949 , but he had been publishing fiction for adults since Out of the Silent Planet ( 1938 ) , a mixture of space-fiction and theology that he was soon to extend into a trilogy , ending with That Hideous Strength ( 1945 ) . |
| 28 | There were 23 other pairs — all younger and all seeming to possess the speed of Linford Christie around the court — and , when my partner greeted me with the news that he had been undergoing physiotherapy for a dodgy back all week , I felt that our interest would be peripheral , to say the least . |
| 29 | I have been following with interest the Gardeners ' World programmes where Nigel Colborn had been designing a new garden , especially when he had been using plants for the shady corner . |
| 30 | James told magistrates that he had been using speed for about five years and injected himself three or four times a month . |