Example sentences of "[pron] have [be] [v-ing] [noun sg] 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 've been taking chlorambucil for six days now and the lumps are diminishing with staggering rapidity . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been selling patchwork for some time now , ’ she went on . |
| 5 | I 've been keeping watch for a week or two . |
| 6 | Dave said : ‘ I have been raising money for charities at Bidds for quite a few years . |
| 7 | The document ignores the debate on curriculum which has been taking place for 20 years . |
| 8 | ‘ We bought the malt extract arm of the Distillers Group which has been making malt for 100 years . |
| 9 | It was a process which had been gathering momentum for some time and has continued since . |
| 10 | Get set for the Kielder Classic , the final race in the Moore Large Series of mountain biking events which have been raising money for Help the Aged throughout the year . |
| 11 | The brave star , who has been battling cancer for four years , admits that she still suffers from terrible stagefright . |
| 12 | Lawrence , who has been playing golf for almost three years , has a handicap of 20 . |
| 13 | ‘ She 'd been taking hush-money for the last ten years . ’ |
| 14 | She had been undergoing treatment for over six months now . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She had been cooking rice for supper . |
| 17 | My first contact with Todd , was through a teacher in the program who had been providing catechesis for Todd . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Gordon 's favours Umbrian juniper berries — and the Scarponis , who have been harvesting juniper for Gordon 's for over 40 years , use their local knowledge to find the very best juniper Umbria can offer . |
| 22 | Are You Listening ? provides extra listening practice for children who have been studying English for a year or two . |
| 23 | We 'd been providing cover for the convoy , when a vehicle went over a land mine . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | THEY 'VE been making room for murder at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre , Guildford this week , and proved that given the right stage , crime certainly does pay . |
| 26 | Tenants in a house at Brockworth near Gloucester , who say they 've been paying rent for six months , barracaded themselves in when they heard they were being evicted because their landlord had defaulted on his mortgage . |
| 27 | Up until today they have been winning praise for the quality of their football but everything seemed to go wrong this afternoon . |
| 28 | Maurice Adams , General Manager of ACET , has recently returned form Uganda where he has been discussing planning for future projects with ACET 's African Director , Anthony Kasozi . |
| 29 | An Irish internationalist at boys and youths level , he has been playing golf for five years . |
| 30 | 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 . |